Reflection+5

Creating Multimodal Texts

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Introduction This short movie was made using Microsoft Moviemaker. I tried several applications listed on Alan Levine's site, Storytools, but came back to Moviemaker when time proved short. I hadn't used the software before and basically just had a play with it before settling to working on a storyboard. Then I became frustrated when I didn't know how to modify a slide without going back and starting over. I accidentally learnt how to modify the length and positoniing of the sound effects when the project was nearly done!

I was pleased with what I came up with after about 3 hours. The most frustrating thing was searching for images that fitted with the narrative I had in mind. I wanted much more control of the images than I had to be satisfied with in the end but I chose images that helped to convey mood, particularly in the start of the sequence. The differences in font size and positioning of text in each slide are the result of my lack of skill in working out how to control these features but later I realised there is some accidental emphasis due to font size that I am happy with.