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

    The term time-lapse can also apply to how long the shutter of the camera is open during the exposure of each frame of film (or video), a...

  TÜRKIYE Turkish photographer Ci Demi’s take on Istanbul is uncanny in its ability to represent corners and fleeting moments where pain and...

In 1921 Mazairac became national champion for the amateur sprinters for the first time. He also came second in the championship over 30 k...

  Films Without Borders (FWB) provides hands-on educational filmmaking workshops for youth aged 15 – 20, living in challenging countries...

  The glass armonica is truly one of the strangest musical instruments in the world. Invented by founding father Benjamin Franklin, the conc...

 

  Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a l...

    Comedy is a genre that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre...

  While some experimental films have been distributed through mainstream channels or even made within commercial studios, the vast majo...

  Slow cutting is a film editing technique characterized by frequent lengthy shots. Though it depends on context, it is estimated that a...

    As rights vary by country and jurisdiction, a work may be subject to rights in one country and be in the public domain in another. Some ...

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

During carnaval brass bands,dweilorkesten (ambling orchestra. The word dweilen generally means "to mop" in Dutch, but in this co...

  Carnaval songs are a relatively recent phenomenon after World War II. Carnaval music is often a song written especially for the occasi...

     In photography and cinematography, available light (also called ambient light or practical light) refers to any source of light that is...

    The term speed comes from the early days of photography. Photographic emulsions that were more sensitive to light needed less time to ge...

    The Brutalist employed VistaVision and 70mm film formats to achieve its unique aesthetic.  Here’s the summary of their use: VistaVision...

 

  Archive footage, library pictures, and file footage is film or video footage that can be used again in other films. Stock footage is be...

    A miniature effect is a special effect created for motion pictures and television programs using scale models. Scale models are often co...

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things -- because things are so sad, so terrible. If...

  Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to anot...

    A man says goodbye to Earth as he prepares to fly to the Moon and stay there forever. Created for the 2025 Public Domain Day Remix Conte...

     The basis of all animation is the building up, frame by frame, of the moving picture by exact timing and choreography of both movement ...

    The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. They are presented a...

    An instructional video is any type of educational video. It’s a general term that unites different types of videos that contain educatio...

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

Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 1992 and 1993,The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card t...

     1929 The film Man with a Movie Camera represents AN EXPERIMENTATION IN THE CINEMATIC COMMUNICATION Of visual phenomena WITHOUT THE USE ...

  Video art is named for the original analog video tape, which was the most commonly used recording technology in much of the form's ...

     Our short film contest serves as a platform for filmmakers to explore, remix, and breathe new life into the timeless gems that have ent...

    David Lynch grew up in Philadelphia, where he initially tried to make it as a painter. After having worn out numerous art schools, he...

     In the post-production process of film and video editing, a dissolve (sometimes called a lap dissolve) is a type of film transition in ...

  Vervaardiger Wim van Prooijen Auteursrechthouder Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) Origineel Collectie Wim van Prooijen Bron...

  The raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture, traditionally the first positive prints developed from the negatives...

  Most storyboard artists begin and finish their work on computers using software and digital pencils or a graphics tablet. Storyboard art...

  Many continuity errors are subtle, such as minor changes between shots (like the level of drink in a glass or the length of a cigarette...

     The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a present...

    The Public Domain Race by José Domingues e Leonardo Domingues Item Size 297.5M   “THE PUBLIC DOMAIN RACE” was created as par...

  Mise-en-scène has been called film criticism's "grand undefined term. It has been criticized for its focus on the dramatic des...

  Contemporary use Since the late 1960s, few mainstream films have been shot in black-and-white. The reasons are frequently commercial, ...

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

  Location shooting often takes place close to the studio; in Hollywood films, this region is delineated in union agreements and is known ...

    A project to perceive space in a different way. High up in the tower your perception of the surrounding polder and the salt marsh landsc...

  Unlike other motion picture film stock of the time, Polavision film reproduces color by the additive method, like the much earlier Dufa...

  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 his...

     A movie star (also known as a film star or cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in movies. The ...

  The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, arch...

  Procedural content generation Procedural content generation (PCG) is an AI technique to autonomously create ingame content through al...

  The red carpets, the photographers, the fame… There is a lot of excitement that goes on at film festivals and as someone looking to ma...