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

    Experimental filmmakers generally begin as amateurs, and some use experimental films as a springboard into commercial film-making or tra...

    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 filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Film shots are an essen...

    To perform digital colorization, a digitized copy of the best black and white film print available is used. With the aid of computer sof...

    Screensavers are a fascinating part of the cultural heritage of the early digital age. These ‘pause images’ first appeared on our comp...

 The role and status of journalism, as well as mass media, has undergone changes over the last two decades, together with the advancement...

    Historically, the master shot was the most important shot of any given scene. All shots in a given scene were somehow related to what ...

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

    Daylighting (using windows, skylights, or light shelves) is sometimes used as the main source of light during daytime in buildings. Th...

    Avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or altern...

      A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film While the most common form of film adapta...

    The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century....

    Before the camera stabilizing system, a director had two choices for moving (or "tracking") shots: The camera could be mo...

      A film release is the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public exhibition of the film. The exhibition may be in thea...

    A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living c...

    A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context...

    Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they ...

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

    Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narr...

    After some initial resistance, the impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, literature, drawing, sculpt...

    Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form...

  Wedding videography is a video production that documents a wedding on video. The final product of the videographer's documentation i...

    Filmmaking also takes place outside of the mainstream and is commonly called independent filmmaking. Since the introduction of DV techn...

    While bioenergy is generally agreed to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale, environmental activists argue that increased...

     A drive-in movie theater is an outdoor parking area with a screen—sometimes an inflatable screen—at one end and a projection booth at t...

    A showreel (also known as a demo reel or sizzle reel) is a short video showcasing a person's previous work used by many kinds of peo...

  Artist Vrellis was inspired by the movement of the clouds that Van Gogh tried to capture in the well-known work. The Greek made an inter...

      With the spread of global high-speed internet, video clips have become very popular online. By mid-2006 there were tens of millions of...

    Narrative film, fictional film or fiction film is a motion picture that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. C...

    Film posters have been used since the earliest public exhibitions of film. They began as outside placards listing the programme of (shor...

    There is a law of natural cutting and that this replicates what an audience in a legitimate theater does for itself. The more nearly t...

    Film colorization or colourization is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia, or other monochrome moving-picture image...

      The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the ...

    Filmmaking is both an art and an industry. That is why they call it "show business". It's a show and a business. Films wer...

    Cinematography can not only depict a moving subject but can use a camera, which represents the audience's viewpoint or perspective,...

     The Institut Lumière is a French organisation, based in Lyon, for the promotion and preservation of aspects of French film making. The ...

    Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The l...

    In cinema, a making-of, also known as behind-the-scenes, the set or on the set is a documentary film that features the production of a f...

  A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living c...

    The Namibian desert town Oranjemund was until recently run by the Namdeb Diamond Corporation. Only employees were allowed to live there ...

    Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both art...

    Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to ano...

    Political cinema, in the narrow sense of the term, is films that portray current or historical events or social conditions through a p...

    In the early 1960s Yugoslavia produced more films than ever before. Exports soared during this period of intense creativity and experime...

    Welcome to Oceanogràfic València, the largest aquarium in Europe. Located in the avant-garde architectural complex of the City of Arts a...

    A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation, or a spe...

    HOW TO WORK WITH LIMITED FOOTAGE What happens when you have very little footage? Maybe you have just one shot of graphic violence bu...

    Rembrandt lighting is a standard lighting technique that is used in cinematography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector,...