Firstly, Eddie, Denis and me met up after college to shoot some photos and videos for our process of making the GIF's. We had in mind the 3 types of GIF's we wanted to use but we had to experiment on the places we wanted to photo shoot for the GIF's. For the meme GIF, we chose a rooftop with Denis as the centre of attention where he would jump off a mini ledge with a caption of 'FML':
For the second GIF, we used Eddie as the centre of attention and our goal was to take a bunch of photos rotating him and turning them into a GIF:
For the last GIF, we wanted to do a cinematic GIF involving rain, but unfortunately on the day it was slightly cloudy so we improvised. We used a train as the centre of focus for the cinematic GIF:
On my part, my role was to do the research on the GIF on the history of it, and why it is popular today. My goal for this presentation was to not focus heavily on the history and to keep it brief to avoid it being boring.:
Also, considering a lot of people were also working on the GIF, I thought that the whole thing was saturated so I wanted to focus more on the facts that not a lot of people knew and the process of making the GIF. Finding the information was easy enough but I also used a bit of personal knowledge of social media to construct my presentation. What I did encounter a bit of difficulty in was my lack of knowledge of social media sites I have never used so I decided to skip the ones I lacked info on and just stuck to the three core ones; Facebook, Twitter and Instagram:
One of the most interesting facts I've learned is that clouds we seen in 'Super Mario' was a GIF in itself! I also learned how far back in time the GIF format existed which is also very fascinating and the evolution of it over the years showed me how such a simple thing could be used to express emotions on social media. I also talked about the many different ways that GIF's are used on different social media platforms so that was also interesting.
Also, considering a lot of people were also working on the GIF, I thought that the whole thing was saturated so I wanted to focus more on the facts that not a lot of people knew and the process of making the GIF. Finding the information was easy enough but I also used a bit of personal knowledge of social media to construct my presentation. What I did encounter a bit of difficulty in was my lack of knowledge of social media sites I have never used so I decided to skip the ones I lacked info on and just stuck to the three core ones; Facebook, Twitter and Instagram:
One of the most interesting facts I've learned is that clouds we seen in 'Super Mario' was a GIF in itself! I also learned how far back in time the GIF format existed which is also very fascinating and the evolution of it over the years showed me how such a simple thing could be used to express emotions on social media. I also talked about the many different ways that GIF's are used on different social media platforms so that was also interesting.
That's all for now, until the next post.
