I made a gif of the scene when Andrew and Steve, some of the main characters, are using their telekinesis abilities to fly. I recently watched this movie and I thought it was really well made and deserved a gif. I like this scene particularly because in my opinion it’s the best thing to one could do with telekinesis. It’s what I would mainly do if I had the same power.
It was actually a bit difficult to create but I’ll talk about that in the weekly summary.
I’ve been curious about making GIFs for a while now, but have never been motivated to look up how to make them. Well this finally convinced me to do it.
I don’t really have a particular favorite movie, but I loved seeing the new Avengers movie twice this summer so I decided to use The Avengers. I found my favorite scene on youtube and used the tutorial found here: http://ds106.us/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_Animated_GIFs_with_MPEG_Streamclip_and_GIMP
TADA! My first GIF:
I made my gif using the software suggested and following the videos. I pulled a clip from one of my favorite comedy movies of all time, Tommy Boy. As a background, Tommy is trying to sell brakes to the man watching what is happening by illustrating what happens to his customers if he chooses to not buy from him.
My first assignment pulled from the movie tommy Boy
So for my first animated GIF I chose to make a clip from one of my all time favorites, quite possibly the most epic war movie ever made, Liberation!. This Soviet film (well, series of films) tells the story of … Continue reading
The Creative Process:
YAY, I finally created my first gif. Initially, the task was daunting, but the blog about how to create a gif helped me immensely–I don’t think I could’ve done it so easily without it. (I tried, but it was one of those things where there was just SO many kinds of software offered online. And I wasn’t sure what was safe or not.) http://ds106.us/handbook/tools/creating-animated-gifs-open-source-software/ Check out that link, seriously, so helpful.
I recently saw Fight Club for the first time this summer. I know, it took me way too long. I was definitely out of the loop on that one. But it quickly became one of my favorite movies of all time–definitely in my top ten anyways. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are incredible; not to mention, I love a good penis joke as much as the next dude (or chick). Anyways, this is the pinnacle point of the movie–pinnacle meaning: gave me the chills, point I feel in love with the movie, etc.
If you haven’t seen this movie, don’t worry my gif doesn’t give anything away. Also, it’s not too late to watch it, but I recommend you watch it as soon as possible. SO GOOD.
Here is the youtube video that I used to make the gif from:
I recommend it. Also, the song by The Pixies that plays–couldn’t have picked a better song. Love it. Sorry, I’ll stop gushing now.
I chose to extract my GIF from “Cool Hand Luke” starring Paul Newman. I highly recommend the movie, and without ruining it, the above GIF is from a scene where Luke, Paul Newman’s character, is eating 50 hard-boiled eggs as part of a bet he made and the whole prison population has money on either his success or failure.
I originally intended to use a different scene, where Luke says “Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand,” after bluffing his way into winning a prison poker match, but it was too long and I opted for a scene that I felt was better suited for this format. I utilized the tutorial from the ds106 website and since I already had the movie in a digital format, I cut it down to size in windows movie maker before pulling it into MPEG Streamclip because I noticed some serious lag when I pulled the whole movie in initially. Following the tutorial, I then took the finished product from Streamclip and pulled it into GIMP to compile my individual JPEG’s into an animated GIF.
Before realizing there was a tutorial, I opted to do what I usually do which is google “How to (insert problem here),” in this case “How to make a GIF from video,” which led my to gifnija. So I took the trimmed video clip from windows movie maker, uploaded it to gifninja, and this was the final product:
I really wasn’t happy with the quality and wouldn’t recommend this method, even though it is easier and faster.
This is my awesome amazing GIF. I created it with a little help from DS106 Handbook. I love Dr. Seuss’ books and I especially love the movies made from them. Recently, I watched Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax and the message “Change the Future” struck a cord with me. For most my peers they are either just being college or nearing the end of their college careers, either way there is a lot of pressure to answer who are you going to be? I believe when confronted with the prospect of the future we all look confused and frightened much like Ted in this GIF. All I can say is watch the Lorax and be inspired; maybe even save a tree!
Assignment 1
I’m just going to say it right now that creating a Gif was the hardest thing I did this week. I did a lot of research on how to do this and downloaded a ton of different software to figure it out. First thing I saw before I even started thinking about how to make my own gif was Martha’s twitter post about first UMW student (I believe the student’s name was Alex Spangler). So I clicked on the link to the blog and read a little about how his made his gif. I also found the tutorial on the DS106 website that I found very helpful: http://ds106.us/handbook/tools/creating-animated-gifs-open-source-software/ The software I downloaded that I actually used was Fastest Youtube downloader, and MPEG Streamclip. What I found most difficult at first was figuring out how to download youtube videos. That’s when I read about Fastest Youtube downloader on the tutorial site. After that it was really easy for me to search for a youtube video to download. After the video downloaded and I saved it I opened up the MPEG Streamclip. I followed the directions on the tutorial to shorten the clip to the part I wanted. I had trouble at first figuring out how to trim, and select in and out of the movie clip, but I finally got it. I then followed the directions on the tutorial on changing it to other formats. I changed the format to different screen shots and then I uploaded them to the website http://makeagif.com/ and then it created my gif for me. It felt really good to me that I figured it out.
So after saying all about the process of how I made my gif and frustrations I had I’m now going to talk about why I chose it. This scene is from the movie The Hunger Games. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/ In a short summary there are 12 districts that every year they offer up one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death. I won’t tell too much for those of you who have not seen the movie. I chose it because it was one of my favorite parts of the movie. It is when Katniss is saluting district 11, and it is one of the main turning points in the movie that will start a rebellion in the future. I am very happy about how this gif turned out.
