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

    In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to ...

    The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, craft...

    Most storyboard artists begin and finish their work on computers using software and digital pencils or a graphics tablet. Storyboard art...

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

  Fine-art photography is photography created in line with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for ...

    Wrap, as used in the phrase "That's a wrap" has been used by directors since the early days of the film industry to signal...

    Contains shocking images   A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject an...

    In  cinema, behind-the-scenes (BTS), also known as the making-of, the set, or on the set, is a type of documentary film that features th...

    Compared to other neo-avant-garde movements that emerged during the 1960s, conceptual art is conspicuous by virtue of the lack of seriou...

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

  In performing arts, a performance generally comprises an event in which a performer, or group of performers, present one or more works o...

    Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permissio...

    Koninklijke Philips N.V. , commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhove...

    The film is nominally 8 mm wide, the same as older formatted 8 mm film, but the dimensions of the rectangular perforations along one edg...

  Perhaps the best known appearance of Cephalonia in popular culture is in the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by the English author...

     A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually on telev...

  Post-production  This stage is usually thought of as starting when principal photography ends, but they may overlap. The bulk of post-prod...

    . Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmm...

  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...