Creativity Reflection

Hi guys!! 

This is the reflection of my creativity mission!! 

Overall I’m happy with how we did, I think we worked well as a team and did good work. I think I probably could’ve put a bit more of creativity into it but as it was my first I was unsure of different ways to do it. I did really like the GIFS I made and how I put everything together. I think maybe if we just did a little more with GIFs or even just the layout it would’ve been better! I did actually learn a lot from doing this presentation. For example, I didn’t know anything about the legal status of a GIF until doing research into it. Reading all about it actually made it interesting and usually I wouldn’t have much of an interest in anything like the legal status but because it was to do with GIFs, which I use and really enjoy I think that’s why I actually enjoyed learning about it and actually took it in. I didn’t realise how easy GIFs were to make, obviously, it’s way different than a few years ago but websites literally do it for you all you have to do is get a video and select the seconds. I’m sure when they were first made it wasn’t even close to how easy it is now. The success of the project was definitely how good all three of us worked together. It was so natural and we didn’t fight or argue and everyone really pulled their own weight which was nice! We definitely make a good team and if I get to pick who I work with in the future I would definitely consider working with Lauren and Danniella again! Another success would have to be learning a lot about GIFs but also using my existing knowledge especially how they’re used on social media sites. It was very useful having existing knowledge about GIFs as I was able to use it a lot and even to help Lauren and Danniella out with their slides and point them in the right direction. As I said I would’ve loved to do something more creative and added more to the presentation but I did struggle with ideas, but this is my first mission so I will use everything I learned in this mission for the future ones in hopes it’ll make them all much better. My friend's group are adding a video and I think that is such a good idea and I’d say it’ll work very well if only I had thought of that first. But again it is the first presentation and first proper written and research involved assignment of college so it is a big step and overall very proud of it all, hopefully, by the end of this four-year course, I can come back to this, my first presentation and still be proud of it but have lots more ideas on how I could improve it. It would be great to see and it would really be a tell on how far I’ve come and how much I’ve learned!! 

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Thanks for reading!! Talk soon,

Megan

GIFs update

Hi guys, welcome back to my second blog! Hope you all enjoy, This is the second instalment of the first mission, there will be another one after this. It will be my reflection.

This is an update on the mission of Art of the Animated GIF. We are halfway through our presentation, we are working well as a team so this is exciting to see it all come together. When I say we’re halfway there (wooow living on a prayer, sorry I had to) we have basically finished it we just have to do a little tweaking and fine-tuning! We all have similar ideas but we all come up with different stuff to add it in to make it better. I'm overall happy with the work we all put in and how it has come out. It’ll be exciting to see how it’ll look when we’re all done! I think we are really doing good work, especially for our first group project. We are all enjoying it and seeing it come together. We did end up using different resources than said before, I just used GIPHY for all the GIFs I needed. GIPHY was so handy to use as it had so many different gifs to use and it even let us make GIFs on the website so we made quite a few GIFs, we only included a few as we didn’t want to overpower the whole thing if it was covered in GIFs. I ended up spending hours on GIPHY looking at all the GIFs they had, my laptop memory is now nearly taken up with the number of GIFs I saved, lol. I didn't end up needing other resources as the slides I was doing, I had knowledge of already which was very handy! We used Google Slides to make the presentation that enabled us all to make the slides we needed to make and without having to send them to someone and telling them to put them all together, it worked very well and let everyone do their own part in their own time. This was an eye-opener as I had never used google slides before, it really just made it handy to do the teamwork we could communicate and then edit it and all. I definitely learned way more about GIFs in general and the history behind them. It was very interesting to learn about it, I didn’t realise the history behind them at all, I just thought they just popped up randomly when someone realised they could make them. Lauren and Danniella did great work too throughout the mission and their slides were very interesting! Overall I'm very happy with what we did and I hope everyone enjoys our presentation and we get good marks as that would make it all worth it! I'm also very happy with how much I learned about GIFs and I hope we can pass all the information we learned to everyone else. 

Thanks for reading, I hope you all enjoyed it. I’ll be back soon with my reflection for this mission, 

Talk soon, 

Megan

GIFs sourced from GIPHY

The Art of the Animated GIF

Hi guys, This is my first proper blog for my assignments and missions! I’ve never written blogs before this module so I hope you all enjoy this and let me know what you think!

This is a blog post about the first mission for the module Intro to Digital Media. I read through all the different topics and I was really tied between the Podcast and GIF topics as which to choose from. I kept reading through them and researched a bit on both of them and finally decided that I would pick the Art of the Animated Gif.  My goals for this mission is really just to learn all about GIFs, the history, how they came about and just overall how people use them in different ways. For an end product, I would hope to have a really good presentation to inform other people all about GIFs, also to have made different GIFs and to show them to the class. The resources that could help me along the way are google, Tumblr, and Artnet. I'm sure as I get more into this assignment I will use many other resources. I will update my resources in my other blog post if I have others. I'm excited to get into this fully and enjoy researching about GIFs. I’ve used GIFs for years now and it will be very interesting to actually learn about them. I usually just use them online in a funny setting and would never even had thought about a simple google to see where they come from or how they came about. I'm also looking forward to hearing other people's presentations about all the different topics, especially podcast ones as I really enjoy listening to podcasts. I was not sure who to go within a group but I asked around in class and on slack to see who was also doing Art of the Animated Gifs. Turns out two of my friends Lauren and Danniella wanted to do this topic. It worked out well for the three of us as we are friends and we can work together really well. We all really enjoy GIFs, and we all have an interest in learning all about them and what you can really do with them. I am excited to get into the mission properly and research and to see what Lauren and Danniella’s ideas are for it. It’ll be interesting to see how we all work together and to see if we have similar ideas or completely different, I would say they’ll probably be similar ideas. I am very nervous about having to get up and talk in front of my class as I haven’t really done anything like this before, especially in front of a big class. I am very glad though that it is in front of our lab classes and not our lecture class! Everyone in my class is really nice so it should be okay. Fingers crossed anyway and I will let you know how it goes after it.

Thanks for reading, hope you all enjoyed it!

Talk soon,

Megan

(Both GIFs sourced from GIPHY)