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film making

film making

1 3.2
A process of planning, shooting, editing, and distributing movies
  • noun
  • /fɪlm ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
translation icon : producción cinematográfica
  • He built a successful career in film making, collaborating with various talented actors and crews.

Best dressed Ashley, she's a young woman who graduated in film making last summer.

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Examples

  • Best dressed Ashley, she's a young woman who graduated in film making last summer.

  • I want someone with real film making talent.

  • And film making is what's in my blood, in my heart, if you like.

  • Because I fundamentally believe that every film is different, Every film making team is different.

  • And for me, like, you know, I studied film and narrative film making, and I thought I was going to be a feature film director.

  • But I also find that they are the most organised, most respectful, hardest-working department of any in film-making.

  • If you wanna do yourself a favour and learn about film-making, Google Curtis Crowe's "Ten Commandments of Film-making."

  • After years of hard work at film making, she finally produced her first feature-length movie.

  • The workshop on film making provided useful skills for aspiring directors and producers.

Synonyms

moviemaking
vsfilm making
  • US
5 3.4

Making movies from the first idea to the finished film

includes distribution and final release as part of the full process
movie making
vsfilm making
  • US
2 2.9

Work that people do to create films from idea to release

focuses on the full process including distribution at the end

How Ambitious

film making
1 3.2
videography
  • Specialized
1 4.4

Surface Forms

film making singular
film makings plural

Morphology

film + making

The meaning 'the process of producing movies' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'film' (movie) with 'making' (the act of creating). This noun+gerund composition is a common, productive pattern in English (and mirrors constructions in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Film making comes from the simple, literal idea of film as a strip of moving pictures and making as putting many parts together to build a story on screen. So today film making means 'producing movies' from the first idea to the final version.