This is a GIF of my 2014 high school class playing flag football last year and me attempting to grab the blue team's flag. I was curious about how good these series of photos would look when presented as a GIF, hoping that it would be similar to a frame-by-frame replay. This is the closest I got to it.
GIFs have gained popularity these past decades because they are overall entertaining. They are short, which appease our attention span. Longer GIFs and video could sometimes lose our interest. Also, they put emphasis on a special moment in time, such as a significant scene in a movie. A moving picture adds more to a story rather than a stationary frame of a photo/video.
http://makeagif.com/98OUXi This is a low quality video of me spinning in a chair at the Vlock Center in Maxcy. The way it loops is hard to manipulate...and so is the angle of the video, but I decided to give it a try anyway.
http://makeagif.com/6NJSWF One more GIF I made is actually one I made last year for a project I did on popcorn. I'm not kidding. For this GIF I arranged the photos in a video-editing program and uploaded the video to MakeAGif. It was easier to make the GIF this way because I was able to manipulate how much time each frame would be shown and how many times i can repeat a photo to create a "flashing" effect.