The Blog Before the Break

When I started on the mulit-modal project, I though it would be a really fun way to dive deeper into a certain topic. Although it was very 'freeing' in a sense, I did find that it made me become more openminded to the interpretation of the various medias. For example, creating a Facebook for Geoffory Chaucer is a good idea in theory, but the way he would utilize the social media is not in any way similar to how I would post. Also, I discovered that Tweeting the way Chaucer would tweet concurred in me revamping my entire vocabulary and being untranslatable to the public.

However, a multi-media project can in ways be extremely effective because it sort of 'dumbs down' the content of the original into a more relatable way. Media, if properly and accurately re-rendered can be very useful in argumentation. If thrown together at the last moment, it may not be as accepted or understood.

Opposites Attract

Yes. A class containing multimedia examples is very appealing. Not only does it help me relate to the material it also keeps me 'guessing' (for lack of a better word) about what could be relatable to something written a few decades ago. I think also considering the generation I am apart of we are naturally more bent towards having a lot of media thrown at us and in a weird, multitalented way we are able to process things and actually learn in a way. Especially this class, considering it is really fast paced and very structured, it is nice being able to relate Old English to some YouTube Old Spice commercials. I believe I have said this before, how we do not just graze over material, but rather we dig deeper in the principles of English and Rhetoric, and sometimes having a tangible, current world example really helps to make the subject a little more "swallowable."