Storytelling with GIFs

Facilitate simple visual social sharing.

This project will build upon prototypes and research conducted in the Fall 2019 Studio class, but participation is open to any interested student. As the open-web continues to die, storytellers need tools that help them create sharable artifacts suitable for a variety of social networks and platforms. Brevity and portability are of the utmost importance. This project is concerned with designing a tool that allows novice storytellers to create simple 5 frame (5 images) GIFS that when combined with text for the post, are sharable on a variety of platforms and social networks. This iteration of the project will be focused on UX and UI design and building a sustainable application for the creation of visual stories saved in the GIF file format.

Faculty and Staff Leads

Zach Wise

Professor, Journalism

Emmy winning interactive producer & Associate Professor @NorthwesternU, @KnightLab. Formerly of The New York Times. Creator of TimelineJS & StoryMapJS

Results

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Exploring and Understanding the Storytelling Potential of GIFs How GIFs are used across different platforms

by Justine Banbury , Emily Chaiet , Naeem Patel , Idrees Kamal

From memes to animated data visualizations, GIFs have become a staple in the way we communicate digitally to express ideas, feelings, and concepts. GIFs are a self-contained media format consisting of several single-frame images; it’s a format that is more compact and shareable than video. Additionally, GIFs are platform-agnostic; this means that they are not locked into any one platform’s ecosystem -- like Instagram or Snapchat stories -- to dictate how they are shared. This studio...

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Project Details

2019 Fall
Storytelling with GIFs

Description

As the open-web continues to die, storytellers need tools that help them create sharable artifacts suitable for a variety of social networks and platforms. Brevity and portability are of the utmost importance. This project is concerned with designing a tool that allows novice storytellers to create simple 5 frame (5 images) single GIF that is sharable on a variety of platforms and social networks.

Outcome

Build a tool that helps storytellers create very simple visual stories as a single GIF file that are sharable on a variety of platforms (Instagram, Snap, Twitter, Facebook etc).

Students

Emily Chaiet

Idrees Kamal

Naeem Patel

Justine Banbury

2020 Winter
Storytelling with GIFs

Description

Outcome

Build a tool that helps storytellers create very simple visual stories as a single GIF file that are sharable on a variety of platforms (Instagram, Snap, Twitter, Facebook etc).

Faculty and Staff Leads

Zach Wise

Professor, Journalism

Results

Exploring and Understanding the Storytelling Potential of GIFs How GIFs are used across different platforms

Project Details

2019 FallStorytelling with GIFs

Description

Outcome

Students

Emily Chaiet

Idrees Kamal

Naeem Patel

Justine Banbury

2020 WinterStorytelling with GIFs

Description

Outcome

2019 Fall
Storytelling with GIFs

2020 Winter
Storytelling with GIFs