GIF Development Process.

Introduction

For our first group project for Digital Media, we were first tasked with choosing a mission within the  Creativity section. Afterwards, we then had to research about the selected choice before we create an example that represents that selected choice. Finally, we then present our findings and creations to our lecturer for assessment.

Week 1

On the first week of October, we were given the project, afterwards, we got into groups of three based on who wanted to create or research which option. I got into a group with Christopher Mc Keon and Cian O'Dwyer. We all wanted to create an Animated Gif. We joined the Animated Gif server on Slack. We didn't brainstorm much about what to do and how we would tackle this project. We briefly mentioned about the project and what we would do to each other. It wasn't until Friday that we finally discussed it in person. After considerate brainstorming, we each assigned ourselves tasks to do until the deadline.

Christopher agreed to do the Intro to our presentation and to create and explain Photographic Gifs. Cian agreed to create Music Gifs and explain what they are. Finally, I agreed to talk about Gifs in Pop Culture and the process of how I created my Gifs through GIPHY; a free online database of Gifs that doubles as a Gif maker.

Week 2

On the second week, during a free lab, we got together and began working on our portion of the Presentation and our Gifs. For Pop Culture Gifs I had decided to go for Monty Python as my example of Pop Culture Gifs. Christopher went for photography gifs and Cian went for music gifs. I went ahead and researched how Gifs have an impact on Pop Culture and made gifs through GIPHY. During that same week, we got together and worked on our project together.

Week 3

This week, we finally got together for the last time and pieced together our project. We corrected or changed anything that we felt was too long or unnecessary before we saved our project into a file of its own. During that same week, we also had to present our project to Shawn.