After scrolling through the ds106 assignment bank, I saw a couple of interesting assignments to look through but ultimately chose this one as one of the those I had the resources and skills to do:

As a huge movie fanatic myself, I figured this one would be fun to do and it’d be great practice to learn how to make my own gifs. It took some thought to choose which iconic movie scene would fit best as a gif and what better scene than the infamous stair dance in Joker.

After doing some quick research on how find video and make my gif, I headed to Youtube to find the actual movie scene. I decided to use Giphy as it’s quick and easy to use.

Giphy allows any videos or clips to be used from multiple websites, such as Youtube or Vimeo. So, I simply pasted my Youtube URL in and got to work!

I trimmed down the video to 4 seconds and chose the time slot I wanted for the gif. After making some simple adjustments, I posted and saved. Here’s how it turned out:

One thing that I’d like to learn how to do is to photoshop any image onto another. For example, this assignment asks for you to photoshop yourself into a historical event like in the movie Forrest Gump.

Photoshop, overall, seems like a great skill to have in graphic design and becomes really useful when it comes to creating eye-catching media or content. These skills can be implemented into so many different work fields like marketing, web design, photography, etc. and it enhances career opportunities.

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