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

     A remake is a film, television series, video game, or similar form of entertainment, that is based upon and retells the story of an ear...

    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 ...

    TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian media organization that posts talks online for free dis...

    >Digital movies are projected using a digital video projector instead of a film projector, are shot using digital movie cameras and ...

  During pre-production, the script is broken down into individual scenes with storyboards and all the locations, props, cast members, cos...

    Mediamatic Biotoop is a breeding ground for art, design and life sciences. Here you will find many site-specific installations, a restau...

      A tutorial, in education, is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and ...

     In all of these cases, the illusion is created by a special effects technique known as traveling matte or blue screen. This technique a...

    There is precious little that is natural … in any film. You distort speed if you want to show things like plants growing, or look in det...

    Spaarndammerbuurt - Amsterdam's hidden gem A short video about the Spaarndammerbuurt neighbourhood in west Amsterdam. The whole a...

  Museum Het Schip is located in the imaginative public housing complex designed by architect Michel de Klerk. This expressionist housing ...

    A compilation film, or compilation movie is a film composed of scenes and shots taken from two or more prior films and edited together s...

    Walk and talk is a storytelling technique used in filmmaking and television production in which a number of characters have a conversati...

    The history of film as an artistic medium chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in ...

    filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe. Via the multi-lingual ...

      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...