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

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    Film materials should be stored in interior rooms away from exterior walls and places that do not have extreme temperature fluctuations....

Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it is t...

    Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a ...

      16 mm This was a popular format for audio-visual use in schools and as a high-end home entertainment system before the advent of broa...

    The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, craft...

    Walk and talk is a storytelling technique used in filmmaking and television production in which a number of characters have a conversa...

    Docufiction (or docu-fiction), often confused with docudrama, is  the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term ...

      The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called "soundtrack albums" in the late 1940s...

    Media manipulation is a series of related techniques in which partisans create an image or argument that favours their particular inter...

    Telecine is the process of transferring motion picture film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer...

     Axial cut A type of jump cut, where the camera suddenly moves closer to or further away from its subject along an invisible line drawn ...

  Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadc...

    Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genr...

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

      In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete ...

    Camera obscura (plural camerae obscurae or camera obscuras, from Latin camera obscūra, “dark chamber”), also referred to as pinhole ima...

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

    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...