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

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. They are regarded a...

    Theater Tuschinski, officially Pathé Tuschinski, is a movie theater located in the city of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. It is situated...

    A remake is a film, or occasionally a television series, video game, or similar form of entertainment, that is based upon and retells th...

    In film, a match cut is a cut from one shot to another where the composition of the two shots are matched by the action or subject and s...

     Live sound mixing is the blending of multiple sound sources by an audio engineer using a mixing console or software. Sounds that are mi...

    A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematography,...

    And that’s all films are. Just an extension of childhood, where everybody wants to be freer, everybody wants to be powerful, everybody...

    The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Fi...

    Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, computer animation an...

    Making a movie is one of the greatest accomplishments in the world. As a filmmaker, taking your movie idea from script to screen is beyo...

    In film and video, a cutaway is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually fo...

    Although usually more expensive than film projectors, high-resolution digital projectors offer many advantages over traditional film uni...

  Formally Trained as an avant-garde, abstract expressionist painter, Stan Herd went on to become something a little different — an eart...

  Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Joris Ivens described its audiovisual aims: To render the half-musical impressions of factory sounds in a ...

    Forced perspective is a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than i...

    In filmmaking, a long take (also called continuous take or continuous shot) is a shot with a duration much longer than the conventional ...

  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...