A better terminology for the word videotaping?

Jerry K wrote on 8/12/2012, 10:24 AM

A better terminology for the word videotaping?

The other night ABC news had a story on a bus crash and how it was caught on tape, that's what the lower third read, we all know dash cams record on a card just like 95% of all camcorders made today record on a
card , flash drive or H/D.

My local news had a story the other day that had a lower third that said caught on camera. I like that better then caught on tape.

I'm a member of the NJ videographer association group. We have high end videographers coming in from all over the country showing off their technics and how they create their finished product. Most all of these companies will not use the word video anymore instead use the word film.

I do not to use the word video anymore and I do not like the word film.

My question is being most of us are now shooting and editing with out video tape how are you handling this terminology change with clients, websites and brochures?

Jerry K

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Dan Sherman wrote on 8/16/2012, 10:37 AM

I hear the term filmmaker used routinely by people who shoot their "films" on various digital, non film media.
These are screened at "film" festivals, and may in fact be transferred to film to qualify.
A documentarian is someone who shoots documentary films, mostly on non film media these days.
Videographer is the term most connected with corporate/promotional videos, though I have yet to find it in spell check.
Then there's the video guy, the person who makes his/her living on the bottom rung of the video/ film hierarchical ladder. The event shooter who does weddings, the speech at the Rotary Club, kids birthday parties and figure skating and ballet.
Is "shoot" too violent a term, as an alternative to videoing (which I don't think is a word.)
Shoot a film, shoot a documentary, shoot an instructional video, shoot a wedding.
A more passive verb may be "film" as it isn't referring to the media specifically but to the action of filming which I believe generically today can mean capturing images to a medium, digital or otherwise by use of a camera.
I like filming, all in favour,....opposed?