The Story

This GIF comes from a scene in the film called, Whiplash, where the young jazz student, Andrew Neimen, is practicing to be the core drummer of a studio band.  This said scene is from very early in the film where Neimen is practicing in order to show off his skills the next day to the band’s conductor. You can see in the GIF that he is sweating pretty hard and struggling  to keep going.  Throughout the film,  he drums  so hard and long  enough to make his hands start to blister and even bleed. Talk about blood, sweat, and tears.

The Process

When I saw this week’s Visual Assignment, it didn’t take me long to decide what I was going to use for my GIF . Whiplash was my favorite film from this past summer.  The reason why I chose this particular scene for this assignment is because I believe that it showcased Neimen’s emotions well enough and how much of a hardworker he is. I also thought it would make an interesting GIF and maybe it could convince some people to work as hard.

The Work

The programs that I used to create this GIF were the programs LICEcap and GIMP. LICEcap is a pretty simple and straightforward program that lets you record anything on your desktop as a GIF, so I used that to capture the scene of Neimen drumming. I then opened the GIF I recorded in the program called GIMP and used it to edit the layers, delete some frames, and cut the file size down a bit. It was fairly easy and I will probably make a tutorial out of it for a future assignment.