Film-craft
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Film-craft is a noun meaning The art or craft of making movies; cinematography.
Meaning
The art or craft of making movies; cinematography.
Example Sentences
Almost all techniques of film-craft have been tried out in Hollywood, and the result has been near perfection of cinematic art.
Perhaps none of the other filmcrafts, excepting costumes, have been so comparatively open to, and often dominated by, Hollywood's women.
I think it would be possible to make La Nuit Americaine as a first film. Experience and film-craft are required and one obviously has less film-craft at the beginning of one's career.
Word Forms
- film-crafts
- filmcraft
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cinematography, kinematography, moviemaking, camerawork, direction, filming.
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