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

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

In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially...

    A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound m...

     A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of se...

    Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolv...

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

    Coppelia combines enchanting animation and live action dance in a modern retelling of the love story between Swan and Franz, jeopardi...

    The Westergasfabriek was built in 1885 by the Imperial Continental Gas Association, before being converted in 1993 into a cultural spa...

     A maquette is used to visualize and test forms and ideas without incurring the expense and effort of producing a full-scale piece. It i...

  Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted b...

    Video became an excitingly immediate medium for artists after its introduction in the early 1960s. The expensive technology, which had b...

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

    Compared to a silent stage, a sound stage is sound-proofed so that sound can be recorded along with the images. The recordings are known...

    People grow green en green makes people grow  A green environment actively contributes to the quality of life. People are happier and fe...

    Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its the...

  Script supervisors are a department head and play a crucial role in the shooting of a film. It is the script supervisor's job to mon...

    Virtual art is a term for the virtualization of art, made with the technical media developed at the end of the 1980s (or a bit before, i...

      As of today, former football players or other famous Dutch people may no longer be used for gambling advertisements. This measure is i...

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

    A parody, also called a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature, is a creative work de...

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

 Narrative can be organized into a number of thematic or formal categories: nonfiction (such as creative non-fiction , biography , journ...

    A 'turnaround' or 'turnaround deal' is occasionally used to describe an arrangement in the film industry whereby the pro...

     The simplest transition between shots it is a straight cut, which is an abrupt transition between two shots. Another type of transition...

      A story’s flow and rhythm determines how it sustains the audience’s interest throughout its duration. Storytellers must be able to pul...

       A still image film, also called a picture movie, is a film that consists primarily or entirely of still images rather than moving ima...

    Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct fr...

    Video game industry practices are similar to those of other entertainment industries (e.g., the music recording industry). Unlike the m...

     In filmmaking and television production, zooming is the technique of changing the focal length of a zoom lens (and hence the angle of v...

      In filmmaking and video production, footage is raw, unedited material as originally filmed by a movie camera or recorded by a (often s...

    New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphi...

    In film or video scene consists of a sequence of shots. Each shot is made from a different perspective and then they are joined together...

    CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned...

    The simplest transition between shots it is a straight cut, which is an abrupt transition between two shots. Another type of transition ...

    French filmmaker George Méliès, producer of silent black-and-white film, made films before the 30 degree rule existed. Méliès inspired s...

    A web series (also known as a web show) is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on t...

       Dubbing, mixing or re-recording, is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or suppleme...

     The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance...

    An atypical friendship of a young lowlander and teenagers from an indigenous community is put to test due to the overlong pandemic lockd...

    Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over...

    Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment. Every cu...

   Donna Verheijden is a designer, artist and filmmaker. Verheijden graduated from the Sandberg Institute. As a contemporary image maker, D...

    Digital storytelling is a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their story. The media ...

    Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a majo...

    Sepia toning is a chemical process used in photography which changes the appearance of black-and-white prints to brown. The color is now...

    What is digital storytelling? In its simplest form, digital storytelling refers to the practice of using computer-based tools to tell ...