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Videography vs Photography for Senior Year

So you can’t afford a photographer AND a videographer for your senior year memories? Maybe you don’t know which one to choose because you don’t know the specific difference between the two? There are many positive factors to each photography and videography. The table below represents the differences between Videography and Photography to help narrow down your decision.

Photography

Videography

Director:

  • “Put this arm here, scoot this way”

  • Getting senior pictures done can be stressful

  • A bulk of your senior year can be missed

Documentor:

  • Hands off approach 99% are candid videos

  • “Find action in the stationary”

  • Breaking poses with smiles and laughter

  • “Document their journey as opposed to directing their destination”

Frames:

  • Can be displayed throughout home

  • Alumni can look at the pictures

Experience:

  • Can hear the words said at toasts for senior dinner

  • Can bring people to tears in the best way

  • A way to relive your senior year

  • Can capture more detail

Still:

  • Shoot still images

  • Have to be aware to shoot at any time

Motion:

  • Shoot motion images

  • Video is more intense of shots than photography

  • Can have up to 4 hours of raw footage with 75% being unusable at first

Instant:

  • When editing photos you get immediate results

  • Can be adjusted via photoshop if there is a dark spot

  • Limited process

Patience:

  • Have to cut video at the right time, add a transition and music

  • Patience is key

  • Have to wait for clips to “render” when you first put filters/effects on the videos

Either one of these options is an investment but is totally worth every penny. Photos are irreplaceable for your senior year, especially if you want to hang up your senior memories on walls. Videography is more of an option of capturing the emotions of your special year with a video that bunches all the emotions in one.

Personally, I would have both for my senior year. Imagine having a video that collects all the best parts of senior year into one video. It would be like having a “long vine” for your senior year. Student section cheers, sporting event clips, hallway smiles, and the capture of all the best memories. Senior pictures is also a good way to capture your senior year memories. You can hang these pictures on walls and share them with others, they just won’t be as animated and “alive” as a senior video would be. Whether you end up choosing a photographer or a videographer to capture your senior year, it will be memorable either way. Highschool is supposed to be the best years of your life, so make the most of it and smile as much as you can, because before you know it, it’ll be gone.

Works Cited

“Difference Between Photography & Videography from Use Your Photography Skills to Master

Videography with Jessica Dimmock.” CreativeLive, www.creativelive.com/class/use-your-photography-skills-to-master-videography-jessica-dimmock/lessons/difference-between-photography-videography.

Ehlers, Maris. “What Exactly Are Senior Portraits, and Why Are They Such a Big Deal?” St.

Michael, MN Patch, Patch, 25 July 2012,

patch.com/minnesota/stmichael/bp--what-exactly-are-senior-portraits-and-why-are-thec90fc21756.

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