Where iMovie and History Meet

When my mom told me that my brother and I had to do a history project, I immediately groaned. Great, another report to write. Not that I dislike writing reports--there is, after all, something delightful about collecting bits of information from here and there and everywhere and organizing them into one long thought--but they can get to be boring, and I had a lot of other papers to write.

This, however, was no ordinary assignment. Mom handed me a long list of possible activities, everything from cooking a Colonial meal to delivering a famous speech. My eye immediately lit on one in particular. "Act out a scene from history."

It didn't take long to convince my techie brother to pull out imovie and we set to work. We chose General Braddock's Defeat. He was General Braddock and Colonel Washington. I was Random Indian, Random British Soldier, and Narrator. For narration, we read aloud from the history book, and in the background we played Lord of the Rings soundtrack.

We had a ton of fun making it. Our little sister especially loved the part where she got to run up and stick the arrow under General Braddock's arm. In all, I think it turned out pretty well--corny as it was. We certainly had a lot of laughs.

Job 8:21 "He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy."










Do you make movies with your siblings and/or friends? What's the most fun project you've ever been assigned?