Critique of the Creative Process – Multi modal

Resource Description

Critique of the Creative Process – Multimodal Assignment Task (Major Work)

Statement of Intent
Through intensive considerations of literary studies garnered from the Preliminary & HSC course, my reflection of the creative process, and construction of my multimodal website has evolved into one that will add value to the already established textual discussion that surrounds the impact that fiction has on reality, reality on fiction and the reader’s role in between. Through an evolutionary timeline of concept, form, and audience considerations, I critique my creative processes regarding draftings and revisions upon the criteria of my own discretion and the official NESA Marking Guidelines which focalises, textual integrity, quality of concept, and manipulation of form.

Beginning of Major Work

Initially influenced by my transitory engagement with Freudian Psychology, my Major Work intended to transform Erik Erikson’s comprehensive psychoanalytic theories into a poetic medium to explore the psychological and spiritual fundamentals of human development. However, I felt that this conceptually failed to transcend the expectations of the English syllabus through its inability to move beyond preliminary rubrics, and its deficiency in captivating broader audiences. Enlightened by my textual engagement with the ‘Common Module: Texts & the Human Experience’ – particularly ‘The Silver Moon: Reflections on Life, Death and Writing’, – inspiration of the imbuement of a narrative which reflects storytelling as a vessel for lived and perceived experience, effectively engaged the aforementioned issues of my original proposal. Furthermore, in the post-modernist tradition, I strategically decided to integrate metafiction as opposed to literary realism through multiple layers of storytelling to invite textual deconstruction and scepticism, – and capture the romantic inventiveness of imagination through literary paradigms. During the drafting process, I struggled to avoid a blasé usage of this device, such that original drafts heavily lacked textual integrity. As a result, I continued returning to my study of Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ in ‘Elective 3: Reimagined Worlds’ which simultaneously deepened my own conceptual understanding of literature & human experience, such contributing towards the textual integrity of my major work as expected by the Extension 2 course. This change was further accompanied by a change in form – from poetry to multimodal – as recommended by my teachers, instigating a thorough investigation process of avant-garde web-design such as Nam Le’s ‘The Boat’ which dexterously engages the senses, better than the other provided forms. Ultimately, it is this choice that multimodality awards my work – such maximising its engagement with the responder to empirically demonstrate literatures ability to replicate human experience – focalising the thesis of my major work. Additionally, this creative choice, as chartered by my studies of Module A: Textual Conversations which explores narrative evolution and its relation to modality, championing the multimodal form as the only type to experimentally validate the intrinsic multiplicity of storytelling and interpretation. Through this refinement, I believe the inherent conceptual frame of my major work suitably extends upon the outlines of other English syllabi – through considerations of appropriate textual representations and contextual relevances, justifying its suitability as a base for the expectations of the Extension 2 course. More importantly, these revisions of my original concept and form have extended my knowledge of the creative process as a composer to further the proficiency of my craft in external creative endeavours