This snow globe effect is a fun way to teach transparency, animation, and layering with green screen. Students can add a still image, animation, pre-recorded or live video to their globe. I was inspired by the Green Screen Maker Space Book by Todd Burleson (lesson 6). I downloaded the image suggested and began trying to figure out a way to turn the project into a video with a layer of snow. I go through all the steps in this app smash in the tutorial below or here.
This multimedia packaged lesson has everything you need to lead your students through a snow globe lesson and photo booth experience
Snow Globe Tutorial from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.
My app smash journey:
1. Modified snow globe with table and drop shadow using superimpose app
2. Imported image into ColorLake app and recorded snow effect
3. Imported still image into Green Screen App by Do Ink and masked out the globe interior
4. Imported the colorlake video of snowing below the masked image in the green screen app
5. Exported the video to flatten the effect. Looks like snow only inside the snow globe.
6. Make the video semi-transparent inside the globe with the oval tool set at 25%
7. Made an image of plain white for the bottom layer in GS app to create a background
8. Use the middle layer to add your subject (snowman art with erased background)
9. STILL IMAGE: record a video to show snow animation or take a still image with snow
10. Draw an animation in DoInk Animation app, export as video or save to do ink shared folder
11. Add live or pre-recorded video using green screen
Grab my resources and get started:
Download my video below and import it into the top layer of the Green Screen App by Do Ink. Use the mask tool to make the center of the globe semi-transparent (see step 6 above). Then download my white image here. Import this into the bottom layer. Now you're ready to add a still, animation, or live video to the center layer.
| OR better yet download the prepared green screen file while on your iPad and open it in the GS app by Do Ink. It's all ready for you to add the subject on the middle layer. | 
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Open the file on an iPad. Click and hold, use the share button, choose green screen app.
Student results:
 | The Do Ink Animation app allows you to share your drawings to a Do Ink shared folder that you can pull up in the Green Screen app. This means you can keep the animations at full quality and retain transparency. Take a look at how a rotoscope animation looks inside the snow globe. |
Creativity Prompts: (to make this a lesson)
See this post from Terri Eichholz prompting students to consider what it would be like if you lived inside a snowglobe (as seen in the short film, Bumbleville.) See this post too.
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