Art of The Animated GIF: Product

Hi Guys, welcome back to my wonder filled blog!

Good news everyone! We are gladly nearly done our first ever mission! All we have to do now is present, which I am so nervous for but I know it will be okay (I hope). I get nervous before everything but this is our first big presentation, I am just is glad that it is in front of our group instead of the whole lecture class...

Anyways, In this blog I will explain what we done to make and build our presentation.

Firstly we picked the topic as explained in my previous blog.
We then actually collected all the historic information, legal status information and popularity of GIFS.
Getting the information wasn't as difficult as we thought It would be but at that it was still quite difficult to make bullet points out of for our presentation. Some information was actually quite interesting such as the different ways of making GIFS.
We made out own GIFS which was quite fun also. We created them using GIPHY. We also found out that there is a more difficult was of making a GIF. Basically you have to get 12 images of an action but very similar images that aren't too far apart and add the images to a file to make GIF.

Megan, Lauren and I communicated through slack, twitter and text as mentioned in previous blog. Meeting up wasn't so difficult after all. We worked on the slides during our lab time on the Macs and on our own Macbooks. Having MacBooks outside college times made it so much more easier to get work done.

Everyone in our group has done different things and I think that our presentation will be worth a watch and a listen.
Our presentation was put together nicely, as expected. We used the website GIPHY a lot, which we found very helpful. We also used certain websites for different information on google and made sure we referenced them in our slides.

We made our presentation on google slides so all members of the group could alter, add and edit pieces of work into the presentation when we weren't together.
We all decided to do the slides black with white writing to stand out from everyone else.
I like the way our presentation is interesting and funny.

Im happy with the group I am in as we did work very well together. We all put 100% work into this presentation and it was all done as a team. My team mates were also very helpful in regards to finding the information needed to make the slides. GIFS were found by us all and inserted into the slides, this gave our presentation a unique feature. Each person pulled their weight and it was not just left to one person to fix so I am lucky in that sense to be with such talented students.

Wish me luck for the presentation, I probably won't need it but just to be sure... pray for me please and thanks..

Thank you for reading!
Student going offline,
Danniella Campbell.

Art of The Animated GIF: Process

Hi Guys, welcome back to my wonder filled blog!

We have started our first ever mission for my module "intro to digital media"!
This mission was a creativity mission so I wanted to chose something that I was interested in so I could put my creativity skills to the test. To be honest my choice was a good one which I am so excited to start.

We have to make a presentation on the history of GIFS and the production of them and much more!
We had a range of choices on what to do for our first mission including; Art of The Animated GIF, Digital Audio, Gaming and so much more. I chose the mission Art of The Animated GIF as I had the most interest in this and I wasn't at all knowledgeable with the other mission choices... I obviously knew what a GIF was and was interested to see how they were made and how they are used and what platforms they are used on. I wasn't so interested in the legal status of GIFS as I am more of an informal person and cant process law or theoretical things in my big creative brain full of practical ideas..

The first mission entailed that we must be in a group with maximum 3 people or we could do it alone or with 1 other person.
of course I picked a group of 3 because I love that saying "The more the merrier"
In my group there is Megan, Lauren and me of course. We aren't nessesarily best friends at this stage in this course but I hope by the end of the mission I will learn more about the kind of people they are and how creative all our minds can be when put together.    I feel that we will work well as a team, which will lead our presentation and information to come along nicely.

My goals for this mission is to communicate well with my group to collect all information on the history, legal status, popularity and use of GIFS. We also have to create our own GIFS!
I hope to produce a well put together presentation including the GIFS we make.

For the start of our mission we just sorted out the media we were going to use as a communication course and how and when we were going to meet up to practice. We decided to use the media platform slack to communicate as everyone in the chat that was doing Art of The Animated GIF shared their ideas with us all which was helpful. We are also going to Twitter and text message to communicate privately about when we could meet up with each other. Meeting up will be quite difficult outside college as all of our group life quite distant to the college, I hope it works out okay.

In my next blog I hope to write about all the work we will have done to date.

Thank you for reading!!
Student going offline,
Danniella Campbell.

The adventure begins...

Hi everyone welcome to my very first blog post. In this post I will just be introducing myself and telling you bit about me and my wonderful family.

 Danniella here, I am 18 years old and I am in my first year of studying creative digital media in Technological University Dublin, Blanchardstown Campus. I chose to study in this campus as the course I'm doing involves everything I am interested in.

Abit about my family:
I have 3 sisters... yeah its a nightmare! Well I have two older sisters, Pierina and Natalia. And one younger sister, Taina.

I am currently living in Kildare and it takes me about an hour and 30 minutes to get to college (that's on a good day). most of the time I have to stand on the bus for so long.

Outside college:
I usually go out with my friends, not drinking but just adventuring around. I think of myself as an "adventurous" person. I am always looking for new areas to capture moments on my phone and my cameras. My favourite place to take aesthetic pictures is in forests as I love nature photography. I love taking pictures of ducks and other colourful birds and animals.
I also take sports pictures of my little sister playing soccer most Sundays. I still need to learn how to take action shots though!

within the next few weeks I would love to invest in a better camera for example the Nikon D3500 seems to be my cup of tea! I'm sure the camera and picture quality will definitely be worth the break in my bank account...

I hope that my blog will be fun filled with everything that I do in my course and if you are reading this now and are thinking of doing my course, do it. its just amazing. I think Im in my third week of college now and I will never look back. I have also made new friends.. lots of them and they are all really nice and will hopefully become life long friends.

I feel like I've already settled in very well and involving myself in activities has also really helped me grow and mature!

A shot I took of a beautiful duck in Donadea Forest, Co.Kildare