The act of recording or shooting video footage, especially for movies, television shows, or digital content.
From 'film,' which originally referred to a thin layer or coating (from Old English 'filmen'), then was applied to the celluloid strip used in cameras. 'Filming' is the present participle, meaning the ongoing action of recording.
The word 'filming' stuck around even though we almost never use actual film anymore—we use digital cameras and phone screens! It's a ghost word, an artifact of technology that changed but whose name didn't, showing how language lags behind innovation.
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