C'est le Toon
C'est Le Toon
Video is getting more and more an important means of communication. With a normal/simple camcorder everybody can make interesting video's too.Making a better video is a complete different story. Not because of technical difficulties, lack of experience or expensive devices, it is mere the creative ...
pelgrims-stops on the meseta
Many people have an interest in making films that have never studied officially or completed any training programs in regards to their filmmaking careers. If you are one of them, but love to play with your camera or film events while they happen, you may ...
The song of the Whale
The silent 16 mm format was initially aimed at the home enthusiast, but by the 1930s it had begun to make inroads into the educational market. The addition of optical sound tracks and, most notably, Kodachrome in 1935, gave an enormous boost to the 16 mm ...
the Beagle sails again
a Modest Mix of Beagle clipsTo celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birth year, Dutch VPRO is running a series called Beagle The three mast sailing ship Stad Amsterdam is rigged with advanced scientific measurement equipment and has a built-in TV studio from ...
the Beagle sails again
a Modest Mix of Beagle clipsTo celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birth year, Dutch VPRO is running a series called Beagle The three mast sailing ship Stad Amsterdam is rigged with advanced scientific measurement equipment and has a built-in TV studio from ...
About Ardeche
Shooting on DigitalThere are many options when looking at the digital route, from buying your own digital video camera (DV Cam), to hiring the highest quality High Definition (HD/Hi-Def) camera.It is difficult to compare HD to film as they are very ...
Climate change??
Climate scientists accused of 'manipulating global warming data'Some of the world’s top climate scientists have been accused of manipulating data on global warming after hundreds of private emails were stolen by hackers and published online. The ...
Salamanca once again
Source: archive.org.This 16 mm film on a trip to Spain and Portugal by Pieter Prinsen dates from 1992. It was transferred tot the archive by Filmcollectief Zandvoort, the Netherlands.Compared to my film of the same city (see blip file 56587) the colour ...
Death of the Dutch Republic
The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a , later movie based on the same source. With some exceptions, remakes make significant character, plot, and ...
Casa Anita
General Interest & Footage SourcesHome & Amateur – A blog about home movies and amateur film, whose contributors hail from the Center for Home Movies.Lost in Light – The documentation of a (now complete) free home movie transfer project, ...
Towards Tulle
Recently, the term mise en scène has come to represent a style of conveying the information of a scene primarily through a single shot—often accompanied by camera movement. It is to be contrasted with montage-style filmmaking—multiple ...
Dutch palace
Film preservationThe film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain. In the widest ...
Najera in Rioja
Info on Tape Formats:DV / Digital Video (domestic and professional)Video tape format primarily designed for the consumer market that records a 4:1:1 standard definition signal with a 5:1 compression ratio for a total bitrate of 25Mb/s. DV cassettes come ...
Pays Basque
At the edge of France and Spain, the Pays Basque is diverse in both landscape and culture. The Pays Basque is the French half of the former kingdom of Navarre, the mountainous ancestral home of the Basque people. The area was joined with the Kingdom of ...
Dommeldal near Eindhoven
HDV is a highly compressed high definition format. As a result, it is not naturally compatible with standard definition televisions or DVD players as such. However, both the camera and the VTR have a "down converted" output that can be used to play into ...
Capital of Rioja
Shooting on DigitalThere are many options when looking at the digital route, from buying your own digital video camera (DV Cam), to hiring the highest quality High Definition (HD/Hi-Def) camera.There is no question that, in most cases, HD looks better ...
Two french bridges
Whatever happened to the French New Wave? The technology of the late 1950s promised to free filmmakers from the constraints of cumbersome equipment and overly complex production techniques. This freedom was supposed to push creative boundaries in ...
French slapstick
Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense[ and sometimes includes ironic situations, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or running into a ...
Pictures of Spain
A photo slideshow is a collection of images to be displayed, usually in public. Early slideshows were often presented using a slide projector, where the original film is mounted on slides and simply projected as they are. However technological ...
Safari
Filming is a wonderful skill to develop. You can make it as simple or as complex as you want depending on your skill and desire. Most of the famous Hollywood directors actually started on their own. Think Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, George Lucas and ...