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  • verb Present participle of make off.

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  • The recording of the director and actors describing the making of a film. Apparently making off is making inroads in quite a few languages.

    Spanish - "un tutorial podría ser un making off"

    French - "Il s'agirait d'une video du making-off du film Titanic"

    Portuguese - "Participar do 'making off' dessas fotos maravilhosas"

    Italian - "Così mi è venuta l'idea del making off, che nella prima stesura rappresentava quasi il sessanta per cento del film"

    German - "Nachdem es ja jetzt hip ist über alles und jeden ein Making off zu machen" (note the capitalisation as is standard for nouns in German)

    Dutch - "Vandaag is op het net het making-off filmpje opgedoken waarbij je de 'gangster' aan het werk kunt zien"

    Slovak - "Prosim ta ked by si mal niekedy cas mohol by si uploadnut nieco z nasledujucich making off´s" (note the English plural, the Slovak plural would be 'making off-ov'

    Czech - "V upoutávce na making off zvolili dost úsměvné věty")

    Polish - "Strona składa się z 4 dużych części: portfolio agencji, nagrody, szkolenia i making-off, czyli kulisów produkcji"

    Hungarian - "Föleg ha egy making off-ot megnézünk a GT-röl"

    Finnish - "Making off-pätkät on tarpeellisia varsinkin muille videoita tekeville"

    Maltese - "ma nafx imma waqt li kont qed nara il-making off u rajt lil kristina..."

    Breton - "Aze e vo kavet ganeoc'h pep tra diwar benn pennoberenn Diwan, interview ar c'hoarierien, ur making off, an arvestoù c'hwitet gant hag all hag all"

    I'm indebted to LanguageHat for finding these examples.

    November 21, 2007