1. 1n/ˈfɪlmˌmeɪkər/ · /ˈfɪlmˌmeɪkə/電影製作人;拍電影的人

    Someone who makes films as their job, especially the person who directs a film or the person who pays for it and organises it.

    film-maker 是「拍電影的人」的統稱,導演(director)跟製片(producer)都算在裡面。中文很容易一律翻成「導演」,但 film-maker 的範圍更大:只要是把一部片做出來的那個人,都可以這樣稱呼。maker 這個字尾可以想成「做出某樣東西的人」,就像 shoemaker(做鞋的人)、dressmaker(做衣服的人)一樣,film-maker 就是「做出電影的人」。

    示範例句 · Example

    Our teacher invited a young film-maker to talk to our class about her first movie.

    中文翻譯我們老師邀請了一位年輕的電影製作人來跟我們班談她的第一部電影。

    常見搭配

    • a young film-maker

      年輕的/剛起步的電影工作者

      someone who has just started making films

      The festival gives a prize to one young film-maker every year.

    • an independent film-maker

      獨立製片的人

      someone who makes films without a big film company paying for them

      As an independent film-maker, she raised the money herself.

    • a documentary film-maker

      紀錄片工作者

      someone who makes films about real people and real events

      The documentary film-maker lived in the village for a whole year.

    • an award-winning film-maker

      得過獎的電影工作者

      someone whose films have won prizes

      The talk was given by an award-winning film-maker from Taipei.

    • become a film-maker

      成為電影工作者

      to start working as someone who makes films

      She studied art first, and then became a film-maker.

core核心畫面

Two ordinary words stuck together: film + maker, the person who makes a film. The word points at whoever is genuinely behind the film as a whole — usually the director, sometimes the producer who finds the money and organises everything. It does not mean everyone who works on a film; a camera operator or an actor is not called a film-maker.

可以想成兩個很普通的字直接黏起來:film(電影)+ maker(做東西的人)= 把電影做出來的人。它指的是整部片背後真正在主導的那個人——通常是導演,有時是出錢、把整件事張羅起來的製片。要注意它並不泛指所有參與拍片的人:攝影師、演員不會被叫做 film-maker。

同家族的字

  • 名詞filmfilm-making

film-makers

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • filmmaker

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。