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

    The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. The first Italian director is considered to be Vittor...

   The term "family film" is essentially an American expression while ”children's film" is considered to be a European ex...

      Experimental film, experimental cinema, or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventio...

    This is a short puppet animation from the Dutch puppet animation 'factory' Dollywood. Raised by Joop Geesink and now part of t...

    Improvisation is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. Improvisation in the per...

    To perform digital colorization, a digitized copy of the best black and white film print available is used. With the aid of computer sof...

  An amateur photographer is one who practices photography as a hobby/passion and not necessarily for profit. The quality of some amateur...

       The NDSM Werf (NDSM Wharf) in Amsterdam – a former shipyard on the northern banks of the River IJ – is now a breeding ground for cult...

  The concept of early cinema, “moving pictures,” is a direct evolution of the concept of a moving panorama. The first use of the scrolling...

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

      A fishing weir, fish weir, fishgarth or kiddle is an obstruction placed in tidal waters, or wholly or partially across a river, to dir...

    With the advent of digital editing in non-linear editing systems, film editors and their assistants have become responsible for many are...

  -    Contexts By contexts we mean the artistic, economic, cultural, social, historical and current contexts in which the film is made an...

      The language of film Film language is - in addition to spoken and written language - the way in which we communicate with each other i...

       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 consi...

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

      The multiple-camera setup, multiple-camera mode of production, multi-camera or simply multicam is a method of filmmaking and video pro...

    Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved...

    Cinematography can not only depict a moving subject but can use a camera, which represents the audience's viewpoint or perspective, ...

The first museum in the Netherlands dedicated to new media art. Discover large scale, multi-sensory exhibitions which challenge assumption...

    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...