Task 7 – Mode Bending
I tried to keep the New London Group’s key concepts of hybridity and intertextuality in mind while redesigning my ‘What’s in my Bag’ task. As they described, ‘hybridity highlights the mechanisms of creativity and of culture as-process particularly salient in contemporary society’ (p. 82). Intertextuality ‘draws attention to the potentially complex ways in which meaning (such as linguistic meanings) and constituted through relationships to other texts (real or imaginary), text types (discourse or genres), narratives, and other modes of meaning (such as visual design, architectonic or geographical positioning)’ (p. 82). Examples of hybridity and intertextuality that come to mind from this task are some indirect references to Covid (face masks and the words ‘safety protocols’ written in my notebook), Starbucks, and Apple (iPhone) products, including the use of an iMovie trailer for this project.
A benefit from this redesign is that I think the viewer would get a better sense of me and my personality from watching my iMovie trailer than from reading my Task 1 post. I believe the theme and music adds an additional emotional element, and allowed me to do it in a creative way (hybridity). A challenge I faced was that putting together the iMovie required more technical skills necessary than simply writing about it.
For reference, here is my original ‘What’s in my Bag’ photo.
Please find the link to my mode bending ‘What’s in my Bag’ task below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cUhrFukYxORcG6m-3fB2WYxI5jF2NX0/view?usp=sharing
Reference
The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review 66(1), 60-92.
Love your movie trailer, Allison!!! I don’t know if watching it would give me a better idea about who you are – I still liked reading your textual introduction as well and I feel it gives the reader some unique insights into your thinking process behind the task. The trailer leaves much more open to interpretation, but it is also more fun.
I see what you mean Olga. I guess I assumed that my choice of how to bend the task would give a better insight into my personality versus a written piece, but maybe not!
Maybe the choice in how you chose to mode-bend tells us something about you. This video makes me think that you have a sense of playfulness or that maybe you don’t take yourself too seriously, and that is a different insight than when you first presented the task.
Allison,
I thought your video was simply fantastic. I think it speaks volumes to the type of person you are and your capabilities. I remember watching your video a while back when I was hoping for inspiration in how to complete this task, and being quite impressed. Though to me it still left a lot of questions as to who you are as a person, no matter which mode we chose for this task, we all managed to hit on certain aspects of our lives and character, and omitted others. In your case, I feel like I know more about your personality, while still being curious about things like your career and where you live.