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

A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlie...

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

Poetry film is a subgenre of film that fuses the use of spoken word poetry, visual images, and sound to create a stronger presentation and...

Video can allow the opportunity to see someone in their full humanity, which gets lost in a written statement. Video can help people contr...

The Dutch Wadden Sea, one of the most beautiful landscapes of Europe, and one of its ecologically most important nature reserves, a UNESC...

Film producer Michael Todd, the husband of film actress Elizabeth Taylor, asked Philips in 1954 to develop a film projector for his Todd-A...

Non-linear editing is a form of offline editing for audio, video, and image editing. In offline editing, the original content is not modif...

Experimental filmmakers generally begin as amateurs, and some used experimental films as a springboard into commercial film making or tran...

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

I had to watch this short film more than once before I could lift my jaw from the floor.  Directed by Sil van der Woerd and Rutger Hauer (...

Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked i...

A great movie is the one with the best quality sound. That is the sole intention of having this iMovie sound effects to differentiate betw...

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

A drive-in theater or drive-in cinema is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a conc...

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

F ilm is considered to have its own language. An example of the language is a sequence of back and forth images of one speaking actor'...

Bad sound: Any seasoned filmmaker will tell you that having good sound is more important than having good images. So, if you're in the...

A story within a story can be used in all types of narration: novels, short stories, plays, television programs, films, poems, songs, and...

In photography and cinematography, available light or ambient light refers to any source of light that is not explicitly supplied by the p...

When using the sky as a background, make sure the subject is frontlighted or sidelighted if you're using a camera with automatic expos...

A camera stabilizer, or camera–stabilizing mount, is a device designed to hold a camera in a manner that prevents or compensates for unwan...

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

In photography and cinematography, available light or ambient light refers to any source of light that is not explicitly supplied by the ...

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

Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much more spread out tha...

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

In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving...

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It ...

  I t's one of cinema's greatest ironies that editing can make or break a film, but few moviegoers understand what an editor actual...

An uncluttered background helps focus attention on the subject. By filming from a low angle and using the sky as a background, or by shoot...

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

Key Frame: In some forms of digital compression, uncompressed frames (key frames) are placed at regular intervals (eg. every 6th frame is ...

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 ...