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

    Video content is being used in an ever-growing range of contexts, including testimonial videos, web presenter videos, help section video...

    A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement.[1] Fi...

    A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the...

      For years, mainstream cinematographers were limited to using the Academy ratio, but in the 1950s, thanks to the popularity of Cinerama...

    Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on the nature of the films they accompany. While the majority of...

  Places where the Foley process takes place are often referred to as a Foley stage or Foley studio. Foley artists recreate the realistic am...

    Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the sur...

    Once video was computer data, moving images could be any size and any frame rate within the power of that computer system. Just as film ...

    Continuity editing uses a guideline called the "30-degree rule" to avoid the appearance of jump cuts. The 30-degree rule advis...

     The power of Internet activism came into a global lens with the Arab Spring protests starting in late 2010. People living in the Middle...

  Modern offline video editing is conducted in a non-linear editing (NLE) suite. The availability of more powerful digital editing system...

    Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in...

    Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression, with evidence for its existence preceding that of written communication. It is...

     A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase f...

      The Panorama Amsterdam: A Living History of the City collection presentation consists of over 250 objects that give visitors a multifa...

    There are essentially four approaches that can be taken in photographic portraiture—the constructionist, environmental, candid, and crea...

The 35mm filmstrip, which showed a series of still images often with an accompanying commentary, was one of the most versatile, popular a...

    This autumn the Rijksmuseum will be teeming with more than a thousand colourful butterflies, hairy spiders and shiny toads. People once ...

    Clara the Rhinoceros Clara was strange and new, huge and awe-inspiring – she was utterly unlike any other known animal. From 30 Septembe...

     In film and video, a freeze frame is when a single frame of content shows repeatedly on the screen—"freezing" the action. Thi...

    A cinematographic technique in which the camera remains in a fixed position but pivots up or down in a vertical plane, i.e. upon its own...

    When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement—composition, sets, pro...

    Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia. However, in countries like the United States, it...

  Livestreaming is streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time over the internet. It is often referred to simply as...

  While historical drama is fiction, works may include references to real-life people or events from the relevant time period or contain fac...

    Video footage is the smudge-faced Cinderella of the art world. While sculpture, painting and photography get glammed up to be fawned u...

    The United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expres...

     Fiona Tan is known for her video and film installations in which she explores memory, history, globalisation and the role of images. Th...

      It's no surprise that any photograph -- digital or film -- is going to be vastly improved by a terrific composition. That is, no m...

  Digital cameras are far from immune to the environmental challenges that affect so many electronics. In fact, some digital cameras are a...

    TikTok hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance, and entertainment with duration...

  Origine? LA FLÛTE ENCHANTÉE (FR 1906 Pathé; released in the UK and US as THE MAGIC FLUTE), directed by Segundo de Chomón. A full copy ...

    From September 8 to October 23, 2022, the tenth edition of the biennial BredaPhoto Festival, the largest photo exhibition in the Benelux...

      An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that an audienc...

  n February 2006, author and educator Sir Ken Robinson stepped on to the TED stage and posed a provocative question: “Do schools kill cre...

    Movie is not dead! In a world of digital photography, there is little more fun than a 'real', tangible photo. You can of course ...

  Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically...

    Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although it ...

    Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headqua...

    The assistant director (AD) calls "picture is up!" to inform everyone that a take is about to be recorded, and then "quie...

    Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium and long shots (cinematic techniques). Close-ups display the most det...

     A few years ago, Aram his brother and creative partner Jurriaan (29) discovered a tool in his animation software that allowed him to ma...

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

      Polavision was an "instant" color home movie system launched by Polaroid in 1977. Unlike other motion picture film stock ...

      A remix is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the...

    The basic genres of film can be regarded as drama, in the feature film and most cartoons, and documentary. Most dramatic feature films, ...

    Film and television Organizations such as the American Humane Association monitor the use of animals such as those used in the entertain...