I downloaded the image (https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/108058.jpg) and edited it first, by using the picsart application where i first cropped the image into the circle shape and coloured the outer border into black colour. After that, I added the text into it with the photo of Australian flag and again downloaded another picture (https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/108107.jpg) and dragged it into the previous image by cropping it into the triangle shape.
Additionally, reduced the opacity of the second image to give it a blur and faded effect. Then, at the bottom i clicked on the blend option to adjust the second image behind the mountain to give it a blended look. At last, i picked up a sticker of leaves and added it on the ground along with the vin4 filter on the image.
Blog posts are a great example of multimodality and creativity as we use filters, layouts, photographs, texts and linguistic resources to edit the image and post it as our blog post to show our creativity. As defined by Hodge and Tripp (1986), modality is ‘the perceived reality of the content ’. In other words, modality is that property (or combination of properties) of a representation which is understood as construing it as more or less real (Hodge & Tripp 1986). Moreover, multimodality is the gift of digital age where technology bring new things every day and we get new ideas and softwares to edit our photos and videos. Nonetheless, we also get to watch 3D and animated movies and play games everyday just by sitting at our home and enjoying the high definition effects. In other words, modality is not about ‘the absolute truth or untruth of representations’, but about ‘whether a given “proposition” (visual, verbal or otherwise) is represented as true or not’ (Kress & Van Leeuwan 2006).
This was the last and the third digital publishing post in the wordpress where i think i did quite better and improved than last two posts. Teacher’s reviews helped the most to bring the changes and correct the mistakes that i did in the last two posts. Moreover, for this post i tried to edit the video and upload it on the wordpress but i was unable to upload the videos because of some upgrade options. However, i managed to make a post at the last moment with the reflection and i hope this will work for my last digital publishing post. Hence, it was an amazing experience in editing photos and videos and got to learn a lot from Lynda.com that our teacher prefer to have a look at.
References
Hodge. R, & Tripp. D., 1986, ‘Children and Television: A Semiotic Approach’, Cambridge Polity
Kress. G, & Van. L. T., 2006[1996], ‘Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design’, London: Routledge
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