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cinematographer

cinematographer

20 7.0
A person who uses the camera and sets the lights for films
  • noun
  • /ˌsɪnəˈmætəɡrəfər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : director de fotografía
  • Have you ever dreamed of being a Hollywood producer, director, writer, or cinematographer?
  • director and cinematographer

I think the most important part for cinematographer is his relationship with the director.

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Examples

  • Olinsky was the director and Astolfi the cinematographer.

  • But Chung-hoon Chung's a master cinematographer.

  • And I found you a cinematographer.

  • I wanna be a nature cinematographer.

  • You know, usually a cinematographer meets with a director and goes, "Let's watch movies.

  • When the top cinematographers need a B camera operator, do you know who they call?

  • Beginning in the early 1940s, Technicolor began allowing some studio cinematographers to handle shooting on their own.

    Academic text (1998)
  • I've hired a crew of experts from Walt Disney Studios, the best wildlife cinematographers around.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Emilio Fernandez has been considered the cinematographer who best expresses the ideas of nationalism and Mexicanness.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Govinda is now working as a cinematographer on his first independent movie.

Synonyms

dop
vscinematographer
  • Jargon
9.9

A person who controls camera work and lighting for a film

is the full job title rather than an abbreviation

How Experienced

dop
  • Jargon
9.9
cinematographer
  • Specialized
20 7.0
trainee
50 2.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

cinematographer = cinematograph (opaque) = cinema + graph + er

The word is formed with the agentive suffix -er, but the modern profession meaning depends on the historical term 'cinematograph' and is not directly recoverable from the visible parts for most learners.

Etymology

The word cinematographer comes from cinema, from a Greek word meaning 'movement', and the ending -grapher, like in photographer, which means 'one who records'. So, a cinematographer is literally someone who 'records movement', which is why they control camera work and lighting to create a film's look.