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

  Oil has been found in the poverty-stricken African country of Uganda. Much of the oil is located under protected natural parks that provid...

A film still (sometimes called a publicity still or a production still) is a photograph taken on or off the set of a movie or televisio...

A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television program, or video game. These screenplays can be origin...

Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or ...

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 ...

On rare occasions, 360° panoramic movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces—typically at theme parks, world's...

  Yes, it is absolutely best to see real Viking ships and authentic Viking sites up close. But since that isn’t possible right now, why no...

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

An aftermovie is an atmosphere report of all the highlights of your event. Nice for the participants to relive your event! And the people ...

The length of shots is an important consideration that can greatly affect a film. The purpose of editing any given scene is to create a re...

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audienc...

    A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or ...

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. O...

1 6 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film; other common film gauges includ...

Philiwood on Strijp "At that time, the 'silent' film was rampant, with clarifiers and orchestras to provide the image with ...

While some experimental films have been distributed through mainstream channels or even made within commercial studios, the vast majority ...

 'Le Mystère Picasso' is a remarkable documentary film made by French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, in which stop-action and ...

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

A positive image is a normal image. A negative image is a total inversion, in which light areas appear dark and vice versa. A negative col...

In social animals (including humans), silence can be a sign of danger. Many social animals produce seemingly haphazard sounds which are kn...

"Mise-en-scène" also includes the composition, which consists of the positioning and movement of actors, as well as objects, in ...

Les frères Lumière released the first projection with the Cinematograph, in Paris on 28 December 1895. The French film industry in the lat...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be the size of a molecule deep inside a single cell? How does your DNA move and how do the ...

A scanning electron microscope ( SEM ) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with ...

After the 2nd World war, films of the acclaimed documentary film directors Bert Haanstra and Herman van der Horst dominated Dutch cinema. ...

Sound City Studios is a recording studio opened in 1969 in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was the subject of ...

  Found footage is a cinematic technique in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or video recordi...

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography, iconography and illu...

Film is used for a range of goals, including education and propaganda. When the purpose is primarily educational, a film is called an ...

During the 1620s Jan Pieterszoon Coen in particular insisted that families and orphans be sent from Holland to populate the colonies. As a...

An art film is typically a serious, independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to...

A comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amuse...

  In filmmaking, a long take (also called continuous take or continuous shot) is a shot lasting much longer than the conventional editing ...

A propaganda film is a film that involves some form of propaganda. Propaganda films may be packaged in numerous ways, but are most often ...

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

A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film, for either stil...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book, book, or video game created by fans rather than by the...

  Chroma key compositing (or chroma keying) is a technique for compositing (layering) two images together. A color range in the top layer...

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American concert/documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President A...

While Wuhan has been a traditional manufacturing hub for decades, it is also one of the areas promoting modern industrial changes in China...

History is one of the three main genres in Western theatre alongside tragedy and comedy, although it originated, in its modern form, thous...

The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot which involves setting the camera at a...

Does she turn towards you or away from you? They disagree. She is the mysterious person in the 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Dut...

Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive and museum in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherla...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the s...

Fine-art photography is photography created in line with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creat...

The Gallery of Honour is an extended corridor directed towards a clear focal point: the Night Watch Gallery. On view in the side alcoves a...

The only museum of microbes, in the centre of Amsterdam. You can’t see them, but they’re here. They are on you. In you. And you’ve got ...

Close-ups are used in many ways and for many reasons. They are often employed as cutaways from a more distant shot to show detail, such as...