filmmaking

noun

film·​mak·​ing ˈfilm-ˌmā-kiŋ How to pronounce filmmaking (audio)
: the making of movies

Examples of filmmaking in a Sentence

plans to attend New York University to learn filmmaking
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The Academy also issued its first formal guidance on AI in filmmaking. Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025 Screenwriters, who were treated by the front office as the disposable help, got a measure of revenge by portraying their employers as idiots or vulgarians whose sole role in filmmaking was to write the checks and gum up the works. Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025 Certainly, the back-and-forth suggests that PBS executives are not exactly crawling through the mud in defense of independent filmmaking. Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2025 But if there is a field in filmmaking that is kind of engineering for film, that’s really what visual effects is. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for filmmaking

Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of filmmaking was in 1912

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“Filmmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filmmaking. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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