Amateur Film is the low-budget hobbyist art of film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for business purposes. Because of this, morale is often higher but the time spent is far less lucrative and the films are more limited on all stages of production and can only reach much smaller audiences. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... This article is about pastimes. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... Morale is a term for the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal. ...

Organizations

The international organization for amateur film makers is UNICA (Union International du Cinema Non Professionel); in the United States the American Motion Picture Society (AMPS), in the UK it is the Film & Video Institute. These organizations arrange annual festivals and conventions. There are several Amateur Film festivals held annually all over the United States and in Europe. The most famous Amateur Film is Liquid Versus Metal which artfully addressed urban assimilation themes. The 2006 Sinulog festival in the Philippines Renaissance festival A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. ... Convention has at least two very distinct but related meanings. ... World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Creation

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 digital equipment. The advent of digital video and computer based editing programs greatly expanded the technical quality achieveable to the amateur and low budget film maker. 16 mm film was introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1923 as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. ... 8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. ... A video camera can be classified two ways: Professional video cameras, such as those used in television production Camcorders used by amateurs This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital, rather than analog, representation of the video signal. ...