film
A story shown in a cinema or on TV, made of moving pictures.
A story or event recorded by a camera and shown on a screen as a series of moving images.
To use a camera to make a movie or video.
To capture moving images using a camera for later viewing or broadcast.
A thin layer of something on the surface of something else.
A very thin layer of liquid, powder, or other substance that covers something.
Special material used in cameras to take pictures before digital cameras existed.
A thin strip or sheet of flexible material coated with light-sensitive emulsion used for taking photographs or motion pictures.
- Base: film
- Plural: film, films
- Base: film
- 3rd Person Singular: films
- Present Participle: filming
- Past: filmed
film crew
1Group making a movie/video
The group of people who work together to make a movie or TV show.
- The film crew set up cameras around the stage.
- She worked as part of a small film crew in Paris.
film set
1Place where movie scenes are filmed
The place where scenes for a movie are filmed, often made to look like another place.
- Visitors were not allowed on the film set during shooting.
- They built an entire street on the film set.
short film
1Movie under 40 minutes long
A movie that is much shorter than normal movies, often less than 40 minutes long.
- They entered their short film into the festival.
- The director became famous after making a short film.
feature film
1full-length main movie
A long movie that is the main one people come to see.
- His first feature film was released last year.
- The director’s first feature film won several awards.
- They are shooting a new feature film in New Zealand.
- They are shooting a new feature film in Paris.