The "We create gifs from amazing obscure movies" challenge
Sept 28, 2017 10:04:23 GMT
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Post by tobias on Sept 28, 2017 10:04:23 GMT
The Internet Needs You!
I realized today, this great responsibility. This is the thing you will be able to tell your kids about later, how you saved internet culture by creating Eric Rohmer memes. Seriously, it happens way too often that great film moments get lost because noone watches the damn films and in turn there are a billion gifs from the latest Marvel release. If you dig up the hidden film treasures and stick them into a spicy gif, that's the way to get these youngsters to watch the films. And even if they won't watch them, they'll grow with the knowledge and input. This is a war we can't lose.
Rules:
1. Films must be relatively obscure. Breathless is not ok (as you will be able to find entire pages of gifs from there already), A Woman is a Woman is (or any other Godard for that matter), 400 Blows is not ok, The Sweet Skin is (or any other Truffaut I would say). No need for extreme obscurity (though it is apreciated), just something that you find goes under the radar.
2. Rules are lame!
3. See above.
4. Let them Gifs come!
How-to:
Easiest is to screencap your screen with something like OBS Studio (or if you have the file lying around just directly cut it), then apply some short cuts for correction (with Avidemux for instance) and then either directly upload it to Giphy for instance or convert it to gif yourself and then upload it (preferrably try to tag it properly so that people searching the film on the net can find it).
There is no need to rush. It would be nice to simply have some coming once in a while after you've seen a film you think deserves the extra exposure.
Note: Yes, you may also post great gifs from obscure movies that you find on the internet but this is preferably about adding new ones to the net.
I realized today, this great responsibility. This is the thing you will be able to tell your kids about later, how you saved internet culture by creating Eric Rohmer memes. Seriously, it happens way too often that great film moments get lost because noone watches the damn films and in turn there are a billion gifs from the latest Marvel release. If you dig up the hidden film treasures and stick them into a spicy gif, that's the way to get these youngsters to watch the films. And even if they won't watch them, they'll grow with the knowledge and input. This is a war we can't lose.
Rules:
1. Films must be relatively obscure. Breathless is not ok (as you will be able to find entire pages of gifs from there already), A Woman is a Woman is (or any other Godard for that matter), 400 Blows is not ok, The Sweet Skin is (or any other Truffaut I would say). No need for extreme obscurity (though it is apreciated), just something that you find goes under the radar.
2. Rules are lame!
3. See above.
4. Let them Gifs come!
How-to:
Easiest is to screencap your screen with something like OBS Studio (or if you have the file lying around just directly cut it), then apply some short cuts for correction (with Avidemux for instance) and then either directly upload it to Giphy for instance or convert it to gif yourself and then upload it (preferrably try to tag it properly so that people searching the film on the net can find it).
There is no need to rush. It would be nice to simply have some coming once in a while after you've seen a film you think deserves the extra exposure.
Note: Yes, you may also post great gifs from obscure movies that you find on the internet but this is preferably about adding new ones to the net.
