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

  I Interviews can be unstructured, free-wheeling and open-ended conversations without predetermined plan or prearranged questions. One form...

    An industrial video may be used for: Marketing, communicating to potential clients the value of services or products. Customers...

    Most nature documentary films or television series focus on a particular species, ecosystem, or scientific idea (such as evolution). Alt...

    A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company may be the same with, or different from, the pro...

    The international drone film festival. InAir.Amsterdam is a prestigious international drone film competition. Amazing screenings. New ge...

    Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine l...

    World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organizat...

      A re-cut trailer, or retrailer is a mashup video that uses footage from a movie or its original trailers to create a completely new co...

      The main purpose of publicity stills is to help studios advertise and promote their new films and stars. Studios therefore send those ...

    Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awa...

    Art film producers usually present their films at special theaters (repertory cinemas or, in the U.S., art-house cinemas) and at film fe...

    Many contemporary activists now utilize new tactics through the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs), al...

  Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. The movement used ...

    The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war...

      Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, scul...

      A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dr...

    The terms fade-out (also called fade to black) and fade-in are used to describe a transition to and from a blank image. This is in contr...

    A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking, including such subjects as film production, fi...

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

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

    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...