and at the same time gathers the news about the situation the scenes are filmed the imaging apparatus 14 composed of a video camera such as camcorder registered trade mark is an apparatus used for gathering the news of a broadcast news program and for filming the video contents of a sport game and a movie this imaging apparatus 14 is connected to the network 12 and obtains configuration table metadata for example from the planning terminal apparatus 11 via the network 12 the imaging apparatus 14 displays thus obtained configuration table metadata on a predetermined display unit so that a filming staff such as a cameraman is able to confirm the contents to be filmed the imaging apparatus 14 is operated by the filming staff to film the scenes constituting a video program based on the production instruction information included in the obtained configuration table metadata the imaging apparatus 14 records the image data and the audio data obtained through filming onto a recording medium such as the optical disc 17 the imaging apparatus 14 can record not only original image data that is for example image data obtained through imaging but also low resolution image data hereinafter called low resolution data onto the optical disc 17 the original image data has large data amount but is high quality image data used for the finished product of a video program on the other hand the low resolution data generated by reducing the number of pixels of each frame of the original image data is the image data corresponding to the image of a frame having a smaller number of pixels in addition the low resolution data may also be encoded for example in the mpeg4 format this low resolution data though it is lower in image.