camerawork
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From camera + -work (suffix denoting a craft involving a particular material or tool).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæmɹəwɜːk/, /ˈkæməɹəwɜːk/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæmɹəˌwɝk/, /ˈkæməɹəˌwɝk/
- Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra‧work
Noun[edit]
camerawork (countable and uncountable, plural cameraworks)
- Skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera.
- 2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2019:
- Thanks to the camerawork, costuming, and production design, every shot is a carefully composed portrait, every inch of the frame occupied by an object, fabric, or shadow that informs the characters or narrative.
Descendants[edit]
- → Japanese: カメラワーク (kamerawāku)
Translations[edit]
skill or technique involving the use of a camera, especially a video camera
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Further reading[edit]
- cinematography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- photography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “camerawork, n.” under “camera, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, November 2010.
- “camerawork, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.