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

The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for re...

An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that an audience wi...

In cinema, a making-of, also known as behind-the-scenes, the set or on the set is a documentary film that features the production of a fil...

Early in the transition to digital cinematography, the inability of digital video cameras to easily achieve shallow depth of field, due t...

F ilters, such as diffusion filters or color effect filters, are also widely used to enhance mood or dramatic effects. Most photographic f...

A parody also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, caricature, or joke is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an ...

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the German Expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. As soon as Robert ...

Laurel and Hardy were a motion picture comedy team whose official filmography consists of 106 films released from 1921 and 1951. Together ...

I n music, a medley is a piece composed from parts of existing pieces, usually three, played one after another, sometimes overlapping. The...

What are ASMR Videos? For a trend so wildly popular, you probably haven’t heard of it. ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Respons...

The cinematographer selects the camera, film stock, lenses, filters, etc., to realize the scene in accordance with the intentions of the d...

If the position of a body is not changing with respect to a given frame of reference (reference point), the body is said to be at rest, m...

Mood is generally created through several different things. Setting, which provides the physical location of the story, is used in order t...

A point of view shot (also known as POV shot, first-person shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a charact...

The Shipping House (Dutch: Scheepvaarthuis) is a building on the western tip of the Waalseiland near Amsterdam harbour that is one of the ...

William Kentridge - 10 Drawings for Projection William Kentridge (Johannesburg, 1955) studied political science and African Studies. Kent...

De Blauwe Schuit was a medieval company that expressed itself in irony and reversal. Sometimes the name is written as 'Blauwe Schuyt...

Widescreen images are images that are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) that is used in film...

The parade float got its name because the first floats were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade march...

The Basilica church of St. Ursula . It is built upon the ancient ruins of a Roman cemetery, where the 11,000 virgins associated with th...

Combined with the Internet and personal computing, digital media has caused disruptive innovation in publishing, journalism, public relati...

An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other de...

Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a...

In film editing, video editing and post production, screen direction is the direction that actors or objects appear to be moving on the sc...

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...

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

In Germany's mainly Catholic cities along the Rhine, Carnival is something altogether different. Here it's so bound up with the...

The title is sometimes translated as burgomaster, to emphasize the appointed, rather than elected, nature of the office. The appointment p...

Montage theory, in its rudimentary form, asserts that a series of connected images allows for complex ideas to be extracted from a sequenc...

Amsterdamned is a 1988 Dutch horror film directed and written by Dick Maas, and stars Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, and Serge-Henri Val...

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury At almost any time of day, Gold Hill is a magnet for photographers, visitors and loc...

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

Collage made from photographs, or parts of photographs, is called photomontage. Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a comp...

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concen...

The setup of stage lighting is tailored for each scene of each production. Dimmers, colored filters, reflectors, lenses, motorized or manu...

Two of the most interesting yet unknown amateur filmmakers of the Thirties are Harry Wright and his younger brother, Samuel Bolling. The W...

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of a...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a speci...

A discussion panel at the Davos World Economic Forum has become a sensation after a Dutch historian took billionaires to task for not payi...

The Odessa steps The best-known sequence of the film is set on the Odessa steps, connecting the waterfront with the central city. The citi...

  In this case, the inspiration is M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch artist who explored a wide range of mathematical ideas with his wood...

Screens specifically designed for use in video walls usually have narrow bezels in order to minimize the gap between active display areas,...

Home slide shows were a relatively common phenomenon in middle-class American homes during the 1950s and 1960s. If there was an enthusias...

United Nations In February 2018, OCHA (the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations) issued a report on...

Cinema newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented. Halfweg contains the last steam pumping station in the Netherla...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a sp...

Stan & Ollie is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jon S. Baird from a screenplay by Jeff Pope. Based on the lives of ...

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. The concept is often used interchangeably with that of film re...

  A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or chor...