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

A movie remake uses an earlier movie as its main source material, rather than returning to the earlier movie's source material. With ...

Digital methods have also been used to restore films, although their continued obsolescence cycle makes them a poor choice for long-term p...

With the development of analog sound recording, though, a performance could be permanently fixed, in all of its elements: pitch, rhythm, t...

Lighting The intensity, direction, and quality of lighting can influence an audience's understanding of characters, actions, themes a...

A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of ...

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

Cosplay a portmanteau of the words costume play, is a performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion ac...

Although the origins of the music video date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they again came into prominence...

Nam June Paik The Future is Now Largest overview in years of Nam June Paik: artist, visionary and pioneer. Paik saw early on what the i...

On the mysterious site, behind high fences and strict security, the Artillerie Inwoningen started producing firearms, artillery and ammuni...

Match cuts form the basis for continuity editing, such as the ubiquitous use of match on action. Continuity editing smooths over the inher...

;Match cuts form the basis for continuity editing, such as the ubiquitous use of match on action. Continuity editing smooths over the inhe...

A graphic match (as opposed to a graphic contrast or collision) occurs when the shapes, colors and/or overall movement of two shots match ...

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

Light is necessary to create an image exposure on a frame of film or on a digital target (CCD, etc.). The art of lighting for cinematograp...

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

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

Synthetic media technology currently enables these forms of manipulation: • Add and remove objects within a video more easily • Alter back...

    The earliest films had been shown in "peep show" machines or projected in vaudeville theaters as one of the otherwise live act...

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...