Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Subject "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."
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Class: Jueves 7:00 am
Time allotted: 50 minutes
I strongly disagree with the former statement because a video camera cannot
truthfully relate everything that is happening at a certain moment, as there is far more
to document in life than what we see and hear. A video camera can distort the reality
by turning it into something entirely different from what originally happened, thus
creating a situation that completely alienates and misleads the viewer. In contrast, a
written record can describe contemporary events in a structured and well defined
temporal sequence, providing specific details that can help the reader to acquire a
precise and realistic image of a defined event. A video can act as a supplemental
evidence for a certain experience but it cannot be considered as a better instrument
towards the exact documentation of human life than the written word.
A video camera can distort the reality turning it into something entirely different from what was originally
happening, thus creating a situation that is completely alienated from the actual event that was being
taped.
In order to fully understand contemporary reality adequately,
Our life has gone through great changes since the video camera came into being, which provides a
totally new and different way of recording life to the traditional written methods.
Compared with written records, video documentation is much less influenced by the one who took
record and the one who interprete it.
Another conspicuous advantage of video records is its integrity.
Yet it’s rash to say that video camera has already won over traditional written documents and become
the new domination of documentation field since video record is limited in several aspects.
We cannot say whether video camera or the written document is more important than the other in that
each one has its irreplaceable merits and values. Video camera offers the accurate and convincing
method of recording which can revive life in before, while traditional written document can provide a
more detailed and rational record in lower cost.
The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trend of its youth
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