“The mood is in the shot”: the challenge of moving-image texts to multimodality
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Jennifer Rowsell is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University's Faculty of Education. Her research interests include expanding definitions of literacy education through the fields of multimodality and New Literacy Studies. Her most recent book isWorking with Multimodality: Learning in a Digital Age (2013, Routledge).
Abstract
This article reports a longitudinal study of new media and digital technologies producers (Rowsell 2013) looking at their multimodal logic and practices to challenge notions of text and multimodality. Focusing on filmmakers, I build on previous research (Sheridan and Rowsell 2010) to extend traditional notions of print-based texts to more contemporary ways of making meaning with moving-image texts. Working within a multimodal framework (Kress 1997, 2010), I present the logic and practices of two producers. One filmmaker produces documentaries about wide-ranging topics from cricket to Jim Carrey to sex scandals and religion. The other producer creates 3-D animated “texts” for film and television. Both are assiduous about their process and product, both highly competent at editing filmic texts, both intimately acquainted with the art and logic of multimodality. Their production stories and expertise inform the article to challenge perceptions of what modes can do and what they can evoke. Whether it is done through expressions, movements, images, sounds, filmmakers exploit the affordances of modes to emotionalize moving-image texts.
About the author
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies at Brock University's Faculty of Education. Her research interests include expanding definitions of literacy education through the fields of multimodality and New Literacy Studies. Her most recent book is Working with Multimodality: Learning in a Digital Age (2013, Routledge).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: multimodality, meaning making, and the issue of “text”
- “Why did dinosaurs evolve from water?”: (in)coherent relatedness in YouTube video interaction
- Migrating literacies: multimodal texts and digitally enabled text making
- “You should've seen Luke!” or the multimodal encoding/decoding of the language of postmodern ‘webridized’ TV series
- “The mood is in the shot”: the challenge of moving-image texts to multimodality
- Through the looking glass: a social semiotic and linguistic perspective on the study of video chats
- Semiotic technology and practice: a multimodal social semiotic approach to PowerPoint
