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

At the dawn of its commercial deployment from the 1950s through the 1990s, videotelephony also included "image phones" which wou...

The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the sile...

Disaster tourism has been defined as the practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or man-made,...

Visual artists are no longer limited to traditional art media. Computers have been used as an ever more common tool in the visual arts sin...

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 ...

Docufiction (or docu-fiction), often confused with docudrama, is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term oft...

Crossing the Line (Reverse Cut) Crossing the line is a very important concept in video and film production. It refers to an imaginary li...

Maritime art, especially marine painting - as a particular genre separate from landscape – really began with Dutch Golden Age painting i...

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

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

The Zaanstreek/Zaan area is possibly the oldest industrial area in the world. It flourished in the 17th century, when there where about a ...

A Dutch auction is one of several similar kinds of auctions. Most commonly, it means an auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high...

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...

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (colloquial: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox, 20th, Fox) is an American film studio that is...

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...

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of ...

As psychologist Chris Willard often says, our phones can be our greatest enemy or greatest friend. While they can save us time and energy,...

In filmmaking and video production, pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit. At this stage, finalizing preparation...

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 ...