Amateur-Film and Home-Video, Tips and Information from C'est leToon

Urk is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Urk is first mentioned in historical records dat...

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses actors and actresses instead of animation or animated pictures. Live act...

The advent of the microcomputer and digital photography has led to the rise of digital prints. These prints are created from stored graph...

A new electric ferry is lounched at the quai of the IJ river in Amsterdam and at the same time a tallship is sailing by. The latter is on...

David Lynch on Where Great Ideas Come From Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created...

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910...

The narrator is, within any story, the fictional or non-fictional, personal or impersonal entity who tells the story to the audience. When...

Zombies are fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected human beings. They are commonly portrayed as...

In filmmaking and video production, footage is raw, unedited material as originally filmed by a movie camera or recorded by a video camer...

Pigeon photography is an aerial photography technique invented in 1907 by the German apothecary Julius Neubronner, who also used pigeons...

It takes a lot of energy to shoot a travel documentary. There are many things to worry about.The production process of travel documentarie...

In media and advertising, nostalgia-evoking images, sounds, and references can be used strategically to create a sense of connectedness be...

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruc...

The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Denmark during the Black ...

A step outline (more commonly called a beat sheet) is a detailed telling of a story with the intention of turning the story into a screenp...

A weir may be used to trap marine fish in the intertidal zone as the tide recedes, fish such as salmon as they attempt to swim upstream to...

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past tim...

Video poetry is a wide-ranging category where very different typologies of works converge. Some video poetry works use digital elaboration...

Both in the United States and Europe, the idea of children's films began to gain relative prominence in the 1930s. The term "fam...

A film essay (or "cinematic essay") consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film lit...

The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber, some 30 kilometres to the west of Rome. The sh...

The peplum film (pepla plural), also known as sword-and-sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or Biblical epics (costume d...

Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications. User-generated content, such as text posts or comments, digital photos...

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that ...

The Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East-Indies; Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) was a Dutch colony consisting ...

An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list o...

During the First World War, the Antwerp zoo was in great difficulty. Animals died due to food shortages and bombing. Fewer and fewer visi...

    Following the demise of the studio system and the loss of the sound director, part of this role was delegated to the post-production s...

Camera coverage, in filmmaking and video production, is the amount of footage shot and different camera angles used to capture a scene. Wh...

Types of soundtrack recordings include: Musical film soundtracks are for the film versions of musical theatre; they concentrate primari...

Schmelzdahin Jochen Lempert (b 1958), Jochen Müller (b 1959), Jürgen Reble (b 1956) –group founded in 1979; experimental film research i...

A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world) and its first presentation i...

    In motion picture and television production, a sound effect is a sound recorded and presented to make a specific storytelling or creativ...

The Photo Filter adjustment mimics the technique of placing a colored filter in front of the camera lens to adjust the color balance and c...

Although camera movements are often implemented to add excitement to shots, their best use is when new information is revealed. At the b...

Teaser WAD; Overleven op de grens van water en land. from Ruben Smit Productions on Vimeo . A film that portrays the ecosystem like ne...

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning...

Motion graphics are pieces of digital footage or animation which create the illusion of motion or rotation, and are usually combined with ...

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. ...

The camera angle marks the specific location at which the movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from ...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the s...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used ...

Montage is the technique by which separate pieces of film are selected, edited, and then pieced together to make a new section of film. A ...

In motion picture film production, cinematography and video production, a reaction shot is a shot which cuts away from the main scene in o...

Before the camera stabilizing system, a director had two choices for moving (or "tracking") shots: The camera could be mounted...

An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list ...

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb ...

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It ...