Videography
Videography is a term that relates to the process of making movies or recording moving images. The devices used for storage are 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. Event video, corporate video or broadcast video are just a few examples of the market segments we refer to, although the list is much longer than that.
Besides image shooting and recording, 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. This means that computer programs are now designed to create animation. 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.
Last but no least, videography also designates an artist’s music and video collection as compared to filmography, which means the collection of all the movies made by an actor, or discography, which refers to all the discs released on the market by a singer or a band.
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