Issue7=美丽G程小组=小组第一次作业 by Melody

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The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records.

With the video camera striking a pose on the stage, using a vivid and dramatic way to record contemporary life is not fantasy anymore. Because of its superiority of fast recording both of the motion pictures and sound simultaneously, video camera gives us expression to the accuracy and reality. it is able to record things on the air, working as an information media to transfer precise messages and reveal them by means of televisions and the internet to people who did not be on the spot then. Thus we are capable of acquainting ourselves with the outside world simply by sitting in front of TV or clicking the mouse. Due to the uniqueness of lively and precisely recording ability, it is prevalent in industries such as the military, national defense, medicine,
jurisprudence etc. Let’s take a criminal case as an example: If there had got through a robbery in a bank, the digital video recorder system would make good sense to help the police to break it as strong evidence as through the recording we could have the most accurate time and the procedure of the crime and maybe we could even catch some characteristics of the robber. Undoubtedly, its rapidity, accuracy and convincingness made it one of the most basilic recording methods in our daily life.

However, it can not be simply concluded as the author cites above that the video camera is a more important form of documentation than the written ones for the reason that its work is more accurate and convincing. In order to disconfirm the opinion, I suppose that the inference of the author is right, we could audaciously do the back ratiocination that if the video camera was less important in recording things than the written one, the video camera documentation was not accurate and convincing well then. Nevertheless, few of us would agree with that. Written records are incapable of showing us the reality as the video records do as it more or less contains subjective view of the recorder. Unlike the writing way, by recording the motion pictures and sounds, video camera works from an objective angle, it offers us the most active and realistic scene. This contradicts to the conclusion we have supposed above and meanwhile proves that the author’s deduction means nothing at all.

As we all know, writing, as an ancient way of recording things, is carried down from generation to generation. It is the simplest and most original way of recording things. Through millions of year, the reason why it is still popular in this world filled with modern documental methods is that it use language, the best way to express feelings to record things. It does the documentation both external and intimate, which is upon the video camera’s power. The abundant and subtle feelings contained underneath of the words would never be interpreted thoroughly by videotape as there is no one’s performance would touch our heart as deeply as the words do. Thus we get the conclusion that none of the performance in the videotape could be mentioned in the same breath with writing records.

All in all, stuffs have both positive and negative halves, we could not simply judge that one is better than the other. Writing records assist us to keep our thoughts and feelings fresh, while Video recordings, on the other hand, do a good help to do the documentation lively and accuracy. They come out even as both of them play irreplaceable roles in our lives.