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

    A master shot is a film recording of an entire dramatized scene, start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all the players in view...

    A high-angle shot is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle and the point of focus often get...

    A great variety of films are shown at cinemas, ranging from animated films to blockbusters to documentaries. The smallest movie theaters...

    A camera obscura is a darkened room with a small hole or lens at one side through which an image is projected onto a wall or table oppo...

    Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrativ...

    Installation art can be either temporary or permanent. Installation artworks have been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums ...

      Back in the 1960s, only a small proportion of people acquired colorization techniques. Today, things are different. There are many ...

    Tilting is a cinematographic technique in which the camera stays in a fixed position but rotates up/down in a vertical plane. Tilting th...

    The Steadicam is a body harness and stabilization arm that connects to the camera, supporting the camera while isolating it from the ope...

    Mass communication is the process of imparting and exchanging information through mass media to large segments of the population. It is ...

    Homage or hommage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but oft...

      A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece o...

    The secret of film scoring All you have to do is learn the secret of film scoring: The only purpose of a film score is to ...

     Eye rents out all genres of films to Dutch cinemas. The Eye distribution collection includes more than 2,000 titles and is still growin...

    A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an arthouse film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age...

    A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television program, or video game. These screenplays can be orig...

    Most early motion pictures are considered lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Additiona...

    There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film e...

  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...