Dr Oblivion wants an animated gif.

Here’s mine — my favorite scene from John Carpenter’s Christine.

It’s not quite the same without the dialogue (“Okay, show me!”) and the quirky music.

I had been wondering why creating an animated gif was our first assignment. It seemed so 1994. Ah, the memories: spinning balls and rainbow coloured horizontal rules. Those were the days. Actually, this was about the last time I made an animated gif.

But after watching Michael Wesch’s video From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able, I get it! In his lecture he says something like [I’m paraphrasing] … just as reading and writing are considered core literacy skills, the ability to edit video is fast becoming part — if not already — a key ability in this day and age.

He makes a good point. Somehow, I think Dr Oblivion agrees.

Making the gif was quite easy following the prompts provided and the heads-up from other participants on using the MPEG Streamclip Beta. That’s a great find. I’ve been using Wondershare Free YouTube Downloader, but this is much better.