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)