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

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

     It's easy to think that buying or hiring expensive equipment will just yield great camera movements naturally; however, this isn...

  TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FILM MEDIUM Deakins works with directors who take advantage of the medium. This may be the most important advice y...

  Lighting a scene Using just a key light results in a high-contrast scene, especially if the background is not illuminated. A fill ligh...

    Find the right camera angle Both the shot size and camera framing is augmented by the various camera angles. For example, depending on t...

    Build up the tension It's important to include elements of visual tension, especially as your video approaches the denouement. Use ...

  Formats Different layers of video transmission and storage each provide their own set of formats to choose from. For transmission, there...

    Monochrome images are not direct renditions of their subjects, but are abstractions from reality, representing colors in shades of grey....

    Happenings are difficult to describe, in part because each one is unique. One definition comes from Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort in The ...

    Launched in 1965 by Eastman Kodak at the 1964–65 Worlds Fair, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial su...

    Traditionally, the "director's cut" is not, by definition, the director's ideal or preferred cut. The editing process ...

    The 30-degree rule is a basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject betw...

    The arrival of computers and the Internet in the 1980s created a global environment where videography covered many more fields than just...

     The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells' 1895 story, The Time Machine. In general, time trave...

  During his work as a doctor in Amsterdam , Sarphati encountered the bad hygiene among the poor in Amsterdam. His compassion for his pat...

    Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categorie...

    Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark ...

    There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film edi...

    A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art)...

    Concept art is a form of visual art used to convey an idea for use in films, video games, animation, comic books, television shows, or o...

  Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typi...

  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...