We spent most of the past weekend indoors, snowed in. A wintery storm delivered snow on the roads and piled ice on top of that. It wasn’t an end-of-the-world snowpocalypse by any stretch, but the roads were slick and we decided to listen to the news and stay at home off the roads as much as possible.

Susan came up with the idea of having a movie-making competition between the four of us. She came up with this idea around 10am and declared a 2pm cut off time. After the video were done we decided to post them on Facebook and let people “vote” for their favorite by clicking “like” on the ones they liked the best. Here are the videos:

Mason’s “Snowball Fight”

Morgan’s “Ted the Spider”

Susan’s “Beauty in the Snow”

Rob’s “Snow”

Everybody came up with their own movie ideas. Mason and Morgan shot their entries with their phones and edited them using iMovie. Susan shot hers with her camera, and edited it with Windows Movie Maker. I shot mine with my Flipcam and edited it with Sony Vegas.

In the end the contest was too close to call so we declared a four-way tie for first place. I guess the next time it snows we will have to make more movies!

PS: My friend Bruce made the following video, which we all loved!