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

  In the production of photographic prints, spotting is a type of retouching flaws in the finished print with specially made paints, dyes,...

  We find ourselves, still early in the 21st century, in an unprecedented era in the history of photography. The consumers of the developed...

In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some p...

Posting intentionally unattractive selfies has also become common in the early 2010s—in part for their humor value, but in some cases also...

A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or ...

An event movie is a film whose release itself is considered a major event, such as an anticipated sequel or a big budget film with major s...

    World cinema is not the sum-total of all films made around the world. Its use is analogous to the use of the term "world literatu...

; In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another ch...

We are in the Amsterdam Museum to view the exhibition 'The Most Beautiful City', which was compiled by Mayor Eberhard van der Laan...

The concept of orphan films acquired an academic and creative entity in the 1990s from new approaches to managing film archives. At that t...

Cinematography finds uses in many fields of science and business as well as for entertainment purposes and mass communication. The word ...

In April 1896, just four months after the first films were shown in Paris, the first cinematic apparatus appeared in Russia. The first fil...

In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to ...

The "four walls" system of film production (also known as the "four wall system") refers to a system whereby a film pr...

Photomicrograph A light micrograph or photomicrograph is a micrograph prepared using an optical microscope, a process referred to as ph...

A web series is a series of scripted or non-scripted videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet and part of the web tele...

The first flexible photographic roll film was marketed by George Eastman in 1885, but this original "film" was actually a coati...

Follow shot is a specific camera angle in which the subject being filmed is seemingly pursued by the camera, for example by a Steadica...

A man lifts a big black thing out of a closet, there is a composite girl, and there are creatures in the forest. Eye presents new work by...

A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, film...

A recent study from BBC Earth and UC-Berkeley has shown that watching nature documentaries can inspire "significant increases in feel...

Development of film In this stage, the project producer selects a story, which may come from a book, play, another film, true story, vide...

In film, an insert is a shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from the master shot. Inserts cover a...

Most early forms of motion pictures or film were black and white. Some color film processes, including hand coloring were experimented wit...

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or ...

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...