GIFs

After I joined a group which consisted of myself, Aleks Smyczynskiand and Jack Vaughan, we were having  difficulty choosing between GIFs, which was what I wanted to do or gaming which was what Aleks wanted to do, but in the end, thanks to Jack siding with me, we all decided that for our creativity assignment in digital media we would do a project on "the art of the animated GIF" for our project as, to me anyway, it seemed to be the most appropriate out of all the assignments we could choose from and since  we were still new and inexperienced we felt we should start off with something simple. Once that was decided Aleks became, I guess you could say, the leader of our group for this assignment. We then decided to split the different tasks to make the project more efficient and get it completed faster. I volunteered to work on the research for the project and find out as much as I could  about the history of the GIF and its place in the modern culture of today and what effect it has had on the people who have viewed them. Because I know very little about how making a GIF works, or computers in general, I just know the basics like how to print images, while Aleks and Jack decided to work on making some of the GIFs that we are going to show during our presentation. I went on to various web sites and researched other sources, such as mashable.com and flipbord.com and more, looking for the history of GIFs and how they have become a part of  modern day culture, which I have to say was very interesting especially learning about how old GIF really are and just how much variety there is in them, with some even being considered a type of digital art. 


We also decided that when we were presenting our project we would split the presentation between the three of us, I would go first and start the presentation off by talking about how the GIFs were created and their early history along with how it became so popular in modern culture and some of the people who have used it. Jack would then be the one to talk about some of the files and formats that are similar to GIFs along with some of the tools used to make them, and finally Aleks would talk about how the GIFs work. Then we would present the GIFs we created and then after which we would each talk about our individual input into the creation of the GIFs. We hoped to make at least three to four of the different types of GIFs before the deadline.