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TOPIC: 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."
WORDS: 531 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2010-2-19 19:56:56
限时成功的一篇~!因为这个题目比较好写吧……但写得时候仍然是手忙脚乱。要继续练习啊。
With the highly speeded pace of life and the unparalleled information explosion today, people are edging to document accurately and convincingly not only the significant event but also the exciting episode in life. Both the video camera, which is rendered by the booming shooting technology, and the written records, the tradition yet unfailing method of documentation, lend us convient and useful way.
Undeniably, videos enjoy some unique conveniences that are unmatched by any form of written records. When confronting to record the instant scene, such as news events and sports competition, cameras render us an accurate and convincing method which is free from not only the subjective influence but also the limit in scope of the recorder. However skillful or objective, hardly can a reporter write down with his pen the glaring atmosphere and the thunderous cheers during a football match, nor can he document thoroughly an political turmoil, writing down all the desperate and raging faces and ardent demonstrations, which can be viewed vividly in an short video record. Frequently, such striking emotions and comprehensive picture defy the description of words, and only the shoot of camera is able to capture the scene, keeping its original empathy and details.
Meanwhile, paper documentation dwarfs camera shooting in the specific and extremely in-depth description of both daily and inner world of human life. Though there might be supervision cameras in public places such as banks and shopping malls, it is impossible for them to witness every detail of one's life. We seek to record them in the form of paper documentation: through the diary, the letter for families and friends, the bank bill, the agenda list, and so forth. Also, when trying to explore the inner world of people, we turn more to the autobiography or biography than to documentary video: the former unveils the deepest thoughts, the spiritual condition, the specifics that seemingly obscure yet significant, while the latter can present only limited fraction of the ostensible life or shallow description of the inner at best. Written records, which has been pervasive in every end of the world, exert perhaps invisible yet innegligible influence for all.
When considering the circulation sphere and spread methods, publications and videos possess different advantages. Camera programs, relies on certain media to transmit and exhibit, are gaining their share with the rapidly development of communication technology, especially on the internet. Various video sites, Youtube included, win dramatical popularity among people, accelerating and facilitating the circulation and preservation of video records. Meanwhile, paper records, with their natural merit that can be accessible without any auxilary machine or equipment except reading ability, pemeat our daily life. Be it when waiting a train or an appointment, for example, people prefer to fetch a newpaper or magazine to kill the time. While the cassette or discs, which depend heavily on specific machines, are fading away with the disapearance of tape recorder and disc players, books, newpapers and other paper publications will never lose their ground as long as people can read and write.
With different characteristics, videos and written records share the role of recording the world. It is the combination of the two that gives us a comprehensive picture. |
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