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发表于 2006-7-23 23:20:04
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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: 555 TIME: 0:44:33 DATE: 2006-7-23
The author asserts that the video camera has an advantage of recording contemporary life accurately, but does it means that it will become a more important form of documentation instead of written records? In my point of view, video camera does has its conspicuous superiority such as accuracy and convincingness, however, written records, as the traditional form of documentation, remain play a vital role in people's life, which cannot be instead of.
Admittedly, video camera can record people's life more accurately and convincingly, especially for recording some beautiful scenes. When you boat in the West Lake, when you climb the Great Wall, when you visit the Liberty Statue ,what you want first must be picturing, which may remind you these happy experience after a few years. And especially for people who know few words, which is usual in the countryside of China, photographs are almost the only thing which can help them remind their good old days. All these, unquestionably, depend on the accurate and convincing record of video camera.
However, in contrast with its advantages, the shortcomings of video camera are so prominent that we cannot ignore them. Firstly, video camera, which costs thousands of yuan averagely, is not able to be afforded by every people or family, particularly in China where most people are not too rich. Secondly, the only thing video camera can record is what we can see such as a beautiful picture, a charming girl, people's pose or expression, but for what people is thinking, or what they are talking about, it seems impossible for video camera to record it. Thirdly, when you want to make a contract with other people or company, you cannot record it just by video camera.
So, in the condition mentioned above, we may have missed the superiority of written records. For one thing, it is popular from the time we can written to now, so it can be accepted easily and also can be afforded by every people. For another, when we solve some problems of statistics, or when we try to record our feelings, written records may manifest their superiority which cannot be instead of. For example, we want to record how many trees in a wood, if we use video camera, we must record it from different angles, and even though, we may can not complete this assignment, but if we record it by writing, we may just write a simple number. Also, if you want to apply for a good university, your application also should be a written record rather than a photograph by the most accurate and convincing video camera.
Of course, we cannot avoid the shortcomings of written records, but we can complement them by other methods. For example, paper may be destroyed easily, but we can record some important documents in a computer. And the written record may hard to be read by people in other country, but we can solve this problem by translating. Also, the strong recollection of our brains can make up for the shortcoming of written records in recording extremely complex ideas or feelings.
All in all, based on the analysis made above, we may come to a conclusion that written records are remain the essential form of documentation in people's life, and video camera can be selected as a complement, which must make the records more perfect. |
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