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Professional Videography

By guest | June 29, 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 it is amateur or professional videography, the term videography refers to and includes the methods of electronic production and post production. Videography somehow equals with cinematography; the difference between the two lies in that images are recorded on electronic media in videography, whereas film stock is used for this in cinematography. The word was coined from the Latin ‘video’ which means ‘I see’ and the Greek ‘graphy’ which translate ‘write’ or ‘writing’. With the growth of digital cameras at the beginning of the 21st century, the distinction between cinematography and professional videography was no longer that apparent.

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Both the amateur and professional videography market have developed to the extent of covering both production and distribution at present. Market segmentation was the result, 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 web streaming, digital animation, slide shows, gaming, remote sensing, video blogging, vector and bitmap based assets production, spatial imaging and so on. With the conquests in the fields of computers and the world wide web on the one hand and that of videography technology on the other, videographers presently rely on all sorts of computer programs to work on pictures and videos. Software-driven solutions are what they need to use in the process.

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Not only in professional videography does the videographer operate the camera but he/she can also be in charge of the visual design of the production. Professional videography in particular, can thus compile music videos or just video releases, like in filmography and discography.

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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. Besides hard work and commitment, an ounce of talent and vision are also necessary to do a good job. Technical knowledge as well as high tech equipment are also necessary to produce the best quality video. Professional videography may thus start like any other profession with film school graduation or like a hobby by filming family and friends’ events.

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