Image, Text, and Sound Modes in 'Tokyo Olympiad': A Multimodal Analysis of Meaning Construction

This research analyzes the multimodal nature of the documentary 'Tokyo Olympiad', focusing on how image, text, and sound modes interact to construct meaning. The study reveals the dominance of narrative reproduction in image modality, using a series of vectors to construct the athlete's actions and achieve the construction of the documentary's meaning. However, interactive and compositional meanings also play an important role in completing the meaning construction. Additionally, the textual mode in the documentary primarily utilizes psychological processes in the conceptual function to achieve meaning construction, while the interpersonal function also plays a role in completing the meaning construction process. Finally, the various modes, such as sound, text, and image, complement and cooperate with each other to form a relationship of reinforcement and non-reinforcement, achieving the construction of meaning.