Kathy Cothran

See the snowman melt! Below you will find links to two different melting snowman samples. The second one was done by second grade.

We created the video track by using a Sony digital video camera. It is an old one too, but a good one. It has a setting for interval recording. We set the camera to record one second of video for every minute. Then I imported the video into iMovie (the old version) and increased the speed of the track. Then I copied the track, pasted it at the end, and added the effect of playing it in reverse. iMovie 08 doesn't have this capability as far as I know. Finally, the second graders added their voice tracks! Great fun!

But, it scared the heck out of a little kindergartener and he went running away! Something about the snowman coming back to life was too much for him!

Click here to watch the movie

Click here to watch the movie

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