4 George - Playing in Public

Remember those days when the snow first fell and the streets froze and you just couldn't wait to get outside and play?

This short video, commissioned (http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/2587) by George Couros (https://twitter.com/gcouros), features children playing in the snow: building snowmen, sliding on the frozen river covering the pavement and throwing snowballs from behind snow forts. I was inspired by Malyn Mawby's (https://twitter.com/malynmawby) commissioned video (http://10minutes-tbdeu.posterous.com/4-playing-in-public), the recent first snow that we experienced this season and my desire to build a snowman with my nephew.

The sketch is my own. I took pictures of it at various intervals during its creation. I have to work on creating consistent level and squared photos, but editting with a simple photo editor cleaned up the weird products of photography, even if it took hours to do so.

I used Windows Movie Maker to create the video. The audio was clipped from Play in the Snow (http://www.archive.org/details/PlayInTheSno), a 1945 education film in the public domain and presented by Encyclopedia Britannica Films on Prelinger Archives (http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger). I used RealPlayer to trim and convert the film's video into MP3 audio, so I could use it in my video.

The sound is a bit crude and out of step, but it carries the spirit of kids enjoying the Winter season.

Enjoy.

For more information on this video, refer to my post (http://shawnurban.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/4-playing-in-public/) of the same name.

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