amplification and compression

Amplification is basically taking an idea and expanding on it, which seems to me to make something make more clearer. Compression is taking an idea or something and making it more to the point/concise. Amplification seems to be more drawn out while compression is more brief. I think that our project shows more compression than amplification. We have taken campus fest and compressed it down to the main points to analyze it as a discourse community instead of doing this long research process on it.