Issue7【0906G 文以载道三月四月作文小组】1.27作业 by noheven

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7."The video cameraprovides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that ithas become a more important form of documentation than written records."

摄像机可以精确地拍摄当代人类生活，它已经超过笔纸记录而成为更为重要的记录手段。

1.
随着科技的发展，摄像机被越来越多地用于记录现实生活和事件，相比于纸笔记录，它有着直观清晰的优势。并且更易于传播。
Eg
新闻节目； 对战争的报道（直观清晰迅速）；登月Apollo lunar landing
2.
摄像机的优势同时也是它的劣势---对抽象的思想，条文和情感，它太过直接具体。而此时纸笔记录更加适合。
Eg 对战争的报道（血腥？）Iraq War法律条文，书籍。
3.
摄像机的携带，制作与保存，都不及纸笔简单方便。同时，还有数据丢失的危险。
4.
因此，摄像机不可能完全取代纸笔记录；但它可以和传统方式互为补充。


Let’s talk about documentation. A documentmay manifest symbolic, diagrammatic or sensory-representational information. Todocument is to produce a document artifact by collecting and representinginformation. As the development of technology, digital artifacts are used todocument more and more often, such as radio. Will it become a more importantform of documentation than written records, for the reason that the video camera provides such anaccurate and convincing record of contemporary life, as the speaker says? Givento the various contents of documentation, though the accuracy and vivid imageof video camera, it can not take the place of written records, they will parallelexits as a helper to each other for documenting.

In the respect of real life affairs and events, the videorecords is very clear and intuitionistic; one can easily understand it just bywatching the moving image and hearing the sound – even a person is not able toread could get its meaning. For instance, the Apollo Lunar Landing, onehigh-tech event which was broadcast to the whole earth at the same time as ithappened, was even touched by common person. Without the video camera, howcould we see the activities of human on the land of Luna– It is just beyond the common people’s imagination. And of course, the videorecorded the processes for further studying, with other written data. Moreover,even passers-by could catch the new from a television in a grocer or in a bus. Inthis level, it is so universal that it could be broadcast everywhere. Just havea look at the popular news program and compare them to the traditional newspapers, one will find that messes tend to prefer the former for its simplicityand vivid image; in addition, you could watch television while sporting but youcan not reading while sporting, isn’t it?

In the respect of other contents of documentation, such asabstract ideas, laws, instructions, and some internal emotions, the merits of videoin the first aspect turn to the foibles. Video can rebuild or even recreate thereal world, but it is not good at broadcast the abstract meanings, especiallythe progress of how to get to it. So scientists and scholars still need topublish their papers, while commentators will need to write their commentsafter the 9 o’clock news.
On the other hand, as anold saying, “there are one hundred Hamlets in one hundred reads’ eyes.” The written words give readersmore space for imagination, then it may lead to the another creative workswhile this situation merely happens by watching video in which way one just passivelyaccepts the moving image.

Last but not least, video camera is less convenience that pensand paper for being taken with, producing and saving.
And the fast development of digital technology
calls for frequency updating the data form which maylead to the data losing. Looking back to the example of the Apollo LunarLanding, as the losing of original tapes of the video (it said that it lost inseveral times of copying for update the data form ), the authenticity of it isbeing questioned.

In a sum, video cameras and written records are not theopposite forms for documentation; in fact, they are parallel different wayswhich fit for different contents and different aims of documents. They couldplay a complementarily part to each other.

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