filming

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of film.

   The crew is filming on location near the rocky coast.

   Filming through the night, the camera team captured the eruption.

   Note

   A participle that works with or without an object: the crew is filming, or the crew is filming the eruption. The same form also carries the older sense of a thin skin forming over something, so mist filming a window is the same word as a camera team filming a scene. Preceded by the or followed by of, it has become the noun for the activity.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act or process of recording moving images with a camera.

   The filming of the battle scene required hundreds of extras.

   Permits are needed before any filming can begin inside the national park.

   Similarshooting, recording

   Note

   Unlike the bare gerund, the noun takes articles, an of-phrase and even a plural: the filming of the battle scene, several filmings. It also sits before other nouns as a modifier, as in filming experiences. When the word instead takes an object or an adverb directly, as in filming the crowd or filming in a storeroom, it is the verb form at work.

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