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

  Clay animation or claymation, sometimes plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation. Each animated piece, either ...

    Photographic processing or photographic development is the chemical means by which photographic film or paper is treated after photogr...

    Now a village of just 1,000 inhabitants, Stavoren was once a wealthy port city in the Dutch province of Friesland but began to declin...

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

    On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of ...

  Since the advent of home video in the early 1980s, most major films have followed a pattern of having several distinct release windows. ...

    Many films have one main film unit which does all primary filming and one or more smaller film units shooting additional "pickup...

    Glamour photography is the photographing of a model with the emphasis on the model and the model's sexuality and allure; with any ...

    It is the very first feature film about the Indonesian war of independence: The East, a film by Golden Calf winner Jim Taihuttu. The pe...

      The festival With 340,000 admissions and almost 2,700 film professionals attending (346 of whom are filmmakers), IFFR is one of the la...

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such...

    With the rise of smartphones nowadays, everyone is their own videographer. Almost everyone will take short videos when something excitin...

    In the post-production process of film editing and video editing, a dissolve (sometimes called a lap dissolve) is a gradual transition f...

    It has now been more than half a century since the directors of the New Wave (in French, "Nouvelle Vague") electrified the int...

      A music video is a short film, of variable length, that integrates a song or album with imagery that is produced for promotional or ar...

      Eye is internationally acclaimed for its commitment to the preservation of film heritage. Eye also plays a leading role in the digitiz...

    Creature suits are realistic costumes used to disguise a performer as an animal, monster, or other being. They are used in film, televis...

"We get our ideas from what I'm going to call for a moment our unconscious -- the part of our mind that goes on working, for exam...

    Video or digital film When using a video camera or digital motion picture camera, the image and sound are often recorded simultaneously ...

  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...