I laid out my idea for a vintage educational video along with a script in this post, and only had to change a few little mistakes I made before recording the real thing.  My son John played the roll of “Johnny” and did a great job!  At 6 he is a natural actor already and loved playing along with me.

We recorded our audio in Garageband and edited out our mistakes (my mistakes actually, John didn’t make any).  I moved the audio to iMovie and added the images and video clips.  I wanted to add video effects to make it look like old, black and white video but iMovie doesn’t let the effects apply to still images.  I completed the video, exported it out, then started a new project and imported it in so it would all be “video”.  Finally I was able to apply the filters I wanted to make it look old.  Here is the final product: