Multimodality is the combinations
of multiple different modes into one medium to create a flowing concept that
makes the most sense. The point of
multimodality is to make a concept understood as easy as possible using
different modes that work together. Genre is a category of artistic, musical,
or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content.
I’m not entirely sure how genre and multimodality have a relationship but one
way that I can rationalize it in my mind is that multimodality itself is a
genre. Mediums that use multiple modes are in their own genre, while mediums of
single modes are a different genre. However upon reading Appendix 2, I can see
that genre itself is made up of multiple modes. What goes into a genre for film
and television is the narrative, characterization, themes, setting,
iconography, and filmic techniques. All of these are different modes that go
into determining the genre of a certain show so it exemplifies that
multimodality is a component of genre.
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