filmfilm2 ●●○ verb [intransitive, transitive] 
The love scenes are sensitively filmed. She’s in South Africa filming a documentary for the BBC. a thriller filmed entirely on location in Washington—filming noun [uncountable]: Filming starts in October.film over phrasal verb if your eyes film over, they become covered with a thin layer of liquid
VERB TABLE
film
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | film |
| he, she, it | films | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | filmed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have filmed |
| he, she, it | has filmed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had filmed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will film |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have filmed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am filming |
| he, she, it | is filming | |
| you, we, they | are filming | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was filming |
| you, we, they | were filming | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been filming |
| he, she, it | has been filming | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been filming |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be filming |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been filming |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- They filmed the movie off the west coast of Ireland.
- We need permission to film in some of those old churches.
- He received 2,000 fan letters a week and, when filming, had no less than 18 stand-ins lined up.
- It's a very austere movie, filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
- One of their captors filmed the shootings with a video camera.
- The bungy jumping was filmed on video.
WORD SETS
agent, nounbill, nounblack comedy, nouncasting, nouncomedy, nouncommentator, nouncostume drama, noundialogue, noundirect, verbdirector, noundocudrama, noundocumentary, noundocumentary, adjectivedramatize, verbdub, verbedit, verbeditor, nounedutainment, nounfilm, verbFX, grip, nounlead, nounmegastar, nounmerchandising, nounmix, verbmixer, nounmultimedia, adjectivenarration, nounorgan, nounpan, verbpanel, nounpanellist, nounpap, nounpersonality, nounpublicity, nounraconteur, nounrecast, verbrehearsal, nounrehearse, verbreissue, verbreprise, nounrerun, verbscript, nounshow business, nounsketch, nounsound, nounsound effects, nounspecial effect, nounstar, verbstarlet, nounstory, nounsubplot, nounsuperstar, nounthriller, nounweepy, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a thriller filmed entirely on location in WashingtonCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He’s working on a screen adaptation of his latest novel. She has already appeared in a number of films. His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’. Do you remember any funny stories about work? a quality furniture maker a leading Japanese computer maker a mass-market paperback priced at $8.99
a thriller filmed entirely on location in Washington· the movie actor Brad Pitt
He’s working on a screen adaptation of his latest novel. She has already appeared in a number of films.· the annual British music awards
· Karl trained the movie camera on him.
· They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
· The film crew were making a political documentary.
· He became the chief music critic for the Herald Tribune.
His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’.· the film director Stephen Spielberg
· This book is a must for all film fans.
· The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Do you remember any funny stories about work? (=one not made or produced by a large film production company)
(=the work of producing films or music)· She would really like to work in the music industry.
a quality furniture maker a leading Japanese computer maker a mass-market paperback priced at $8.99· He had listened patiently to his client’s sad story about her awful life.
(=said when you think the book or film only expresses the author or director's own interests, which are not interesting to other people)
(=a film that has been made to be shown on television, not in a cinema)· Ford appeared in several television movies.
· A television crew were allowed to film the meeting.
(=a film of a book or play)· He appeared in the film version of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.
· They were watching a film on TV.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· The stunt took two years to perfect, and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second.· Then came the day that bought a video camera and filmed me ironing.· But in the second half when the Glenavon fans were creating trouble the cameras did not film them!· There is just one television camera for filming.
· They can also send out crews quite easily to film their parliament or people.
· Before then, the Beatles squeezed recording into a schedule that included constant touring and the filming of two movies.
· Reed delayed filming his scenes in the hope that Brando might change his mind, but finally he gave up and quit.· He and his co-stars describe how scary it was filming the battle scenes in their new movie.· Miss Perrie was about to film key scenes for Coronation Street when she was dramatically taken ill.· They were rehearsed and filmed like scenes with dialogue.
· Sarah, whose show is a worldwide ratings hit, is now filming another series.
· End of October, and the day of filming the actual show at Granada's Manchester studios becomes reality.· We recorded nearly every night after filming the television show.
· He is filmed by a video surveillance camera.· The bungy jumping was filmed on video.· He was filmed by video security cameras leaving the shops with two youths.
VERB· Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming.· The Matrix sequels are due to begin filming in California in March.
· When we started filming she was very shy but she got better as she went along and she picked up confidence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► feel-good film/programme/music etc► hard-boiled film/thriller/fiction etc► naughty jokes/magazines/films etc
to use a camera to record a story or real events so that they can be shown in the cinema or on television: - All the energy and excitement in this live-action remake of the much-loved Disney animated film went into merchandizing and marketing.
- Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
- Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
- Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
- The two animated films are the No. 1 and No. 2 top-selling movie videos of all time.
- There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
- Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
- For the real film buff, however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.
- Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs.
- It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express.
- Rubbish, I hear all you wine buffs out there say.
- Brad Pitt in the cult film Fight Club was a fraudulent soap salesman.
- He became a cult figure in which notions of salvation by innocent suffering have a place.
- He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure.
- He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band, the Grateful Dead.
- Healing spas were based on a local cult figure and the devotees underwent rituals which included bathing and communal eating.
- I start by telling him that he's quite the cult figure here in Annapolis, and he looks stunned.
- This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.
- Vanessa Nygaard is a cult figure waiting to happen, a gale-force personality blowing through Maples Pavilion.
- Minerals giving very low intensity emission, such as quartz grains, required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films.
- How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
- So it is saved from looking like a slasher movie with pretensions, or a sub-Joe Eszterhas chiller.
- He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
- His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play.
- They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
The love scenes are sensitively filmed. She’s in South Africa filming a documentary for the BBC. a thriller filmed entirely on location in Washington—filming noun [uncountable]: Filming starts in October.film over phrasal verb if your eyes film over, they become covered with a thin layer of liquid- generalized
- general knowledge
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- generate
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- unrepeatable
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- unrequited
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