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

    A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a h...

    How Miniature Models in Film Make the Impossible Possible  Wondering how miniature models in film have been used to create otherwise imp...

  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...

     Elephant man In my opinion, this is the most powerful scene in the film; quiet but powerful. If you ever want to learn acting watch ...

  Hardware malfunction: In computer graphics, visual artifacts may be generated whenever a hardware component such as the processor, memor...

      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 lin...

    There are several fundamental camera moves that were developed right after the invention of motion picture cameras and are still used ...

    In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneou...

  After the launch of the satellite Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in 1957, satellite transmission technology was dramatically realised, wi...

  Those seeking to learn the technical craft of filmmaking in the early days of cinema were largely self-taught engineers or still photog...

      The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the Lumière brothers began motion picture exhibitions.The first Italian directo...

  A slide is a specially mounted individual transparency intended for projection onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the phot...

    There is increased interest in films originating in the Arab world. For example, films from Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Palestine, Syri...

    In filmmaking, a long take (also called a continuous take, continuous shot, or oner) is shot with a duration much longer than the conven...

  Kentridge has practiced expressionist art: form often alludes to content and vice versa. The feeling that is manipulated by the use of p...

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

    A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter...

     In 2008, a damaged print of Lang's original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina. According to the explanation in the...

  Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It ...

  Aerial perspective, or atmospheric perspective, refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as viewed from a ...

    Kurosawa, and his emphasis on sound-image counterpoint, by all accounts always gave great attention to the soundtracks of his films and ...

    Imaging is the representation or reproduction of an object's form; especially a visual representation (i.e., the formation of an ima...

    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...