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qyr1987UID: 2754639

ISSUE7 - "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."


Admittedly, video camera, which is accurate and convincing in recording, plays a more and more important role in documentation, but is it a even more crucial form of documentation than written? I beg the differ. The video camera build up a sketch with visual material, while the words written filled the sketch with flesh and blood, with both can we make a whole body of the document.

The assertion made by the author should be argued in that the use of the video camera is not so widely spread as papers and pens did. Not only unavailable to everyone for their high price, but also the convenience not as good as pens and paper to bring restrict the spread of the video cameras, let alone let these devices step into ordinary families and become the main form of documentation in the place of the traditional pens and paper. What's more, for those remote or poor areas where electricity, energy source of those electronic devices, is not available, the written records remains the second to none form of documentation and will not be replaced in the near future unless living conditions greatly improved so that people could have time to record their lives as well as electricity widely utilized.

However, even when video cameras spread widely enough, that does not mean there is no need for written records. Video cameras made capturing some historical moments possible, such as the moment when J.F.K gave his first president speech, King, the famous civil rights fighter, gave his speech" I have a dream" and even Chairman Mao declared the foundation the people's republic of china. To some extent, those are all millstones for a new era and should be memorized by descendants. However, only the visual material itself as a means only serves to record the scene can not express the feelings and thoughts, which always expressed in the written records for the purpose of letting the reader know the subjective opinions of the writer, carried by the record taker. Thus, both forms of documentation should be used.

Not only for recording the historical moments, but also for recording everyday life experience that both video camera and pen and paper should be used. Take the increasingly popular Growth Log for a baby, parents photograph what the baby is doing as well as write a dairy like blog for their immediate thoughts so that when the baby grow up he/she could be able to review the detail of his/her growth and how the parents feel about every event in it.

Without video camera, some record may not be that accurate or objective. Without written records, there will not be room for feelings of the record taker. With both the forms of documentation can we reach the point where documents are both with accuracy to describe the world and the how we feel about the world.

qyr1987UID: 2754639

拜托大家给点建议吧 实在不知道怎么写了 写得自己都觉得好差啊