Videography

Videography are captured on electronic media (such as videotape, direct-to-disk recording, or solid-state storage), and even on streaming media, which is referred to as videography. Video production and post-production processes are included in this category. After a while, it was regarded to be the video counterpart of cinematography (moving pictures recorded on film stock), but the introduction of digital video recording in later decades eroded the difference between the two, since the intermittent mechanism in both approaches became identical. Any video work nowadays may be referred to as videography, while commercial motion picture production would be referred to as cinematography. In the realm of videography and/or video production, a videographer is someone who works in the field of filmmaking. Videographers that work in electronic news gathering (ENG) of local news stories are primarily reliant on live television broadcasts in order to transmit news.

As personal computers and the Internet became more widely available in the 1980s, videography expanded to include a wide range of activities other than simply shooting video with a camera. These activities included digital animation (such as Flash), gaming, web streaming, video blogging, still slideshows, remote sensing, spatial imaging, medical imaging, security camera imaging, and in general the production of the vast majority of bitmap and vector based assets. Using software-driven solutions, videographers will be able to create their assets completely on a computer, without ever using an image gear, as the industry evolves. Furthermore, the proliferation of mobile phones, surveillance video, and action cameras, all of which are expanding at an unprecedented pace throughout the world, is changing the whole idea of sociability and privacy itself.

A videographer may be the person in charge of the visual design of a production as well as the person who operates the camera (the latter being the equivalent of a cinematographer).