Your instructor may require you to complete a multimodal project. To begin, it’s important for us to understand what a multimodal project is. Multimodal projects use a mixture of modes to express the message. You could use a mixture of textual, visual, spatial, and aural means to do this. You are already familiar with a lot of multimodal pieces. Think about billboards, PowerPoint presentations, and videos. All of these artifacts use different modes of communication to get their point across. To understand a video thoroughly, for example, you may need to read any text that is on the screen, pay attention to the visuals, and listen to any music and dialogue that is playing.

When creating multimodal projects, it is important to consider how the different modes interact in order to fully and effectively convey your message. When you create a PowerPoint presentation, for example, you should attempt to sync up the words on the screen and your oral presentation. Doing this allows your audience to better understand your message. You also want to make sure that the text and visuals on the screen do not overpower your oral presentation because then the audience may not understand what you are trying to tell them as thoroughly. You have to try to balance the different modes.

Your instructor will have specific guidelines for any multimodal projects that you are required to complete.