All the methods and techniques used to capture moving pictures and images on electronic media, solid storage platforms, videotapes or streaming are referred to as videography. Whether we are talking about amateur or professional videography, the concept applies to and includes the processes necessary to electronic production and post production. Videography somehow equals with cinematography; the element that differentiates between the two is that in videography the recoding media is electronic while in cinematography a film stock is used. The term is a combination of the Latin word ‘video’, which means ‘I see’ or ‘I apprehend’ and the Greek suffix ‘graphy’, which means ‘to write’. Anyway the advent of digital imaging towards the end of the 20th century has minimized the difference between videography and cinematography.
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Both the amateur and professional videography market have grown to include distribution together with production. Market segmentation was the result, based on the applicationand corporate video, event video or broadcast video are just a few segment examples. Plus the advent of the Internet has contributed to this expansion of videography beyond the processes of shooting videos with a regular camera. Thus, when talking about professional videography, we can distinguish between digital animation, web streaming, gaming, still slide-shows, video blogging, remote sensing, medical imaging, spatial imaging, and, in general, production of bitmap and vector-based assets. With the progresses in the world of computers and the world wide web on the one hand and that of videography technology on the other, videographers can now create their assets on the computer without involving image devices at all. Software-driven solutions are what they need to use in the process.
Professional videography requires more than the simple camera operation, since visual design and production are equally part of the job. Professional videography in particular, also deals with compiling artists’ video releases or music videos, like in filmography and discography.
In professional videography the specialist spends many hours documenting on the event s/he is going to put on video. After that, the cutting of some scenes and the application of the music background that create the smoothing flowing video story take some more hours of work. Professional videographyis actually the art of capturing certain moments in time. The process requires vision and inspiration along with hard work and commitment. Besides the inspiration part, let us not minimize the importance of the gear quality that is responsible for the video features directly. Professional videography may thus start like any other profession with film school graduation or like a hobby by filming family and friends’ events.