Reshooting

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of filming a scene or shot once more, often to improve the quality or correct mistakes
2. Recreating or recording footage again, typically to replace or enhance the original shot
3. The process of shooting a part of a film or video again to ensure better results or fix errors

Etymology: "Reshooting" is formed from "re-" meaning "again" and "shooting," the present participle of "shoot" in its filmmaking sense. The verb "shoot" has meant to photograph or film since the early days of cinema, when cameras were called cinematographs and operators were said to shoot a scene, borrowing the older sense of aiming and firing a camera much as a gun is aimed. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin "re-" meaning "back" or "again," and English has attached it freely to verbs for centuries, so "reshoot" follows the same pattern as "rewrite" or "retake." The compound is transparent: a reshoot is simply a repeat of the shoot.

Synonyms: rerouting, revising, reshooting