Session 2: Ideation for your GIF
Introduction
Animated gifs are kind of like the flipbooks of the digital age. Quick and easy to produce and distribute, but with almost endless creative possibilities, the creation of animated gifs is a great way to begin to explore both digital and traditional time based media. The popularity of animated gifs in social media and advertising, the rise of short form video sharing sites like Vine and Instagram, and the ability to easily create short animations and videos with mobile devices make this kind of "micro cinema" an important part of our contemporary media landscape.
Project Overview
- Photoshop Introduction
- Storyboarding
- Shoot your GIFs
- Build your GIFs
- FINAL SUBMISSION - Animated GIF Project
In this session, we'll continue to prepare for the final animated GIFs with the next step: the Storyboarding project. Your three GIF subjects will be:
1 - Human Gif
Must express a human gesture or movement
Gesture must be preformed by part or all of an actual human person
Can include other inanimate objects or props
2 - Mechanical Gif
Must express a mechanical movement (machines, factories, devices, tools, etc)
Movement should be performed by inanimate man made objects
No humans, animals, or natural or natural-appearing objects may appear!
3 - Natural Gif
Must express a natural movement (wind, water, sun & moon, animal movement, etc.)
Movement should be performed by natural, or natural-appearing, inanimate objects
No humans, actual animals, or man-made objects may appear!