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

A journey to create a confetti-sprinkled world of color and sensation that’s unlike anywhere else. A unique immersive experience designed ...

Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. E...

This is what you can do at the BroekerVeiling Auctioning seasonal vegetables, taking a boat trip or renting your own, walk over the muse...

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

In film making, the 180-degree rule1 is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another cha...

The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage - 27 October - is key initiative for both UNESCO and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archiv...

  Cinephilia also cinemaphilia or filmophilia is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film critici...

Principal photography is the phase of film production in which the bulk of the movie is filmed, with actors on set and cameras rolling, a...

A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mix...

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivat...

In the early 1950s, the proliferation of black-and-white television started seriously depressing North American theater attendance.  I...

Sustainable tourism enterprises link livelihoods and conservation. Many African economies depend on tourists flocking to iconic national...

  Work hard, play by the rules, and you’ll go as far as your talents will take you. Right? But so often this isn’t how the system works. In ...

Trijntje Keever was born in Edam on April 16, 1616, as Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever. Already at a young age she grew like cabbage. Trij...

COMPOSITION Composing your scenes carefully in the viewfinder enhances the quality of your movies. You're already far ahead of the g...

It's one of cinema's greatest ironies that editing can make or break a film, but few moviegoers understand what an editor actually...

  In psychology , a mood is an affective state. In contrast to emotions or feelings , moods are less specific, less intense and less like...

Nostalgia's definition has changed greatly over time.The modern view is that nostalgia is an independent, and even positive, emotion t...

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

The films were shot on a very large format that was quickly outdated, but which yielded spectacularly beautiful images: 68mm. Apart from t...

Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch director, screenwriter and film producer. Active in both the Netherlands and Hollywood, Verhoeven's blending...

In the 1920s, the development of electronic sound recording technologies made it practical to incorporate a soundtrack of speech, music an...

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on...

Blip (formerly blip.tv) was an American media platform for web series content and also offered a dashboard for producers of original web ...

360-degree videos, also known as immersive videos[1] or spherical videos,[2] are video recordings where a view in every direction is reco...

Through the Internet, every person is given the opportunity to participate in different ways. The Internet gives people a platform to wri...

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in th...

The making and showing of motion pictures became a source of profit almost as soon as the process was invented. Upon seeing how successful...

Culture is considered a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning ...

Storyboards used for planning advertising campaigns such as corporate video production, commercials, a proposal or other business present...

Gurgaon, officially named Gurugram, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi-Haryana borde...

Cinema of Turkey, also known as Yeşilçam (literally means The Green Pine in Turkish language) , is the sobriquet that refers to the Turkis...

Creative geography, or artificial landscape, is a film making technique invented by the early Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov sometime arou...

Is Internet Addiction Real? According to the National Library of Medicine, internet addiction is a uncontrollable, compulsive, harmful, ...

Mise-en-scène (French pronunciation: ​[miz.ɑ̃.sɛn] "placing on stage") is an expression used to describe the design aspect of a ...

An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character...

  A Talk with Hitchcock, the great director demonstrates one of the most fundamental tools at a filmmaker's disposal: the Kuleshov eff...

  One of the most difficult problems that art directors face is to translate desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas i...

Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the nex...

There are productions that are best done on tape and there are productions best done on film. News and sports, special events like varie...

Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjec...

Time-lapse photography is an interesting technique that records a scene or objects that has a slow state-of-change and turns it into a vid...

In the satirical Extras series by Ricky Gervais we get a (fictional) look behind the scenes of major film productions, with the extras i...

Pitlochry fish ladder, next to the Pitlochry Power Station on the River Tummel near Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland – The ladder wa...

Today more than ever, people know that films and videos are constructions made of screenwriting, acting, editing, sound design and are the...

China is the home of the largest movie & drama production complex and film studios in the world, the Oriental Movie Metropolis a...

Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the nex...

A one-shot or continuous shot feature film is a full-length movie filmed in one long take by a single camera, or manufactured to give the ...

A sports film is a film genre that uses sport as the theme of the film. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and ...