footage

«footage» in Mova's school dictionary: Film or video recordings of an event — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Film or video recordings of an event. tree →

2) (old, measuring) A length measured in feet. tree →

sense in the lessons

In news and everyday life, «CCTV footage» or «footage of the storm» means video. In media lessons, pupils learn that footage can be edited or even faked, so check where it came from. Phrases: «video footage», «CCTV footage», «news footage», «behind-the-scenes footage».

examples

• The news showed footage of the floods. tree →
• Police checked the CCTV footage. tree →
• We watched old footage of the moon landing. tree →
• The footage was shaky because it was filmed on a phone. tree →
• Behind-the-scenes footage showed how the film was made. tree →
• Footage can be edited, so always ask where it came from. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some footage», not «a footage». Comes from film being measured in feet. Media literacy: a clip can be cut, slowed or taken out of context to mislead.

In the corpora

• Watching real footage, such as a nest camera, is a good way to test a claim about how birds behave.
• Old videos are often shared with new captions as if they were happening now; this is called recycled footage.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «footage» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.