camerawork

From camera +‎ -work (suffix denoting a craft involving a particular material or tool).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmɹəwɜːk/, /ˈkæməɹəwɜːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmɹəˌwɝk/, /ˈkæməɹəˌwɝk/
• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra‧work

camerawork (countable and uncountable, plural cameraworks)

1. 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.

• → Japanese: カメラワーク (kamerawāku)

•   cinematography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   photography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “camerawork, n.” under “camera, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2010.
• “camerawork, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.