It’s quite amazing how I made a GIF. I’ve always seen on facebook and other social media websites of people making GIF and I always thought like when will I be able to make one. I didn’t know making a GIF would be that hard. All I did was to follow the steps from this link: http://ds106.us/docs/Creating_Animated_GIFs_with_MPEG_Streamclip_and_GIMP

It isn’t that bad. I downloaded MPEG Streamclip and GIMP. I downloaded the first episode of The Wire from the media hub and followed the steps of what Professor Groom showed us which was basically going to the video and clicking the download icon. Then in the link, I went and followed the steps. I went to the scenes and clicked in the beginning of those scenes “Select in” and “select out” at the end of the scenes that I wanted to make my GIF. Then after that, I click “Trim”. I then click “Export to other formats”. From there, I saved it in a file and went to the program GIMP.

At the program GIMP, I clicked “File” then “Open as layers” and then I selected all of the images.  When I added text, on the other side I merged them with the pictures but before that I made a duplicate of the text so I can merge it with the pictures. After that, I clicked “Export as” and then I put it as a “.gif” post.  I as well put it as an animation post. That’s how I made it as a GIF. So I chose the first episode of season 1 of The Wire.  A lot of people did the other episodes. I felt like episode 1 was a better choice and that’s my opinion.  Plus so far no one did it. Here are my reasons below:

In this GIF, it shows Gant testifying that D’Angelo is indeed guilty for his crimes that he did which was murdering someone. I liked this scene because this showed particularly that we all know that there are more than 1 season of The Wire and D’Angelo wouldn’t go to jail yet. Something indeed was going to happen.

In this GIF, this is where The Wire begins. Nakeesha Lyles changes the story by saying the man (D’Angelo Barksdale) who murdered the man isn’t there in court. That changed the whole story and what I believe started and made this TV show The Wire interesting.

This scene to me particularly is quite interesting to me because I never seen McNulty apologize before. I mean of course it’s the big boss he’s apologizing too but I mean watching all the other episodes, I never seen him like this before in this particular scene. But afterwards, he goes and investigates this case.

This scene shows that even though D’Angelo is free, he can’t keep talking stuff that can get him in jail. Everyone knows he killed that man. He’s lucky that his buddy told him not to talk because who knows, the car could have been wire taped and it would have caught him confessing to the murder.

In this specific scene, I thought this made the TV series more series when they showed the witness that testified against D’Angelo dead. When I saw D’Angelo seeing Gant dead, he just walks away. To me, that looks guiltiness right there. I didn’t expect Gant to be dead. When it shows he got shot in the head, the show gotten better because like I said before, this is not a regular tv cop show about winning or losing, it’s more about each sides.