The making and recording of films and digital photos is generally referred to as videography. The stocking devices that are used in videography could be pretty varied from flashes or memory sticks to external hard disks. Even if both cinematography and videography pretty much refer to the same thing, cinematography uses a material support to record on, while videography relies directly on electronic media. As for the linguistic origin of the concept, the term can be divided in two separate words: video which in the old language translates as I see, and graphy that means writing or something written.
Videography is a word that was coined in our modern times, because even a few years ago, the process was still novelty. They used the word cinematography instead of the one under discussion here. Yet, with the technological progress of the last decade, the necessity to differentiate between concepts led to the appearance of this new term. Moreover, the age of the Internet brought about even more of the development of videography in itself as now the market has extended and has further become segmented taking into account the application that videography is concerned more with. The segments of this market could be event video, broadcast video, corporate video and the list could continue.
In addition to shooting images, videography has come to include even newer types of movies and here we can talk about digital animation, streaming, video blogging, video games, slide shows and more. This rapidly growing media, that has gained so much ground during these modern times, may involve only work on the computer without even using devices that capture images. Animation therefore relies on computer programs for extensive productions. Mobile phones also use videography which clearly means that videography is within the use of anyone, although we definitely don’t refer to this concept when thinking about the pictures and videos we take with the phone camera.
Finally, videography refers to the collection of music videos or video films of an artist as compared to filmography, which points to the collection of all the movies in which an actor has performed, or discography, which refers to all the discs released on the market by a singer or a band.