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

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  Bergen op Zoom is a city in the Netherlands, close to the border with Belgium. It has about 67,000 people living there. The city is famo...

     In the early years of film there were no real cinemas. Film was seen as a fairground attraction. Traveling cinemas traveled from town t...

    Life at the castle The castle was the summer residence of the lords and marquises of Bergen op Zoom. Many people lived and worked at ...

      Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing "formal qualities that mark them as different f...

    A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film for still imag...

  straight 8 began in london in 1999. it’s now a global filmmaking challenge every filmmaker should try… • can you make a great film on j...

  Film colorization is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia, or other monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done as...

  Sound recording began as a purely mechanical process. Except for a few crude telephone-based recording devices with no means of amplifica...

 

  When applied to the cinema, mise-en-scène refers to everything that appears before the camera—the sets, props, costumes, actors, and eve...

  Post-production This stage is usually thought of as starting when principal photography ends, but they may overlap. The bulk of post-p...

    Most films use either a casting agency or a casting director to find actors to match the roles in the film, apart from the lead actors, ...

    Collage film is a style of film created by juxtaposing found footage from disparate sources (archival footage, excerpts from other films...

  Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, television series, short or special to the public immediately on h...

  In motion picture and television production, a sound effect is a sound recorded and presented to make a specific storytelling or creative ...

    In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, casting, or a casting call, is a pre-production process for select...

    8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimetres (0.31 in) wide. It exists in two main versions – ...

    The growing popularity and availability of non-linear editing systems has allowed film-makers and any user of film to shoot Super 8 film...

    Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video cameras or d...

    If Aalsmeer is the beating heart of the international flower trade, then Royal FloraHolland is the main vein. It is the largest marketpl...

    Media literacy is an expanded conceptualization of literacy that includes the ability to access and analyze media messages as well as cr...

  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...