11th Grade English Essay-Contemporary Technologies

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Contemporary technology has enabled the representation of individual experiences through stories by allowing composers to reach a larger audience and create multisensory experiences. Digital texts such as Matt Huynh’s adaptation of Nam Le’s “The Boat” and Kevin Macdonald’s documentary “Life in a Day” illustrate how visual forms and multimodal presentations can engage viewers and help them better understand the struggles and experiences of others. These digital texts offer immersive experiences and create emotional connections through various techniques, such as imagery, dialogue, camera angles, and montages. By incorporating sensory-rich elements and authentic insights into people’s lives, digital texts shape how audiences perceive the world and allow for a more profound understanding of different experiences and ideas.

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11th Grade English Essay-Contemporary Technologies

How has contemporary technology enabled the representation of the individual experience through stories? Composers of digital texts influence a responder’s ideas and understanding of the world. The visual form of digital texts allows composers to reach a larger audience than written texts, and the contemporary forms of media create a multi-sensory understanding of individual experiences. The digital adaptation of Nam Le’s ‘The Boat’ pictured, adapted by Matt Huynh, shows an emotive representation of migration and escape from the Vietnam War, showing this tragic story through a multimodal presentation of the text. Similarly, Kevin Macdonald’s 2020 ‘Life in a Day’ presents an immersive experience for audiences, creating a virtual time capsule of life around the world on the 25th of July 2020. With the creation of these sensory-rich texts, composers are able to shape the way audiences understand both their texts and ideas.

The Boat
The visual form of digital texts allows a creator to reach a wider audience compared to written texts. The form of presentation allows the viewer to comprehend the ideas in a multi-sensory form. In Matt Huynh’s digital version of Nam Lee’s novel ‘The Boat’, the struggles that people fleeing the war in Vietnam are experiencing are depicted as fraught with uncertainty and danger, portrayed by the wave, which is a constant in the entirety of the
digital novel.