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

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

      The establishing shot is one that provides a view of all the space in which the action is occurring. Its theory is that it is difficul...

  It all began in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized an international contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to ...

  The Romanovs' love affair with the Middle ages Czars and knights, ladies, courtly love and tournaments. And a splendid medieval art co...

/>   In the visual arts, style is a "...distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories" or ...

    Light is necessary to create an image exposure on a frame of film or on a digital target (CCD, etc.). The art of lighting for cinematogr...

    A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the ...

    Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt or dolly around the stage driven by ...

    IN THE PICTURE, OUT OF THE PICTURE, ADDED TO THE PICTURE? The large-scale group portraits are impressive examples of painting technique....

    Mise-en-scène  is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in visual arts through sto...

    This production by Jon Kasbe/The New Yorkeris an example of an audiovisual narrative in which the filmmaker was embedded with the hospit...

    Filters Filters, such as diffusion filters or color effect filters, are also widely used to enhance mood or dramatic effects. Most photo...

    In filmmaking, the cinematographer or director of photography (DP or DoP) is sometimes called lighting cameraman or first cameraman. The...

  Robot animals Fascinating images that fit with the adage that applies to nature documentaries: 'more and more beautiful'. Sander...

    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...

     The filmmakers — Lucrecia Martel (South America), Leopold Emmen (Europe), Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (Africa), Carlos Reygadas (North Ame...

    Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all ...

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

    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...