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

Auditions are required for many reasons in the performing arts world. Often, employing companies or groups use auditions to select perform...

>Europeans were the pioneers of the motion picture industry, with several innovative engineers and artists making an impact especially ...

  Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both art...

    Pinto Ben is a 1915 silent film western short written, directed by and starring William S. Hart. It had an alternate title of Horns and ...

  Blender Studio is the creative unit of the free open source Blender project. Established in the Netherlands in 2007 by producer and comp...

  Cinematograph or kinematograph is an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. The name was used for movie cameras...

    Pick-up shots and re-shoots can also occur after principal photography is complete—after continuity, logic, or quality issues are identi...

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

Filmmaking also takes place outside of the mainstream and is commonly called independent filmmaking. Since the introduction of DV technol...

    The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest dif...

  Double 8 spools actually contain a 16 mm film with twice as many perforations along each edge as normal 16 mm film; on its first pass th...

 , "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale ") is an annual film festival held in Venice , Italy....

     A trailer is a product of creative and technical work. Movie trailers have now become popular on DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as on...

  Collage is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of...

Currently, standard virtual reality systems use either virtual reality headsets or multi-projected environments to generate some realist...

     A movie theater also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria fo...

    The Bible is the holy book of Christians not of Jews It is not a history book (although there may be some incidents in it that actually ...

  Video cameras originally designed for television broadcast were large and heavy, mounted on special pedestals and wired to remote record...

     If we are to believe the critics, nobody is really waiting for film adaptations of games. The incarnation of Super Mario Bros. is at be...

    Motion picture and television production use many of the same tools and methods of stage lighting. Especially in the early days of these...

      The building features two gallery exhibition spaces, one 300-seat cinema, two 127-seat cinemas, and a fourth intimate cinema of about ...

      The traditional first part of the post-production process, non-linear (analog) film editing, has mostly been replaced by digital or ...

   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...