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

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

    Many web sites include videos. Although not necessarily produced online, many video production tools allow the production of videos with...

  Why is Disney’s Snow White Under Fire? The controversy surrounding the film began before a trailer was released. Disney decided to g...

     

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

    Media activism is a broad category of activism that utilizes media and communication technologies for social and political movements. Me...

    Cinematic style In a 1962 interview, Tarkovsky argued: "All art, of course, is intellectual, but for me, all the arts, and cinema e...

    Mad Nest is the second Parisian film by Tajiri. It is a collage-like film in which Tajiri uses different techniques and image material...

      In filmmaking, a long take (also called a continuous take, continuous shot, or oner) is shot with a duration much longer than the conv...

    Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on the nature of the films they accompany. While the majority of...

    Excellent. Probably using Kodachrome film (because the colors are natural). Many people don't realize this, but film quality went ba...

     I have to say I love big format. I always loved medium format photography for instance. It's exposing a bigger negative. It's n...

    Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from...

    Tracking shots are where the camera follows or moves with a character. This usually means having the camera off the tripod, with the c...

    In filmmaking, the 180-degree rule[1] is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another ...

    What is now called Foley originated as adding sounds to live broadcasts of radio drama from radio studios around the world in the ea...

    A roadshow theatrical release or reserved seat engagement is the practice of opening a film in a limited number of theaters in major cit...

    His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phrase was coin...

    The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them...

  These cultural landscapes demonstrate an innovative, highly influential 19th-century model of pauper relief and of settler colonialis...

    The cinema of South Korea refers to the film industry of South Korea from 1945 to present. South Korean films have been heavily influenc...

    While some experimental films have been distributed through mainstream channels or even made within commercial studios, the vast major...

    Dance has become a popular form of content across many social media platforms, including TikTok. During 2020, TikTok dances offered the ...

  As early as 1906, various film entrepreneurs began to discuss the potential of home viewing of films, and in 1912, both Edison and Path...

    The Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. It supports Swedish filmmakings and all...

  Transmission of radio and television programs from a radio or television station to home receivers by radio waves is referred to as ...

    GIFs are suitable for sharp-edged line art with a limited number of colors, such as logos. This takes advantage of the format's loss...

     Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine ...

    Open Archief is a multifaceted, collaborative research project that explores the beauty and innovation that can be inspired by making ...

    In recent years, the role of graphic design in film has become more established, with more and more directors recognising the importance...

    A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forwar...

  Melodrama films are a subgenre of drama films characterized by plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience. Melodramati...

    The film Paradise Recollected is compiled out of archive material from The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and D...

    Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine l...

  Organizations sometimes seek publicity by staging newsworthy events that attract media coverage. They can be in the form of groundbreaki...

     historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the con...

    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...