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

Film narrative does not have the luxury of having a textual narrator that guides its audience towards a formative narrative; nor does it h...

Outdoor exhibition In this exhibition the public gets to know groups of women from Amsterdam New West. From residents who have been livi...

 Alÿs films in cities and villages, but also in places dominated by conflict and tension – such as Afghanistan or a Yazidi refugee camp i...

  Medieval fasting was a serious business and there were many rules to be followed. Generally, a fast day meant that no meat could be ea...

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

  Documentary films were originally called actuality films, and were one minute, or less, in length. Over time, documentaries have evolved...

Filters modify the images recorded. Sometimes they are used to make only subtle changes to images; other times the image would simply no...

Film teasers are usually made for big-budget and popularly themed movies. Their purpose is less to tell the audience about a movie's c...

The 30-degree rule is a basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject betwee...

 A scene could show a man going into battle, with flashbacks to his youth and to his home-life and with added special effects, placed into...

Carnival in the Netherlands (Dutch: Carnaval; also called "vastenavond" – eve of the fasting) is a festival held mainly in the S...

Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, th...

2D animation figures are created or edited on the computer using 2D bitmap graphics and 2D vector graphics. This includes automated compu...

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

With the advent of digital editing, film editors and their assistants have become responsible for many areas of filmmaking that used to b...

Projection mapping, similar to video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technique used to turn objects, often irregula...

A mashup (also mesh, mash up, mash-up, blend, bootleg is a creative work, usually in a form of a song, created by blending two or more pre...

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 ...