Mode being used as something to convey meaning without the reliance on language. It reduces the risk of making language into something too broad or vague to where everything would fall into the category. Modes conveying meaning through various combinations of multimodality such as images with text or using specific colors to chunk or group things of a certain kind. Semiotic resources are having meaning while having the needed materials to make meaning, Semiotic being the meaning while the resources are what make meaning in the standpoint of culture and society. Looking at the limitations of one aspect like writing opens new ways of having other kings of semiotic resources like images fill in the weakness of text. It’s just words and sentences sometimes grouped in paragraphs but there is only so far that can go, after you add an image to a small sentence that for example describes a vibrant green field covered in blooming flowers. It is easier for some people to look at the words and see exactly what they feel the words say and describe while for others, it is better for them to have a reference of what they are looking at with the assistance of an image to go with the text.

This could be one version of ‘a vibrant green field covered in blooming flowers’. In this image of the prompt, there are rolling hills of green dotted with oranges and blues closer to the viewer who is looking down from atop a hill in a valley. In this other example of the same prompt one may see something more like this.

In this version of the same prompt the viewer is still looking down a hill but there is a wider variety in the flowers and the grass is tall and appears almost soft, the only things dividing the frame are the various cross paths that define the small level differences in the foreground to the background. There no longer seems to be a valley surrounding on all sides but just an undisturbed bit of a blooming flower field.

Whenever I think of fields the number one thing that comes to mind is the beauty of free flowing winds unrestricted by walls of stone and flowing grasses that seem like a vast green ocean that one doesn’t need to swim through but can instead walk and leisurely pace through. I see a combination of different fields from the various games I’ve played which include Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom from the Zelda franchise but there are also little bit of the fields from Ocarina of Time despite its lower graphics and Twilight Princess even though its colors are more muted and toned down to fit the almost somber vibe of the game’s story. Heavy influence of these games is what I see in my head when writing my own stories that have fields in them or when I’m pondering what to write next while I fall asleep. This visualization and progression while I settle in for the night helps me figure out where to go next and I just recall the thoughts of the night before throwing them into the writing and revising when needed plot points need to line up correctly.

Wrapping things up, the need for semiotic resources to create multimodal objects that convey meanings without limitations is a basic meaning of mode and what it is described as by the ‘What is Mode?’ resource from week 8.