Today in class we had to listen to several other multimodal projects. I can honestly say that after listening to about fifteen seconds of other pieces, I could tell how awful mine truly was. Once again I was witness to the writing rule that your first draft is pretty much absolute crap and so are the next five or six tries. I also learned that I wrote my script filled with evidence, which would be great if my audience were forty five year old high school teachers that desperately want to see evidence. Sadly, that’s not my audience. I learned that I have to make this script more interesting, and can possibly do so by taking away some facts and evidence and putting them into the project visually instead of audibly. I can guarantee that two days from now my script will be nothing like it is now.
I came to class on this day thinking that I was set. I thought that I had written and voiced the perfect script for the project. I should have realized by then that I should never expect my first draft to be perfect, but this ended up being far from perfect. What I written sounded like the warnings at the end of commercials that are spoken really quickly because they are full of boring facts that take away from the pathos in the commercial. I didn’t have the pathos; all I had was boring gibberish. I had to dig into the creative part of my mind to figure out this project. Even though I am 18, I had to start thinking like an 18-year-old instead of a student trying to sound smart by using big words in writing class. You cannot imagine how much it hurt me inside to write the final script of my PowToon video. I mean, I talked about Seth Rogen for Heaven’s sake. This unit taught me many, many things but I think that the most important thing that it taught me was that you have to be very creative and imaginative to be a successful writer.