Blog post 7

Between the two topics of multimodality and genres there is a clear connecting with how the point of meaning of the "text" comes across to the reader. I put text in quotation marks because it doesn't necessarily mean reading or a writing of some kind. This could also refer to dialog and anything used to communicate the message. An example that can easily be seen to prove that there is some kind of relationship between multimodality and genre is when Stan Lee discusses the creation of the Hulk from comics to the television. In order to give the illusion and add some excitement for the fact that it wasn’t incredibly boring Stan Lee originally gave the Hulk the ability to speak while then when the Television series came out they took away this ability which added to the effect. The connection here was depending on the way Stan Lee or whoever was displaying the Hulk they had their own view on how this would get the message across and what would be the best form as test. What could kind of be used as another example is the creation of the romantic love novel. These kinds of novels can get people hooked extremely easy on them. Also usually when someone wants to get the romantic love story across the author wouldn’t just make a poster make a comic book. While I saw there is a relationship between genre and multimodality its also possibly for their not to be any kind of relationship. I saw this because of movies and books as these come in a lot of different kinds of genres and it doesn’t necessarily matter as they all can still get the message across.