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

   In cinematography and photography, panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position. This motion is s...

    The development of home movie-making has depended critically on the availability of equipment and media formats (film stock, video tape,...

     A technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured is much lower than the frequency at which they are played back whe...

     In filmmaking, a pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a s...

     In filmmaking, a pick-up is a small, relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot. When a p...

  Determining which films should count as the first educational films is controversial. Some researchers suggest that the first educationa...

    Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, television programs and newsreel...

    Genre is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions...

    Film, as a form of mass communication, is itself also considered a medium in the sense used by fields such as sociology and communicatio...

    Eye Filmmuseum presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands about the work of Catalan film and theatre director Albert Serra. Tran...

    Montage is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information. Montages en...

  Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might...

  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...

    A story is a short sequence of images, videos, or other social media content, which can be accompanied by backgrounds, music, text, s...

    Study Your Favorite Movies First thing’s first: What is it about the cinematic effect that moves you enough to want to replicate them ...

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

  Celluloid Remix 2: Found Footage.  EYE and Beelden voor de Toekomst organised this video remix competition with historical fragments fr...

  A sequence shot is a shot, a long take, that includes a full narrative sequence containing the full scene in its duration, meaning diffe...

  Tell a Story Just because photographs capture a single instant doesn’t mean they can’t also communicate a narrative. After all, what are...

  Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or...

  Mood What separates cinematic images from others is that you can virtually feel them. Mood is the most essential element of cinema, afte...

       A film's genre will influence the use of filmmaking styles and techniques, such as the use of flashbacks and low-key lighting in...

  This lesson is moving learning. Because you move and name the language and arithmetic forms, you learn the language and arithmetic forms...

     In dance, choreography. may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. Dance choreograph...

     In 1939, during World War II, the film industry in the US and Europe declined, because the materials previously destined for film produ...

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

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

  Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to conve...

    The Dutch angle shot finds its roots in German Expressionism, an artistic movement that emerged in the early 20th century. Filmmakers du...

  Processing is a free graphics library and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts, new media art, and vi...

  One of the set dresser’s primary responsibilities is to select the props that will decorate every scene. If it’s a period film, it’s esp...

    The documentary Bye Bye Tiberias is Lina Soualem’s second. It is a beautiful, delicate and intimate tale of four generations of women fr...

    Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for fut...

    Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the ...

    Most early filmmakers, such as Thomas Edison, Auguste and Louis Lumière and Georges Méliès, tended not to use close-ups and preferred ...

  Postmodernist film is a classification for works that articulate the themes and ideas of postmodernism through the medium of cinema. Som...

    A web film is a film made with the medium of the Internet and its distribution constraints in mind.  This term aims to differentiate con...

  The film editor works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film ...

    A streaming media service (also simply called a streaming service) is an online platform that allows users to watch or listen to content...

    All film stocks decompose over time. Sometimes this decomposition is irreversible — which explains why an estimated 75% of American sile...

  Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognized state that controls a part of Transnistria (the ...

    The advent of digital sound recording and later the compact disc (CD) in 1982 brought significant improvements in the quality and durabi...

  Sex in film, the presentation of aspects of sexuality in film, specially human sexuality, has been controversial since the development o...

  Film criticism is also labeled as a type of writing that perceives films as possible achievements and wishes to convey their differences,...

    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...