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moviemaking

moviemaking

5 3.4
Making movies from the first idea to the finished film
  • noun
  • /ˈmuːviˌmeɪkɪŋ/
  • US
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  • 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

  • After years of studying film, she finally got her chance to participate in moviemaking on set.

  • 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.

    Blog text (24)
  • It's just like William Goldman said about moviemaking: Nobody knows anything.

    Blog text (17)
  • That's what moviemaking is all about.

    Academic text (2011)
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The school offers a program focused on moviemaking, teaching students everything from writing scripts to editing.

Synonyms

movie making
vsmoviemaking
  • US
2 2.9

Work that people do to create films from idea to release

stops at editing and does not include final release
film making
vsmoviemaking
1 3.2

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

ends at editing rather than including distribution

Surface Forms

moviemaking singular
moviemakings plural

Morphology

moviemaking = movie + making (transparent) = movie + make + ing

A straightforward compound of 'movie' + 'making' (make + -ing), meaning the process of producing movies.

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.