In this assignment, we were asked to take a home video and turn it into a GIF. My family and I tend to take more pictures than videos, so it was hard to find something for this assignment. Eventually, I found this video from about a year or two ago that was of my friend eating some Harry Potter jelly beans. For those of you who don’t know, this particular brand of jelly beans has a wide variety of flavors, from cotton candy and popcorn to rotten eggs and dirt. There’s also a Russian Roulette version of these that was popular at the time where a good and a bad flavor have the same color and you had to eat it to see if you “won”. This was the version we tried and I took the video to see both me and my friend’s reactions to the different flavors. The particular reaction I wanted to GIF was one where she ate a rotten egg jelly bean, since her reaction was the funniest in that video.

First, I trimmed down the video to around the time I wanted because GIPHY would only take a certain file amount. In GIPHY, I then trimmed the video down to exactly the time I wanted and added stickers to add style. While looking for relevant stickers, I found an egg that says “eggcellent” when it cracked and flashing text that said, “I’m just a death flavored jelly bean”. I thought the text fit her reaction perfectly, though I could have done without the flashy part of it. Nevertheless, I decided that both stickers were good for the GIF.

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