Wednesday 29 January 2014

Developing my idea for the Mulitmodal Text

As my multimodal text will look like a diary and is set in a school, I need to decide what rooms will need to be included in my story. 
My multimodal text will cover a school week where my main character will cause a mishap each day in a different part of the school. Each scenario will first include the main characters version of events; and because he/she is a kid it will be a made up version of what actually happened, this is so it adds humour to the story and also because the children can relate to the story. Therefore I needed to think of 5 different scenes and think what might happen in them.

My first scene will be set in the canteen, looking at a canteen it is clear that a food fight should happen in this scene; with use of the tables and chairs, the food and involve the canteen staff too.
  
One idea could be the main character versus the evil dinner lady who looks something very similar to the one below.


My second scene will be set in a classroom, when looking at a primary school classroom, the main things that need to be included are a teacher, maybe a teaching assistant, pens, pencils, books and maybe paint.
Ms Battle-axe from Horrid Henry books
 
Miss Honey and Matilda
In this scene, the main character tells the story of how he/she saved the teacher from an alien that came in through the window so needed to attack the alien with the classroom supplies such as paint and paper bombs. But in reality, there was no alien and instead the main character ended up attacking the teacher.

My third scene will be set in the school library, in the school library the main character will interact with the books. My main idea is for him/her to make a den out of the books to hide from either the teaching assistant or maybe some small creatures.

My fourth scene will be set in the toilets, he/she will have a water fight with another student and found soaking wet by the headteacher. The main character will say it's because the other student started it but really it was his/her own fault. The headteacher will be just as scary as Ms Trunchbull or a huge male headteacher that resembles an army officer.
Ms Trunchbull from Matilda




And my fifth and final scene will be set on the field, the main character will end up getting incredibly muddy at school and having to be picked up by their parent. The child will say it's because they had to find the lost treasure but again it's only their imagination.
These are possible ideas for my story, the next thing to do will be to try and draw these characters and scenarios and make them possible.

Tuesday 28 January 2014

Starting to think of the story for my Multimodal Text

When thinking of an idea for my multimodal text, I've decided to base my idea from a book I read when I was in primary school. The book illustrated a girl's day at school, I remember enjoying the girls description of her events. That is why I've decided to have my multimodal text set as a diary. 
I had my first day of placement today which meant that I could look at examples of texts in the classroom. 

  

In the book corner, they had novels by Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson, the Horrid Henry novels, Doctor Who books also the Alex Rider novels by Anthony Horowitz. I believe my idea of a story will be similar to these novels as it follows one specific character and what happens to them. 

As my multimodal text is set as a diary, I thought I should look at the children's work in the classroom, how they drew but particularly how they drew people because in my text there will be interactions between the main character and his/her classmates.
  

 

I also looked into the children's books which they brought from home to see the illustrations which were similar to what I picture to be in my text.


When looking in the book corner, I picked up a Horrid Henry book because it is a character and book that is very popular. Henry's mischievous actions makes these books enjoyable for the children to read so that is why my character will get up to naughty mishaps in my multimedia text. But to show really how mischievous she/he is, I will also include a true version of what happened in the day, which may be shown through the eyes of a parent.