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

    The first film cameras were fastened directly to the head of a tripod or other support, with only the crudest kind of leveling devices p...

    In 19th-century Europe, "Naturalism" or the "Naturalist school" was somewhat artificially erected as a term represen...

    A parody also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, or lampoon) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—i...

    Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it is...

    Pulling focus" refers to the act of changing the camera lens's focus distance to a moving subject's distance from the foc...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenu...

  The most common sports subgenres depicted in movies are sports drama and sports comedy. Both categories typically employ playground setti...

    Since the invention of digital technology and audio sampling, many modern films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the...

    Unique storytelling which features real, pure emotion.  A wedding film more than just a wedding film – it’s an experience. We all dream ...

       In Search of Humanity is his most comprehensive retrospective to date. Including paintings, cultural ready-mades, works made from LEG...

  Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that pre...

      A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the ...

  Photography was the basis for the moving images that later developed into cinematography. In the 1870s Eadweard Muybridge, an English phot...

      A master shot (or short master) is a film recording of an entire dramatized scene, start to finish, from a camera angle that keeps all...

  Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The ...

A sound stage (also written soundstage ) is a soundproof, large structure, building, or room with large doors and high ceilings, used ...

    Stop motion animator and director Victor Haegelin is better known as Patagraph on Instagram. In this episode of Creators, we visit his...

  The Blender Foundation is a Dutch nonprofit organization (Stichting) responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D conte...

    " >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...