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I tried to record the scene on the street in front of the teaching building. I marked its location on Google Map.
I noticed that Two young men were smoking. The smell is very offensive to the nose. They were speaking Chinese, so I could understand them. The topic they are discussing is “six fire facilities”. It could be their coursework.
Cold wind was like knives breeze. I felt pain and hypothermia in my neck and face.
http://多模态 – 维基百科，自由的百科全书 — Multimodality – Wikipedia
Street sound? -cars horns, engines, brakes, passengers talking, “six fire facilities” talking, bells hanging from pedestrians’ backpacks, steel pipes falling to the ground, “urban chaos”. Everyone was still in a hurry, but perhaps because of the weather and the fact that it was Friday, the tone of voice was lighter and the manner of walking was more cheerful.
Little sunshine, bright noon, skewing sun: A typical sunny winter day in London. The sun is not overhead, so it is not strong, especially if it is blocked by tall buildings.
Sky? The sky was clear. It’s hard for me to describe that blue. I think the weather in London is very special: it’s always very, very clear. I have never seen London half-sunny. That blue is as vibrant as bright red and emerald green in such a winter.
I noticed the Christmas lights up in the street. Does Christmas start so early in London?
Dry, no rains, but not dry so. There is little of the pure dry cold of my hometown in London. The cold air is hard and heavy, mixed with the smog of burning coal, and can make the whole respiratory system dry and tingling like a half-gas frozen knife.
In addition to the pictures I took, I also recorded an audio of the street sounds. You can hear steel pipes falling (there are tall tower cranes under construction nearby), the roar of car engines, the friction of roads being rolled over, ambulances roaring past, pedestrians talking and laughing.
I didn’t go out too far because it was so cold. My hands were frozen and it hurt.
I think multimodality is a way to use multiple media and ways to tell a story. With each new medium, there are changes in the encoding of the information it carries, in the way the author selects and cuts the information (which reflects the author’s subjective processing), and in the way the reader is expected to be triggered to receive and think about the information. My writing is based on other modalities, so I’m trying to describe colors and things on pictures, how my skin and respiratory system feel, the sounds I hear, and so on. But the rhetoric of these words in order to make them perceived by the reader cannot be compared with their own directness and clarity.