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

  Practically all Swedish actors and film directors of the 20th century had some connection with Filmstaden. In 1969, Svensk Filmindustri le...

    Film teasers are usually made for big-budget and popularly themed movies. Their purpose is less to tell the audience about a movie's...

  >An analysis of over 7,000 influencers in the UK indicated that about half of their followers have up to 20,000 "low-quality"...

    A player piano (also known as a pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates t...

    Set construction is the process undertaken by a construction manager to build full-scale scenery, as specified by a production designer ...

    "Digital storytelling" is a relatively new term which describes the new practice of everyday people who use digital tools to t...

    Match cuts form the basis for continuity editing, such as the ubiquitous use of match on action. Continuity editing smooths over the inh...

  LAWKI–Alive from MU Hybrid Art House on Vimeo . Worldwide, we watch a billion hours of online videos. Per. Day. Games, music, news, ma...

      The ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station (ir. D.F. Woudagemaal) is a pumping station in the Netherlands, and the largest still operati...

  The oldest magic lantern, as far as we know, is located in Leiden, the Netherlands, in the Museum Boerhaave. The projector was made about ...

  A cold open (also called a teaser sequence) is a narrative technique used in television and films. It is the practice of jumping directly ...

    Advancements in computer-generated imagery (CGI) have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences and other visual effects tha...

    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...

    Meanwhile, the neighborhood refrigerators are becoming a real movement. In the video letter from director Ilja Willems, Kymme Williams-D...

    A virtual festival experience. This platform offers exposure to a large international audience for all design professionals, graduates ...

    The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presenta...

    Slicing of images A more recent tool in digital image editing software is the image slicer. Parts of images for graphical user interf...

    Three different digital soundtrack systems for 35 mm cinema release prints were introduced during the 1990s. They are: Dolby Digital, wh...

    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...