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发表于 2007-1-31 12:03:17
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Issue7
With the advent of video camera, great changes have taken placed in means of documentation and the use of video camera is being attached great importance for its accurate and convincing records, however, the traditional means of records--written records should never be ignored. The best way of documentation, from a practical point of view, is the flexible combination of these two means depending on the true situation.
To begin with, video camera provides us with lifelike, explicit and convincing records, which are beyond the capacities of written records. A case in point involves the wide use of video camera for monitoring. To guarantee the safety of the people's lives as well as the property, video camera has recently gained its popularity as an instantaneous, accurate and objective means. Traffic monitoring, for instance, has adopted video camera to record the traffic situation, which can, on the one hand, give us the feedback of street situation such as traffic jams, car accidents, and so forth. On the other hand, such a monitoring camera can record those cars which violate the traffic rules, and thus providing potent proofs against the drivers. It goes without saying that written records are unlikely to perform their functions as mentioned in the above situations. Obviously, with regard to this aspect, traditional written records have to give way to video cameras.
In the second place, traditional ways of records--written records bears several merits when it comes to abstract documentation. For supporting examples one need look no further than Mark Twain, a great American writer, whose works mainly focus on the social problems. Can you imagine the situation where Twain took a video camera and recorded what was inside his mind? I am afraid not, and such a situation would never be true. In this sense, written record is the top choice, since humans can use words to reflect our attitudes and views towards the society and other issues. In other words, written records are more adaptive to document more abstract mind activities, whereas, video camera, though providing more vivid description, is certain to fail in terms of recording something more abstract and subjective, such as one's perspectives on an issue, revulsion on a matter or on somebody, and so on.
Apparently, the relationship between traditional ways and modern ways of records is far from being contradictive, but mutually dependent and intertwined. For instance, as we know, most archives in the United Nations are kept in written forms rather than video records, because written records are considered more readily reserved, in the meantime, some events are recorded and kept as video files, which serve as the complement to written records, such events include important meetings needing to be testified and guaranteed that the meetings are adhering to normal and defined procedures. Hence, the use of these two means can best achieve the effects.
In sum, from what is discussed above, we may finally draw the conclusion that whether video camera or written records is more important than the other should not be reached with haste. The choice and the application of these two means should be drawn on a case-by-case analysis. |
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