I knew as soon as I read the assignment which movie scene I wanted to do. I haven’t watched The Dead Poets society in a long time, but you only need to see it once to have this scene stick with you. It always made me feel left out to be sitting down when Tom takes to his desk in blatant disregard for the authority of the school and says, “Oh Captain my Captain”, with the rest of his class close behind. It almost makes me forget that Robin Williams did Flubber.

Making this GIF was a little harder than my other ones. I tried to do it on my own, but every online gif maker I found wouldn’t let me put the pictures together fast enough and it came out really jumpy and bad. So instead, I followed Jim’s tutorial: ripping the scene from YouTube to MPEG Streamclip, pulling it up in GIMP and exporting the JPEGs as a GIF. It was pretty straight forward, but I didn’t have any of the software when I started so I had to download all of it and get my bearings in GIMP. I’m happy with the result though. I think this is the perfect ending to an amazing movie and it is the part that everyone remembers.