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

  Filmmaking career:  Varda's filmmaking career predates the French New Wave, but contains many elements specific to that movement.  W...

  Before crewed flight was common, the term "bird's eye" was used to distinguish views drawn from direct observation at high...

    Creativity and Style: Your unique perspective distinguishes your work. Cinematic quality isn’t about perfection but about storytelling ...

    We are all influenced by nature. Every day. Even our minds depend on it. But nature is beginning to disappear from our world bit by bit....

    New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer grap...

    One of the objectives of Julien's work is to break down the barriers that exist between different artistic disciplines, drawing f...

    In intentional camera movement (ICM), a camera is moved during the exposure for a creative or artistic effect. In a sense, ICM is the s...

    Continuity editing uses a guideline called the "30-degree rule" to avoid the appearance of jump cuts. The 30-degree rule advis...

    Social media influencers can be described as opinion leaders who are able to influence the attitudes, behavior, opinions and purchasin...

    In film, a sequence is a series of scenes that form a distinct narrative unit, which is usually connected either by a unity of location ...

   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 ...

    A lost film is a feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private co...

    The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to th...

  Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits. The popularity of the daguerreotype in the middle of the 19th century was due...

  Slow cutting is a film editing technique characterized by frequent lengthy shots. Though it depends on context, it is estimated that any...

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

    A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a ...

     In filmmaking, the rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The term originates from the early days of filmmaking wh...

     A film essay (also essay film or cinematic essay) consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the fil...

     A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an...

    An actor or performer in a film who appears in a non-speaking or non-singing capacity, usually briefly and in the background, without an...

  Kraanspoor (translated as craneway) is a light-weight transparent office building of three floors built on top of a concrete craneway on...

  Filmax International is a Spanish motion picture production company and film distributor based in Barcelona, and one of Spain's large...

  Head shots often feature the actor or actress facing off-center. A performer will often have head shots expressing different poses and e...

    Film is considered to have its own language. James Monaco wrote a classic text on film theory, titled "How to Read a Film," th...

    A take is over when the director calls "Cut!" and the camera and sound stop recording. The script supervisor will note any con...

  Making a video requires many stylistic components, so much so that the pre-production phase can become overwhelmingly chaotic without car...

  Audiography,is the audio engineering performed by the sound department of a film or TV production; this includes sound recording, editin...

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

    Have a peek inside Krijtmolen d' Admiraal (chalkmill the Admiral) in Amsterdam-Noord (north) and check out what the miller has to do...

    The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and the art form that...

    Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video...

  Photo comics are a form of sequential storytelling that uses photographs rather than illustrations for the images, along with the usu...

    This is a little dance between Buster Keaton and Mikhail Kaufman made by max teeth for the Public Domain Day 2024 Remix Contes Cameras ...

    A media clip is a short segment of electronic media, either an audio clip or a video clip. Media clips may be promotional in nature, as...

    By varying the speed at which the image is captured, various effects can be created knowing that the faster or slower recorded image wil...

    Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition.[3] Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play ...

    The most common contemporary understanding of theme is an idea or point that is central to a story, which can often be summed in a singl...

 

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

    In film and video, a cutaway is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually fo...

    The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to th...

  I talian neorealism, also known as the Golden Age, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the wo...

     A teaser trailer (or simply a teaser) is a short trailer and a form of teaser campaign advertising that focuses on film and television ...

    In the 1960s a new film format, Super8, coincided with the advent of battery-operated electric movie cameras. The new film, with a large...

    Mexican cinema dates to the late nineteenth century during the rule of President Porfirio Díaz. Seeing a demonstration of short films ...

    The theoretical resolution of 35 mm film is greater than that of 2K digital cinema.[64][65] 2K resolution (2048×1080) is also only sligh...

    The most common uses of the wipe effect is the invisible wipe where a camera follows a person into another room by tracking parallel to ...

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

    A soundtrack is recorded sound accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television p...