A Film and Its Sounds

Rosa, Ben and Amir had a short film about a toy car in a garden. It had no sound. They wanted to make the sounds as people watched.

First, all three made a bicycle sound at the same time. No one made the rain sound.

They tried again. Each person had a different job. Ben made rain sounds. Rosa made car sounds. Amir made the other sounds.

But Amir needed two hands for thunder, the loud sound in the sky when it rains. He could not make the garden door sound at the same time.

They needed a new plan. They watched the film slowly. Rosa wrote down when to make each sound. The rain stopped before the garden door closed, so Ben could make that sound too.

At the show, the sounds came at the right times. People liked them.

Amir made the thunder with a tray, a flat thing for carrying cups and plates. But they needed more than things. They needed a plan.