Excerpt 2: the escape (news Bulletin 07.03.2007, 12:47 pm) At this point of the production process, the cutter and the journalist’s opinions converge. Nevertheless, their opinion quickly differs: as the cutter reconsiders the running option (1.16, below), the journalist emphasizes the strength of the breathing sound by the means of multimodal resources (1.17-25, below). To this end, the journalist imitates the breathing sound not only ‘phonically’ (by breathing himself loudly) but also ‘corporally’ (by placing an open hand on his chest). By doing so for 10 seconds, he embodies a behaviour existing in the video footage and, in this way, emphasizes its significance.