To keep up with video and technology I subscribe to a whole lot of feeds and services... and sometimes it's an article that intrigues that leads me to a blog or other website that features yet another articles on a different site.
Today I came across a blog post that totally fit into a conversation we had on the Casablanca Coffee Klatsch recently. We were discussing the names we used to call or describe what we do to clients or to friends, family and community.
And for a LONG time I have been using the term videographer.
It is an accepted word in Webster's dictionary and basically means one who records images with a video camera. Now that fits a good part of what I do and what a lot of colleagues do - but really, it's just one part.
As folks who create videos whether for passion, for fun and/or for profit - we have to take that video recording and fashion it into a completed video presentation. That involves editing, titling, audio, DVD authoring, etc.
So the term videographer really is only a fraction of what we do, or who we are. Back to what I started with today -- here is a post by a colleague I have read his stuff before... Ron Dawson of Dare Dreamer Magazine. His article that got me started today: Are the Myriad of Names in Filmmaking Helping or Hurting the Industry?
If you're at all intrigued by this conversation you'll enjoy his thoughts as well. And I should point out that one of the folks who left a comment on Ron's blog shared what is the most important thing... if you're doing this for profit, the most important consideration is by what name or title is your prospective clients looking for you?
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