INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Get 2 to 3 overripe bananas that are starting to turn brown. Peel them, cut them into bite-sized pieces, then freeze them in a plastic freezer bag or container. The size of the banana pieces does not matter. This is simply to make it easier on your blender or food processor. Once the bananas have frozen, transfer them into a blender or food processor. Add 2 to 4 tablespoons (30 to 60 milliliters) of your choice of milk and a pinch of salt.  The more milk to add, the smoother the ice cream will be. Whole milk is a great choice, but you can also use non-dairy milk, such as almond or coconut. This recipe is only a base, and it will yield somewhat-banana-flavored ice cream. It is still very delicious, but you can give it more flavor with some tasty extras. For example:  For chocolate ice cream, add ¼ teaspoon of vanilla extract and 3 tablespoons (22.5 grams) of cocoa powder.  For peanut butter ice cream, add 2 to 3 tablespoons (30 to 45 grams) of peanut butter.   For cookies'n cream, add 2 tablespoons (30 grams) of coconut butter. Crush up some chocolate sandwich cookies and have them ready for later. Keep blending until the mixture takes on the texture of soft-serve ice cream. From time-to-time, you may want to open up the blender or food processor, and push down any unmixed ice cream towards the bottom with a rubber spatula. If you are making cookies'n cream ice cream, fold in the crushed chocolate sandwich cookies after you blend everything together. Transfer the mixture into a freezer-safe container, such as a Tupperware container or an ice cream container. Place it into the freezer, and leave it there for 30 minutes, or until it becomes scoop-able.

SUMMARY: Peel, cut, and freeze the bananas ahead of time. Place the ingredients into a blender or food processor. Add some extras, if desired. Blend the ingredients. Freeze the ice cream for 30 minutes.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you want to invent a sport, you’ll have to see what kind of balls, rackets or sticks, and goal-type equipment you have. Look around your own house and ask your friends too. Make sure you have enough if each player needs to use their own stick or ball.  You might find a golf ball, a baseball bat, a football helmet, and a racket. You don’t have to pick up all of the stuff, but at least make a list of what you have. If you have no sports equipment, make a sport that doesn’t need any. Use just your body and your environment. Adapt running, hand-to-hand combat, or exercise into a sport. Use non-sports equipment for the game. Look for buckets, brooms, rocks, sticks, chairs, boxes, blankets, or any other household items to somehow use for a sport. Come up with how players score in the game. Have them throw something the farthest, or hit a ball the most times. Make sure you choose if they must reach a certain score, or if whoever has the best score or performance wins.  For example, you might have to score the most points to win. You might score by using the racket to hit the golf ball into the helmet from different distances away. The scoring doesn't have to be points. It could be accomplishing a task first, performing a feat best, or doing something the most times. You don’t have to make totally new rules for your game, just use the rules of other games you know. Make sure the rules tell players what they have to do and what they are not allowed to do. Combine rules from different sports so they fit together.  For example, most sports have boundary lines that players must stay within. If you cross a boundary line, the other player or team takes control of the game. Make rules about players touching each other. Football allows players to make physical contact with regulations about what's acceptable. Yet, baseball has very little contact. Include rules about how to use the equipment, such as kicking the ball in soccer, throwing and catching the ball in football, or tagging the base in baseball. Decide if your game is played one-on-one or with teams, or if it works with either. If there has to be an exact number, make sure you know how many. If the game works with different numbers of players, that will give you more freedom. For example, tennis only works with two players or four players, but basketball works with two to ten or more players. Make sure you have enough space to play. Stay away from buildings and anything else that might get in the way. You’ll need room to run around for most sports. Ask your parents before you go away from your house. If you need any type of boundaries or starting lines, use trees or the edge of the grass. If you have cones or rope, use that to set up lines, too.

SUMMARY: Gather up some sports equipment. Describe how the scoring works. Come up with a set rules for your game. Set a number of players who can play. Find an open place to play the sport in.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Click File in the menu bar, and select New Project... from the drop-down menu. In the setup window that appears, enter a name for your project. The aspect ratio refers to the width-to-height ratio of your movie, and will affect how it will appear on screens and monitors.   Standard (4:3) is almost square, and is the ratio used in standard-definition TVs. A video in 4:3 will fill the screen of those TVs. On an HDTV or widescreen monitor, there will be black bars on either side of the picture so that it still looks correct. This is a good choice for standard TVs, and for iPad or iPhone playback.  Widescreen (16:9) is much wider than it is tall, and is suitable for widescreen monitors and HDTV televisions. When viewed on a standard-definition monitor or TV, there will be black bars on the top and bottom so that it displays correctly. Chose one of the three options from the menu. Use the same frame rate that you used when you recorded your video you'll be using in your project.   30 fps - NTSC is the frame rate  you will use if using a camera sold in North America, South America, Japan, and South Korea.  25 fps - PAL is the frame rate you will see in cameras sold in Europe, Hong Kong, and most other countries.  24 fps - Cinema is the setting you will use if you set your camera (either an NTSC or PAL camera) to record in Cinema mode. You can set a basic template for your movie using Themes. Click on each thumbnail, and in the preview area to the right, you'll see a sample video of how that theme looks in use. Select “Automatically add transitions and titles" if you want iMovie to insert standard cross-dissolve transitions with occasional theme-styled transitions between the clips in your project. If you don’t choose this option, you can still add theme-styled transitions to your project manually. This will finalize your choices, and take you back to the main iMovie window's Project browser, where you can begin to build your project:

SUMMARY:
Launch iMovie. Name your project. Assign an aspect ratio. Set your frame rate. Set your project theme. Click Create.