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

  Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a spe...

     His Master's Voice (HMV) was the unofficial name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phr...

    A cog is a type of ship that first appeared in the 10th century, and was widely used from around the 12th century on. Cogs were clinker-...

    A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture or a screen recording, often contain...

  In filmmaking, dailies are the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture. They are thus referred to because usual...

    As a result of the war, the State of Israel controlled the area that UN General Assembly Resolution 181 had recommended for the proposed...

The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides ...

  Russian film production There are around 400 private production companies. They do not have their own facilities for creating films that...

    Tripods: Anyone serious about good quality camera work must understand the importance of the tripod. Almost all types of video work requ...

    A Photomatic (probably derived from 'animatic' or photo-animation) is a series of still photographs edited together and presente...

    Set construction is the process undertaken by a construction manager to build full-scale scenery, as specified by a production designer ...

     Color grading is the process of improving the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. V...

     The Dutch Cheese Museum, founded in 1983, is housed in the monumental Weigh house, in the centre of Alkmaar; a city famous for its chee...

    During pre-production, the script is broken down into individual scenes with storyboards and all the locations, props, cast members, c...

      The power of Internet activism came into a global lens with the Arab Spring protests starting in late 2010. People living in the Middl...

  Dutch Brazil, also known as New Holland, was the northern portion of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, ruled by the Dutch during the Dutch...

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

      For years, mainstream cinematographers were limited to using the Academy ratio, but in the 1950s, thanks to the popularity of Cinerama...

     Lyon’s Musée Miniature et Cinéma This collection is the only one of its kind in Europe, built to honour the exceptional but little-know...

  High-key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television, or photography that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scen...

       In film and video, a freeze frame is when a single of content shows repeatedly on the screen—"freezing" the action. This ca...

    Digital humans definition: who and what are they? Don’t panic. Let’s set the topic of cyborgs and transhumanism aside. In fact, the co...

  Composition Composition is the organization of objects, actors and space within the frame. One of the most important concepts with the r...

    There is a battle raging on the internet, and you may count yourself lucky if you’ve heard nothing about it since it involves the usua...

    Rule of space The rule of space applies to artwork (photography, advertising, illustration) picturing objects to which the artist wants...

    Rule of odds The "rule of odds" suggests that an odd number of subjects in an image is more interesting than an even number. T...

    The camera angle marks the specific location at which the movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot fro...

    Film Fest Ghent is the largest international film festival in Belgium. The festival propagates film and visual culture to a broad audien...

    pictures in this film has used so-called deep learning technology. A computer learns how a face can be 'brought to life' on the ...

  The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France, They moved to Lyon in 1870, where son Edouard and three daughters were born. Auguste a...

  Let's bring to life some historical sculptures and statues today by colorizing them and using modern technology with artificial intel...

    The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to th...

  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 f...

    The first film cameras were fastened directly to the head of a tripod or other support, with only the crudest kind of leveling devices p...

     A movie star (also known as a film star or cinema star) is an actor or actress who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in m...

    Places of natural beauty such as beaches, tropical island resorts, national parks, mountains, deserts and forests, are examples of tradi...

    A take is over when the director calls "Cut!" and the camera and sound stop recording. The script supervisor will note any con...

  During preproduction, the props master develops a props breakdown. This is essentially mapping out the logical progression of each prop ...

      Pre-production is the process of planning some of the elements involved in a film, play, or other performance. There are three parts i...

    The Blender Foundation is an independent non-profit public benefit corporation, established in Amsterdam the Netherlands. Its purpose i...

    Types of industrial film The genre is composed of advertising films, educational films, industrial videos, training films, social guida...

    Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditio...

  In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, a casting (or casting call) is a pre-production process for selectin...

    Docufiction (or docu-fiction), often confused with docudrama, is the cinematograpic combination of documentary and fiction. More preci...

    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 f...

    The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Ors...

  Despite many questions about the actual impact of Urban Sun on coronavirus, Jet Bussemaker, a former education minister who now chairs t...

     A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company or motion picture company that has its own...

      Film gauge is a physical property of photographic or motion picture film stock which defines its width. Traditionally, the major movie...