Week 3
Multimodality, a topic I am much more comfortable with! Especially compared to last week. This is probably because I am a music student and love aural modes and its corresponding mediums. It's not really the same thing though is it?
I have always been aware of the 5 modes, however, never known much about most of them, at least in-depth. I know more about aural, linguist and visual than spatial and gestural and I'm looking forward to learning more.
What is multimodality, you ask? Well according to the Victorian Department of Education and Training [DET] (2019), multimodality is when meaning, messages or any form of communication is conveyed through a combination of more than one mode. This is where those 5 modes come in.
Then we move onto mediums. What is a medium? The medium is basically the channel in which the communication is conveyed. For example: if one were to choose to communication through a visual mode, their medium could be a photograph/image.
Finally, remediation. This was, initially, the biggest aspect of this unit that confused me, as I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I've come to find that a remediation, in simple terms, is recapturing one medium as another. As in, recapturing words to imagines or images to sounds etc. Our first remediation was to take our short written narrative and recapture it in images. It seems pretty straight forward, and it was. Unless I've done it completely wrong. Either way using a free image site, I began looking for images that corresponded with my narrative and placed them in the order of events.
I believe, this first remediation was made to be straight forward and somewhat simple, however, as we progress they may become more difficult. After all I have never heard of Twine, nor am I too confident with soundscapes. I look forward to giving them both a go. After all you'll never learn anything if you don't try.
References:
Department of Education and Training. (2019). Overview of Multimodal Literacy. https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/multimodal/Pages/multimodaloverview.aspx#link57
I have always been aware of the 5 modes, however, never known much about most of them, at least in-depth. I know more about aural, linguist and visual than spatial and gestural and I'm looking forward to learning more.
(Kristen Arola, Jennifer Shepherd, and Cheryl Ball, Writer/Designer, 4)
Then we move onto mediums. What is a medium? The medium is basically the channel in which the communication is conveyed. For example: if one were to choose to communication through a visual mode, their medium could be a photograph/image.
Finally, remediation. This was, initially, the biggest aspect of this unit that confused me, as I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I've come to find that a remediation, in simple terms, is recapturing one medium as another. As in, recapturing words to imagines or images to sounds etc. Our first remediation was to take our short written narrative and recapture it in images. It seems pretty straight forward, and it was. Unless I've done it completely wrong. Either way using a free image site, I began looking for images that corresponded with my narrative and placed them in the order of events.
(Photo by Leonardo Yip on Unsplash)
References:
Department of Education and Training. (2019). Overview of Multimodal Literacy. https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/multimodal/Pages/multimodaloverview.aspx#link57
I like the opening where you give an example about what you know already and then you talk about what you don't know i.e.: spatial and gestural. To me at least, this shows that you know where your strengths are; and what it is you might light to explore.
ReplyDeleteI haven't used Twine either but I think that by having a grounding in other topics such the modes, hypertext and other elements that we will cover in this course, by the time we get around to using Twine it will fit in nicely.
Darren