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

French inventor Henri Chrétien developed and patented a new film process that he called Anamorphoscope in 1926. It was this process that w...

In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Film shots are an essentia...

The Amsterdam coronation riots (Dutch: Kroningsoproer) refers to major violence and rioting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on the day of th...

Traditionally, films were recorded onto celluloid film through a photochemical process and then shown through a movie projector onto a lar...

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

De Bont was born in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His earliest work after studying at the Amsterdam Film Academy was with the Dutch avant gard...

Although usually more expensive than film projectors, high-resolution digital projectors offer many advantages over traditional film units...

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be cap...

The focus pull is useful for directing the viewer's attention. For example, if there are two people in shot but only one is in focus, ...

White balance basically means colour balance. It is a function which gives the camera a reference to "true white" — it tells th...

Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film under its own brand in the early 1990s, but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via...

An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available un...

The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentati...

White balance On digital cameras, electronic compensation for the color temperature associated with a given set of lighting conditions, e...

Projectors can be roughly divided into three categories, based on the type of input. Some of the listed projectors were capable of project...

Loops are short sections of tracks (probably between one and four bars in length), which you believe might work being repeated." A l...

The city of Avallon, "ABALLO" in the Celtic world, is located in the heart of Burgundy. Perched on its granite spur, it dominat...

The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign ...

CUTAWAYS In a cutaway, you simply leave the main action for a brief scene to film something else that's related to your movie. In the...

White balance basically means colour balance. It is a function which gives the camera a reference to "true white" — it tells the...

The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather tha...

Digitization, less commonly digitalization, is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format, in ...

30-degree rule A basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject between suc...

DUNE by Studio Roosegaarde is a public interactive landscape that interacts with human behavior. This hybrid of nature and technology i...

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...

For the Eye Museum in Amsterdam, we were asked to make a teaser that displays the many things the Eye has in its collection. We chose to...

A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematography, t...

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

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

The earliest films were simply one static shot that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques. Around the tu...

Jean Desmet was one of the largest film entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and he documented and saved almost everything that had to do with...

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

The Netherlands. The first island was inaugurated on 24 September 2016. Work on the first phase, which is mainly focused on the constru...

Roel Reine was born in The Netherlands, and with his first theatrical feature 'The Delivery' he won The Golden Calf for Best Direc...

Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a theatre or film production, which essentially means "visual th...

    Click on the arrows to get the full 360 degree experience. I felt as impressed as everyone else did when I saw my first 360-degree ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, ...

Dubbing, mixing, or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementary...

A Film by Yasujiro Ozu. The finest film ever made. Listed at #1 in Halliwell's Top 1000 countdown of the world's best cinema, and ...

    In the warehouses of the former shipyards in Nantes, the Machines of the Isle is created by two artists, François Delarozière (La Machin...

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

Watching, co-suffering, is a choice. You can also look away believe me: you are looking at it completely powerless. A train passes behind ...

One-point perspective A drawing has one-point perspective when it contains only one vanishing point on the horizon line. This type of pe...

Charlie Chaplin was an actor and filmmaker committed to his craft--a perfectionist, in short. When directing City Lights (1931), Chaplin ...

Jean Desmet was a pioneering film distributor and theatre owner in the Netherlands. The Desmet Collection consists of films, posters, s...

An interview is a conversation where questions are asked and answers are given.[1] In common parlance, the word "interview" refe...

In combination with other aspects, theatrical costumes can help actors portray characters' age, gender role, profession, social class,...

To make a film all you need is a girl and a gun.” Jean-Luc Godard’s oft-quoted line might have come from the mouth of any tough-talking, A...