From Burnt to Savory

I had a difficult time starting this multimodal project. It wasn't until we had a conversation in the classroom about who our audience could be until I found my beginning ideas. I decided to do my project on learning how to cook and my audience is my future family. They were my motivation in how I chose to design my pictures, songs, and narration.
When I thought about someone who is in the semiotic domain of cooking, I immediately thought of my mother. Not only is she a great cook, but she also provided family dinners every night for our family. According to Gee, I guess you could say she was the producer and I was the consumer. Arriving into this semiotic domain was new for me and there was a lot to learn. My mom was patient with my "illiteracy" in the realm of cooking and I used "external viewing" in order to understand or hear the perspective of my mom and her knowledge of how to cook.
I designed my pictures at first to show how my "identity" in the world now is very much microwavable friendly. Then I found some pictures off google images to show how I see myself being much different in the future. My goal is to one day fit into the affinity group of those who know how to cook meals comfortably. I know that the more time I spend and the more experiences I have in the kitchen the more I will be able to pick up. I did not direct my project for those in the affinity group of cooking, it is directed towards those who will one day appreciate that I learned how to cook so that we could have family dinners, my future family. In attempting to be "multimodal", I made videos of how I am now and I chose songs that would fit. The narration was supposed to line up but unfortunately the more I played with it the more I felt like I was messing it up more.
To be honest, I definately entered in to the semiotic domain of movie making, and I had to learn from a to z how to go about making a movie. In doing this project, not only did I learn how to cook, but I also have learned everything from scratch how utilize windows movie maker, gabcast, and audio devices. I was constantly challenged throughout this project and now that I feel that I have had a taste of what making a movie feels like in the end, I don't think this is going to be my last time. I will continue to learn more about making a movie and cooking a meal and maybe someday I will be apart of a new semiotic domain, one that see's cooking and movie making as a "natural and normal" task.