moviemaking
- noun
- /ˈmuːviˌmeɪkɪŋ/
- US
- Video content and digital moviemaking to laptop computing and handheld technologies can be used in classrooms.
- digital moviemaking
- Hollywood moviemaking
- the magic of moviemaking
Examples
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After years of studying film, she finally got her chance to participate in moviemaking on set.
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While acknowledging the collaborative nature of moviemaking, Tonderai made sure that everyone from actors to department heads to producers to crewmembers had an opportunity to share his vision.
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And moviemaking was a deadline business.
Fiction book (1990) -
As a bonus, the museum also gives a fascinating look at moviemaking and marketing around 1950.
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It's just like William Goldman said about moviemaking: Nobody knows anything.
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That's what moviemaking is all about.
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The bottom line is, at the end of the day, moviemaking is a collaborative art, and it's both the best thing about it and the worst thing about it.
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The question comes up in a fascinating article by my colleague David Denby in The New Republic about the state of moviemaking today.
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He is passionate about moviemaking and dreams of directing his own feature film one day.
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The school offers a program focused on moviemaking, teaching students everything from writing scripts to editing.
Synonyms
Work that people do to create films from idea to release
A process of planning, shooting, editing, and distributing movies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Moviemaking comes from the short word movie, which comes from the phrase 'moving picture' made of move ('to move') and picture ('image'), plus making ('to create'). So moviemaking is literally the creating of 'moving pictures', which is why it means the process of making films.