Videographer

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An individual who specializes in capturing video footage for entertainment, educational, or promotional uses is often engaged in editing and producing visual stories
2. A specialist in recording and producing video content for diverse applications, ranging from events to promotions and education
3. A person skilled in shooting and capturing moving images for various purposes

Etymology: "Videographer" is a plain compound: "video-" joined to the suffix "-grapher," which comes from Greek "graphein," meaning "to write" or "to record." The suffix turns up in older words such as "photographer," where it meant someone who writes with light, and "video" is the Latin for "I see." Put together, the word names someone who records with the eye of a camera. The Oxford English Dictionary records the word in its entry, and the dictionary's online edition was launched in 2000, which gives a rough sense of how recently the term was formalised. The pattern follows "photographer," which was coined about two centuries earlier, so "videographer" is essentially a later, electronic-age sibling of that older word.

Synonyms: cameraman, filmmaker, cinematographer