The making and recording of films and digital photos is generally referred to as videography. The devices used for storage are pretty varied beginning with hard disks, memory sticks or flashes, and several others. There is also a difference between cinematography and videography, even if they basically refer to pretty much the same process, in that, in the case of the latter, images are recorded directly on electronic media rather than on film as is done in the case of the former. As far as the origin of the word is concerned, Latin has again had much to contribute to the invention of the term as video in this old language means I see whereas graphy refers to writing.

Back in the old days, people could not speak about videography because technology was not so advanced in order to require a new term. Cinematography was the term that appealed to common usage. But with the coming of the 21st  century and the boom in technological development, the need for a new word arose in order to make a difference between the two processes that involved different stocking possibilities. 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.

In addition to image shooting and recording, videography has come to include even newer types of movies and here we can talk about animation of various types, digital animation, slide-shows, video blogging, video games, web streaming, and the like. This ever increasing and spreading process, that has gained such prominence in modern times often require computer processing and editing. 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.

Finally, videography also designates an artist’s music and video collection as compared to filmography, which means 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.