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

Traditionally, movie theaters have had agreements with studios to allow the theaters to screen films for specific periods of time before s...

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same pla...

Commonly the effect of animation is achieved by a rapid succession of sequential images that minimally differ from each other. The illusio...

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

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...

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” That is the motto of a photojournalist. It is their objective to produce direct, truthful and bold ...

Welcome to the Ourmedia, an initiative devoted to creating and sharing works of personal media. Video blogs, photo albums, original musi...

Continuity editing can be divided into two categories: temporal continuity and spatial continuity. Within each category, specific techniqu...

An ellipsis is an apparent break-in natural time continuity as it is implied in the film's story. The simplest way to maintain tempora...

Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modification...

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same pl...

Polaroid Originals, more recently just Polaroid, is a Dutch photography company and manufacturer founded in 2008 by Florian Kaps, André Bo...

What we think of as "film music" today is a creation of only a few inventive and original composers, one fewer of whom walks the...

Film, also called movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a visual art-form used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stori...

Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same pla...

The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed in the Soviet Union and in the years following its dissolution, the Rus...

An ellipsis is an apparent break-in natural time continuity as it is implied in the film's story. The simplest way to maintain tempora...

Start your voyage of discovery at the Hunebed Centre in Borger with a special Geopark De Hondsrug exhibition about the Ice Ages and preh...

A "buffer shot" is a film technique of inserting a shot into a film to disguise a mistake, or a cut. Buffer shots are often know...

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes ...

                                       § In Francis Alÿs’s video REEL-UNREEL, the action takes place along the bare cityscape of Kabul, A...

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

  A sound blimp is a housing attached to a camera which reduces the sound caused by the shutter click, particularly SLRs. It is primarily ...

In 2013, it was estimated that 92% of movie theatres in the United States had converted to digital, with 8% still playing film. Although...

A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living cre...

Magic lantern slides brought the world to life in pictures. The first lantern slides were created in the 1600s, around 200 years before ...

  Now online education company MasterClass has made some of his knowledge easily accessible in the form of their new course "David Lync...

Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shootin...

A film transition is a technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combin...

Before the widespread use of digital non-linear editing systems, the initial editing of all films was done with a positive copy of the fil...

A shot in which the camera moves alongside or parallel to its subject. Traditionally tracking shots are filmed while the camera is mounted...

A web film is a film made with the medium of the Internet and its distribution constraints in mind. This term aims to differentiate c...

. In photography and cinematography, available light (also called ambient light or practical light) refers to any source of light that i...

An interview is essentially a structured conversation where one participant asks questions , and the other provides answers. In common...

The Disadvantages of Tourism. Environmental. Tourism can often cause environmental damage with risks like erosion, pollution, the loss of ...

A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living cre...

Cinephilia (/ˌsɪnɪˈfɪliə/; also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and...

  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...