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movie making

movie making

2 2.9
Work that people do to create films from idea to release
  • noun
  • /ˈmuːvi ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
  • US
translation icon : producción de películas
  • The workshop provided insights into the process of movie making, from scriptwriting to directing.

He knew what movie making and writing was about.

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Examples

  • The very first thing that occurred to me, almost immediately, was that I wanted to write a novel that was made into a movie and be able to have a small hand in the movie-making process.

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  • So the dream of movie making, I just kind of just lent into it.

  • He knew what movie making and writing was about.

  • Here at Brown Entertainment... ...we take the scientific approach to movie-making: market research.

  • Massachusetts continues to be a hotbed for movie-making on the East Coast.

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  • The chemistry between these two, combined with Affleck's steadfast directing capabilities, really set the stage for great movie making.

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  • In the summer of 1990, we are meeting in a lovely home perched a few dozen meters below the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign that crowns the brown hills above the movie-making capital.

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  • She enrolled in a class to learn the intricacies of movie making and gain practical skills.

  • The documentary explored the art of movie making and featured interviews with famous directors.

Synonyms

moviemaking
vsmovie making
  • US
5 3.4

Making movies from the first idea to the finished film

is identical in meaning but written as one word
film making
vsmovie making
1 3.2

A process of planning, shooting, editing, and distributing movies

uses a more informal everyday word instead of the formal term

How Big

blockbuster
81 2.6
studio
791 3.2
movie making
  • US
2 2.9
home movie
34 2.8

Surface Forms

movie making singular
movie makings plural

Morphology

movie + making

The meaning is directly compositional: 'movie' (a film) + 'making' (the act of producing) yields 'the activity of producing movies', a standard noun–noun compound. This follows common English and cross‑linguistic patterns (e.g., filmmaking/film production), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The phrase movie making comes from the old idea of 'moving pictures', which are pictures that move on a screen. So the word movie, short for 'moving picture', plus making became a simple way to say 'the process of producing movies'.