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    When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement—composition, sets, ...

    Nowadays, any video work could be called videography, whereas commercial motion picture production would be called cinematography. A v...

      In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Film shots are an ...

    An important element of "putting in the scene" is set design—the setting of a scene and the objects (props) visible in a sce...

   A documentary film is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, educ...

    Hard and soft light are different types of lighting that are commonly used in photography and filmmaking. Soft light is light that tends...

    Extreme long shots are usually done in a high angle so the viewer can look down upon a setting or scene. Extreme longs shots are used ma...

A feature film, or feature-length film, is a film (also called a motion picture or movie) with a running time long enough to be considered...

   A preview performance refers to a showing of a film to a select audience, usually for the purposes of corporate promotions, before the p...

Holysloot? 'Sloot' is the Dutch word for 'ditch'. Why would a ditch be blessed? 'Holy' is just old Dutch for ...

An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship b...

Disney is under fire for shooting its new film Mulan in parts of China where the government is accused of serious human rights abuses. ...

CONTEMPORARY QUESTIONS ABOUT DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY In 1958, the Stedelijk Museum was one of the first museums of modern art in the wor...

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

  VIDEO is HOT and many companies and organizations and self-employed people want videos on their WEBSITE, Intranet, Facebook, Twitter and I...

In British English the word "exhibition" is used for a collection of items placed on display and the event as a whole, which in ...

Stage combat, fight craft or fight choreography is a specialised technique in theatre designed to create the illusion of physical combat w...

Dissolving views were a popular type of 19th century magic lantern show exhibiting the gradual transition from one projected image to anot...

Three different digital soundtrack systems for 35 mm cinema release prints were introduced during the 1990s. They are: Dolby Digital, whic...

The National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) groups together Amsterdam’s Tropenmuseum, the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal and the Museum Vol...

Most early forms of motion pictures or film were black and white. Some color film processes, including hand coloring were experimented wit...

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...