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Resource 1 Focus: Multimodal Text media type="youtube" key="82n1PX1hVEY" height="315" width="560" Description of Resource

This video has been designed by Tourism Australia, to highlight the places and experiences that make Australia unique and promote these significant features to local and potential overseas visitors. The focus of this video is to involve Australians to share their favourite Australian place or experience with the world. The catchy slogan of the campaign “There’s nothing like Australia”, indicates that Australia is a unique country that is unlike anywhere else in the world. This uniqueness that Australia has to offer, is demonstrated by the use of different clips that highlight the places, people, experiences and atmosphere. The combination of these images and integration of the audio, spatial and gestural features work together to create a video clip that is relevant to it’s purpose. All these elements work well together to create a video that is enjoyable to watch and relevant to the unit of work. Relevance to Unit Outcome

The 'There's nothing like Australia' video clip is relevant to the chosen HSIE stage 2 outcome, as it provides opportunities for students to explore natural, heritage and built features in Australia (BOS, 1998, p. 81). The video clip also addresses the unit focus, where students will be investigating and evaluating the significance of particular sites and places and what people value about them (BOS, 1998, p. 81). By engaging with this multimodal text, students will be familiarised with the significant places that Australia has to offer. They will listen to the different stories shared by Australians and their favourite locations and experiences in Australia. Students will then use this Australian places to explore their natural, built and heritage features and their locations. Aspect of LIteracy Addressed

The aspect of literacy that will be addressed are the multimodal facets of the resource. Students will look at the design of the multimodal text and the interrelationship between the linguistic, visual, audio, spatial and gestural elements (Healy, 2004, p. 21). They will discuss the ways these elements work together to create a multimodal experience for the viewer. Students will also focus on the spoken language included in the video, and it’s ability to achieve the purpose. By engaging with this video students will be able to use their listening and viewing skills. Here, the ability of students to develop oracy skills is fundamental to students’ literacy development (DET, 2002, p. 2). In saying so, students will be given the opportunity to use develop these talking and listening skills, during and after viewing this video clip. They will uses their communication skills to discuss their reaction to the video and how it is portrayed through images, mood, lighting, music etc. This will allow students to acknowledge the social function of the text, which is essentially about how we communicate, and go beyond the basic reading and writing texts (DET, 2002, p. 2). Students will be able to understand the power of multimodal texts and their ability to combine different literacy features and create meaning.