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

    " >Film directors have used fiction to show how humans relate to nature, in all genres. Think of disaster films, films about pan...

    On the ruins of the Anthropocene, humanity has made way for a rich biotope teeming with mixed life-forms: human, animal, machine hybrids...

  Bridging shot A shot used to cover a jump in time or place or other discontinuity. Examples are a clock face showing advancing time,...

    The lease contract to the Vondelpark Pavilion was signed with the Municipality of Amsterdam, following which the renovations of the hist...

    In film and theatre, a manuscript, or script for short, is an author's or dramatist's text, used by a theatre company or film cr...

  Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated films, cartoon came to refer to animation, and the word ca...

  Blender is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL, or “free software”). This license grants people a number of freedoms: • ...

    Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs. It involves specifying, acquiring or creating aud...

    Film colorization  is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia, or other monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done a...

     The cinematographer is a subordinate of the director, tasked with capturing a scene in accordance with the director's vision. Relat...

    A title sequence (also called an opening sequence or intro) is the method by which films or television programmes present their title an...

    The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. It is situated at the Oude Turfmarkt 127 in Amste...

  Animation producer Cilia van Dijk won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1986 as producer of Anna & Bella, directed by Børge R...

    One reason for the decline in ticket sales in the 2000s is that "home-entertainment options [are] improving all the time— whether s...

    Principal photography can take place in a studio or in an actual setting, and the choice of location depends on artistic and economic as...

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment. Every cultu...

    After World War II, the Polygoon-journal had its glory days; 400 different cinemas weekly showed Neêrlands Nieuws and Wereldnieuws. In...

  Color motion pictures became the norm by the mid-1950s, but that doesn’t mean black-and-white films were no longer being made. Consideri...

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

  Compositing is the process or technique of combining visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illus...

    George Debels originally came from Antwerp, where he studied technical drawing. In 1914, after the German invasion of Belgium, he fled t...

    There is talk of 83% growth in a so-called industry built on false metrics, trivial and absurd premises, and distorted mechanisms. The s...

    Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This informat...

    The Mutoscope and Biograph Collection is the oldest film collection held at Eye Filmmuseum. It includes over 200 films, most of which ma...

  Internet activism involves the use of electronic-communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms...

  Internet activism[a] involves the use of electronic-communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various f...

    A film's genre will influence the use of filmmaking styles and techniques, such as the use of flashbacks and low-key lighting in fil...

  An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the mind normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. Althoug...

    Celluloid Remix revolves around unique film material from the first decades of film history (1896-1933), the period of the silent fil...

    In motion picture terminology, a montage (from the French for "putting together" or "assembly") is a film editing t...

    A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play). A s...

    A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the obs...

    Videography is the process of capturing moving images on electronic media (e.g., videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state s...

    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which...

  Optical effects (also called photographic effects) are the techniques in which images or film frames are created photographically, eithe...

    On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of ...

     a stunt double is often a stunt performer, specifically a skilled replacement, used for dangerous sequences or other sophisticated stun...

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

    With the help of advanced augmented reality technology (for example object recognition) it can be ensured that the added information can...

    There are many different types of video production. The most common include film and TV production, television commercials, internet com...

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

    Digital cinematography is the process of capturing (recording) a motion picture using digital image sensors rather than through film sto...

    Principal photography can take place in a studio or in an actual setting, and the choice of location depends on artistic and economic as...

    Rembrandt & His Contemporaries, History Paintings from The Leiden Collection This is a unique opportunity to admire art from a priva...

  Widescreen images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and compu...

  Amsterdam Canal District During the 17th century, Amsterdam was growing so fast it was practically bursting at the seams. The city expe...

  Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art in Amsterdam is the only museum in the Netherlands with a large (international) Outsider Art collectio...

    A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture hous...

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

  Amsterdam Museum wing From March 2022 until 2025, the Amsterdam Museum will present an entirely new collection in the Hermitage's Am...