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

    The origin of today's cinema is thanks to the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, who in 1895 developed a machine called the Cinema...

    The Portal is a series of sculpture attractions which videoconference between one another. Created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys...

     An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes, the context for a scene by showing the relationsh...

    In filmmaking and television production, zooming is the technique of changing the focal length of a zoom lens (and hence the angle of vi...

    The property master, often called the prop(s) master, is an artistic and organizational employee in a film, television or theatrical pro...

  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 di...

    The Film library  Dive into the art of visual storytelling with The Darkroom Rumour's handpicked collection of documentaries on phot...

    War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. I...

    The most common use of cutaway shots in dramatic films is to adjust the pace of the main action, to conceal the deletion of some unwante...

  Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment. Every cul...

    The set dresser on a movie is responsible for making the location of every scene look convincing. This may sound easy, but in the magica...

  Video editing is the post-production and arrangement of video shots. To showcase perfect video editing to the public, video editors must...

    The term "4K" is generic and refers to any resolution with a horizontal pixel count of approximately 4,000.: 2  Several differ...

    An axial cut is a type of jump cut, where the camera suddenly moves closer to or further away from its subject, along an invisible line ...

  Many traditional disciplines now integrate digital technologies, so the lines between traditional works of art and new media works creat...

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

     A freeze frame in a film is a deliberate choice to suddenly pause on a still frame, commonly used for the last shot or when a narrator ...

     A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a featur...

  Since the 2010s, digital movie cameras have become the dominant type of camera in the motion picture industry, being employed in film, t...

  Infotainment can generally be identified by its entertaining nature. Infotainment may also involve the use of flashy graphics, fast-pac...

  Location shooting usually requires a location manager, and locations are usually chosen by a location scout. Many popular locations, su...

  Escaping from conflicts or persecution According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, most of the people who arrived in...

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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...