Mission 1 - Production
Two weeks have passed since my last
blog post and from what I can say is a lot of work has been done since, Where
to even begin I guess ill focus on what work the other two Keith and David have
done first then we can talk about my progress. So for last two weeks David has
been collecting research on the history of GIF’s and putting together his work
into a sort of timeline to present in his section of the PowerPoint while Keith
has been drinking a lot of coffee but also managing to get some work done too.
He always made sure we were all on schedule and knew what the hell we all were
doing and that we didn’t overlap anywhere which happened anyways on several occasions
especially when talking about the history and timeline part.
While we were still meeting up
twice a week, I was having a wonderful time at home learning all about making
gifs and the beautiful horrors I could try to make with the skills I learned. Before
I go showing you my gifs though I should probably tell you some of the things I
learn and some tools I used along the way. I started out with learning some of
the issues around gifs and tried to focus on the advantages and disadvantages
of gifs, their constraints or weaknesses anything that could come across as a
fun fact that people would remember when using gifs.
I really wanted my presentation to
come across as clear and easy to understand I wanted the listener to listen to
me and not be glaring at the computer screen trying to read for themselves. I
knew while doing this though would mean I would really have to learn off my
work and make sure I know what I’m talking about as I wouldn’t have any
information on the board and mostly just topic points/bullet points. It needed
to look attractive as well, I’ve seen lectures in college and outside of
college where teachers would show their work by an image or a video on a slide
and with no text around it which I saw as a nice feature to try use in my work.
Finally came the gifs, oh the
beautiful gifs, I was quite pleased with how they turned out and to my surprise…
they were somewhat good and entertaining which was a blessing. I ended up using
Giphy to make my gifs as it was free and came with a huge directory for finding
and using assets in your gifs. As the whole project was to focus on exploring a
topic I had not done before I wanted to make sure I presented lots of practical
work alongside my knowledge that I leant over the past two weeks.
The famous and horrifying gif of Carly
from the hit Disney show ICarly which I edited a photo of her to make her have
a demonic smile and then thought why not just loop it and give it a disgusting
effect like a horror show. Here is two other gifs I made while working on this
project.
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