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

    A media clip is a short segment of electronic media, either an audio clip or a video clip. Media clips may be promotional in nature, as...

    All communication (and data processing) is achieved through the use of symbols. Symbols take the form of words, sounds, gestures, ideas,...

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 2014 Western stage play by Jethro Compton based on the 1953 short story of the same name by Doro...

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

    3D films are motion pictures made to give an illusion of three-dimensional solidity, usually with the help of special glasses worn by vi...

  Step into an immersive experience at the intersection of reality and fantasy worlds. In the Black Fantastic shows seductive, exuberant a...

    "The End of eating Everything" is an excerpt of artist Wangechi Mutu's first animated video, created in collaboration with...

       An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balanci...

    Cinéma vérité is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about ...

    Most continuity errors are subtle and minor, such as changes in the level of drink in a character's glass or the length of a cigar...

    The most common use of cutaway shots in dramatic films is to adjust the pace of the main action, to conceal the deletion of some unwante...

      In July 2021, several European countries were affected by severe floods. Some were catastrophic, causing deaths and widespread damage....

    The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going t...

    A worm's-eye view is a view of an object from below, as though the observer were a worm; the opposite of a bird's-eye view. It c...

    And God Created Woman ( French : Et Dieu... créa la femme ) is a 1956 French romantic drama film directed by Roger Vadim in his direc...

    There are three stages of video production: pre-production, production (also known as principal photography), and post-production. Pre-p...

    Chicly dressed bathers who bathe their feet on the Zeekant in Bergen op Zoom at the Kurhaus on the salty Oosterschelde. They are images ...

    Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in produc...

    The cinema of Japan has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world;...

    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....