Professional Videography

4 June 2009

Videography is the process of capturing moving pictures/images on electronic media such as streaming media, videotape, hard disk, or solid state storage. Whether we are talking about amateur or professional videography, the term videography refers to and includes the processes necessary to electronic production and post production. Videography is the equivalent of 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 developed to the extent of covering both production and distribution at present. As a resul, market segmentation has occurred, based on the application: broadcast video, event video, corporate video and others. The development of the Internet has created a global environment in which videography covers many more fields than just shooting video with a camera. Thus, when depicting professional videography there are several categories to identify with distinctions 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. All they can use in the process includes software-driven solutions.

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Professional videography requires more than the simple camera operation, since visual design and production are equally part of the job. Professional videography in particular, can thus compile music videos or just video releases, like in discography or filmography.

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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 videographycan thus be defined as 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. In order to become videographers some people attend film schools whereas others start on this career after regularly videotaping events for family and friends.

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