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    Multimodal Polyphony Response


    Multimedia has changed the course of history dramatically.  It is scary to think about the wide spread access we have to images and videos all over the internet, and anyone with a computer has the ability to publish their own multimedia piece very easily.  We have the ability to combine static modes of writing with still images.  We can record our own voices, make our own music, add our own sound effects, and much more.

    What we know as slideshows today has a technical name called "Flash documentary."  Authors are able to create films of still images and voice-commentary over them.  This static mode of writing is a cool medium between video and photography.

    Flash documentary is just one way speech, music, and sound effects have been used in different ways.  Therefore we can make the case that these things are continually combined and just used in different forms meaning we only have been using different modes of rhetoric and not new media. 

    With the new modes of rhetoric there comes different ways to portray meaning just as still images have different techniques.  Moving the frame and timing the projection can interpret many different meanings.

    The movement of the frame can change competition and can also magnify an object.  In "The Way West" the author used techniques like examining, revealing, and point at a certain scene they wanted you to focus on.  Our understanding of the scenes are simultaneously altered by the framing the author chose.

    The most important communication through all of these different modes is still language.  The written and speech are always confirmation to what we may think we are interpreting.

    In the age of the internet it is extremely important that we focus on the written and verbal language because if this begins to evolve we are all in big trouble!

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