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

      "Costume" often refers to a particular style of clothing worn to portray the wearer as a character or type of character at...

    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 (an...

     The tradition of illuminated manuscripts lasted for over a thousand years. The books were created by individuals or teams for uses as w...

America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, deeper in debt, swampier, dirtier, meaner, sicker, and deade...

      In the infancy of motion pictures, the cinematographer was usually also the director and the person physically handling the camera. As...

  Instagram was originally distinguished by only allowing content to be framed in a square (1:1) aspect ratio with 640 pixels to match the...

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

      Multimedia is a form of communication that combines different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a s...

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

  Haring from KLOMP! Animation on Vimeo . A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoon, arranged in interrelated panels to di...

    The Battle of the Scheldt in World War II was a series of military operations led by the First Canadian Army, with Canadian, Polish and ...

    A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 19...

  Underwater photography can also be categorised as an art form and a method for recording data. Successful underwater imaging is usually do...

    Periscope offers live broadcasts with a twist—the ability to replay them at any time. Every video comes to life with a league of integra...

    Every child learns about the historic efforts of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. to stop systemic racism in a society that ...

    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...