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

  Stock illustrations (often called stock photographs) used by creative professionals as a method of visual communication. They are found i...

    Telling a story In a dramatic motion picture, the story is told by many people. The cinematographer tells the story with the camera....

     A cold open (also called a teaser sequence) is a narrative technique used in television and films. It is the practice of jumping direct...

  Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, employed or developed, such as multiple exposur...

    A docudrama, in which historical fidelity is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely "based on true events"...

    The Bandanese trade with the English, Portuguese and Dutch. The VOC tried, without success, to gain a monopoly on the nutmeg trade. The ...

  A hidden camera or spy camera is a camera used to photograph or record subjects, often people, without their knowledge. The camera may be ...

    Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail ...

    “The paintings have been found!” Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, exclaimed in a statement last fall. Fourteen ...

    Telling a story In a dramatic motion picture, the story is told by many people. The cinematographer tells the story with the camera. Th...

        Eye Collection Center Eye opened its revamped Collection Center in 2016. The collection is made up of analog, digitized, and born-di...

  Stalker vision or monster vision is a cinema technique used to convey a sense of being watched. Often used in horror movies to inspire dr...

    The word art derives from the Latin "ars" (stem art-), which, although literally defined means "skill method" or ...

    The term ENG was created as television news departments moved from film-based news gathering to electronic field production technology i...

  Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional screenwriter, just good storytelling abilities and...

     In the past decades, fossil fuel giants have paid millions in lobbying to keep Europe hooked on gas while blocking a transition to rene...

    Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved...

  Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious be...

    Film can have an impact on society, but making a film is not the same as social change. Through Impact Production, filmmakers and video ...

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

  Observation is a dying art. Yet it’s the first skill you should master in order to write great stories. When choosing what story to tel...

      In 1826, Nicéphore Niépce first managed to fix an image that was captured with a camera, but at least eight hours or even several days...

    Super 8 mm film is a motion-picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or...

    The terms aerial view and aerial viewpoint are also sometimes used synonymous with bird's-eye view. The term aerial view can refer t...

  Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert...

  Pivoting or swivelling a camera horizontally about a fixed vertical axis, usually somewhat slowly, similar to the motion of a person tur...

      An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that an audienc...

    A shot in which the camera moves alongside or parallel to its subject. Traditionally tracking shots are filmed while the camera is mount...

      The films of the German director Werner Herzog are gripping and unorthodox. The exhibition Werner Herzog - The Ecstatic Truth at the E...

    16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film. 16 mm refers to the width of the film (about 2⁄3 inch); other common ...

    Light painting, painting with light, light drawing, or light art performance photography are terms that describe photographic techniqu...

    BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD goes to the film "Exodus - a journey to the mountain of God" by Alon Bar & Eitan Bin-Noun. The 52-m...

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

    Colonialism has existed since ancient times. In the modern period, the concept is most strongly associated with the European and Japan...

    The film had a troubled production, chronicled in the documentary Burden of Dreams (1982). Herzog had his crew attempt to manually haul ...

    Conventions toward a general cinematic language also developed, with editing camera movements and other cinematic techniques contribut...

  A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is...

    Digital recording and reproduction converts the analog sound signal picked up by the microphone to a digital form by the process of samp...

  Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters. These combats are usually the fil...

    The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film productio...

     A scene is a part of a film, as well as an act, a sequence (longer or shorter than a scene), and a setting (usually shorter than a scen...

    A point of view shot (also known as POV shot, first-person shot or subjective camera) is a film scene—usually a short one—that is shot a...

    Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term. It has been criticized for its focus on the dramatic desi...

  Museum De Dageraad Behind the wave-shaped facade of the famous working-class housing complex De Dageraad, you will find information abo...

    A basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject between successive shot...

>Diva is the Latin word for a goddess. It has often been used to refer to a celebrated woman of outstanding talent in the world of ope...

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