[AWA] issue 241

241"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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Video camera provides accurate and convincing record of contemporary life without doubt,but it has not become more important than written records as a form of documentation. We can hardly choose one that is more important from video camera and written records.The situations and the utilities of the documentation decide which one of the two is more important.

Video camera is used in a wide area for it records the event vividly and accurately.People holding a event would wish to record all the things happening at the moment to capture the joyfulness and historical effect of the occation. Therefore, from a small birthday party to a ceremony, we see people recording the occations witha video camera. People joining a wonderful event depend on the video to memorize thehappiness of the moment. In addition, those who couldn't be in the events, tryto engage in the event through the video. Due to the whole record of the contemporaryevent.

Yet, written records couldn't be replaced for they are still beneficial. In such a rush society, we are not able to watch that much video documentation a day. In business market, the most important of all is time. The more time you save, the more you gain. Without seeing long video documentation, the boss want to see brief and structured concept of a proposal. He would glance at the main points on the written records. It would be too much trouble for the boss to watch those long video documentation and gain know idea about them.

At the same time, people sometimes want to know the detail of the information.Although we could watch news on television, newspaper still exists for content of the news on TV would have to be narrowed down to list various news in various fields. By reading newspaper we could choose the news we are interested in and read it detailly.

After all, it depends on our requirements to choose from video and written documentations.Each of them have their advantages and we could benefit from both. Video documentationhelps reflect every seconds of an event, and written documentation helps offer some information both organized and written detailly.


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