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

  Amateur usage of Super 8 has been largely replaced by video, but the format is sometimes used by professionals trying to imitate the look...

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

    Terms such as absolute film, cinéma pur, true cinema and integral cinema have been used for non-narrative films that aimed to create a p...

    The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or rec...

     Documentary film of the Netherlands has long been renowned worldwide. The most prominent Dutch directors, especially those who started ...

    Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious ...

    Mise-en-scène English: "placing on stage" or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of a...

    In filmmaking, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another cha...

    Prosthetic makeup (also called special make-up effects and FX prosthesis) is the process of using prosthetic sculpting, molding and cast...

  Many Christmas stories have been adapted to movies and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on TV. Since the pop...

    In recent years, "vlogging" has spawned a large community on social media, becoming one of the most popular forms of digital e...

    A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme....

    Cameras have been mounted to nearly every imaginable form of transportation. Most cameras can also be handheld, that is held in the ha...

    Cinema of Africa is both the history and present of the making or screening of films on the African continent, and also refers to the pe...

    Slide shows had their beginnings in the 1600s, when hand-painted images on glass were first projected onto a wall with a "magic lan...

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

  An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major fil...

    A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news r...

    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...