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

  Continuity editing uses a guideline called the "30-degree rule" to avoid the appearance of jump cuts. The 30-degree rule adv...

      The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art. The te...

     Source material or symbolic sources are objects meant to communicate information, either publicly or privately, to some person, known ...

  The interviewer is usually a professional or paid researcher, sometimes trained, who poses questions to the interviewee, in an altern...

     During the 1980s, video distributors gradually realized that many consumers did want to build their own video libraries, and not just r...

    pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra to land the role of a character in a script, scre...

      From the year the VOC was founded in 1602 until 1700, an estimated 317,000 people of international descent sailed on VOC vessels. Betw...

  Early photographs in the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries were often developed in black and white, as an alternative to sepia due...

      A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film's produ...

     Van de Ven's film debut as an actress was in the Paul Verhoeven film Turkish Delight in 1973. This film was an immediate breakthrou...

     Plot  Outside the Lines Three young queer people share their experiences of deviating from the cis-heteronorm. Being outside the norm ...

"Labubu craze" refers to the global hype surrounding toy figures of the character Labubu, a sharp-toothed "elf" with a m...

     The oldest known surviving film in the world, Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), was shot in England by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Ear...

  Costume is the distinctive style of dress and/or makeup of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, occupation, ethnicity, ...

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

      Hans Florian Zimmer; born 12 September 1957) is a German film composer and music producer. He has received numerous accolades, includi...

     Time-lapse photography is a technique in which the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than the ...

     Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean and consequently had a troubled production, going over budget and sched...

  Drawing heavily from the theories of literary-genre criticism, film genres are usually delineated by "conventions, iconography, s...

  The Cité du Cinéma or Studios of Paris is a film studio complex originally supported and founded by the film director and producer Luc Bes...

  Day for night is a set of cinematic techniques used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. It is often employed when it i...

  The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The speci...

     Optical effects (also called photographic effects) are the techniques in which images or film frames are created photographically, eith...

  A "sack" is an edited set of video clips for a news story and is common on television. It is typically narrated by a reporter. I...

  Van Warmerdam has further developed into an established filmmaker with a recognizable signature of alienation, dark humor, and pictur...

     The Cinema Museum is a museum in Kennington, London. Its collection was founded in 1986 by Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries, from thei...

  a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Užupis means "beyond the river" or "the other side of the river" in the Lithuanian l...

   \ A test screening, or test audience, is a preview screening of a film or television series before its general release to gauge audience ...

     Film noir is a style of Hollywood crime dramas that emphasizes cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally reg...

     Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the pra...

     The film is widely considered Kubrick's magnum opus, as well as one of the best comedy films and one of the greatest and most influ...

     The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the B...

      Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. Varda's work employed location shooting in an...

     A filmography is a list of films related by some criteria. For example, an actor's career filmography is the list of films they hav...

  A no-budget film is a film made with very little or no money. Actors and technicians are often employed in these films without remuner...

  Videos showing how objects change over time This can be snapshot-videos of animals moving, traffic signals, eclipses, scientific experimen...

     Cult films trace their origin back to controversial and suppressed films kept alive by dedicated fans. In some cases, reclaimed or redi...

  In short, film is an art form that tells us stories and allows us to laugh, cry, learn, and reflect. It is an intriguing combination of im...

    Source criticism (or information evaluation) is the process of evaluating an information source, i.e.: a document, a person, a speech,...

     Similar to a writer, a photojournalist is a reporter, but they must often make decisions instantly and carry photographic equipment, of...

  Editing is one of the most important tools a filmmaker has to express themselves and/or tell a story. Existing images can take on a co...

     From 1894 to the late 1920s, movies were silent films. Silent film actors emphasized body language and facial expression, so that the a...

  The expression "Kill your darlings" is often attributed to British author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who advised, in a lectur...

     A dissolve overlaps two shots for the duration of the effect, usually at the end of one scene and the beginning of the next, but may al...

Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel reportedly carried rocks in their pockets during the premiere of their first film Un Chien Andalou, anticipati...

    For films, the art director is responsible for translating the production designer’s vision into the real world with sets, props, an...

Cottagecore is an internet aesthetic and subculture concerned with an idealised rural lifestyle. The aesthetic centres on traditional an...

     The exhibition reveals not only what people eat, but also who eats it, when, and where. Prints, paintings, drawings, and photographs de...

    Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfir...