resources and programs to create booktrailers to entice YA to read

1. Digital Booktrailers
Read it and see…

2. Some Great Booktrailers
Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
Homeboyz by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

3. The process….
Find a book that strikes a chord and start
thinking in movies.
Images, sound, voiceovers, subtitles…

4. Finding images
Creativecommons
Wikimedia Commons
Image Chef
Stock Footage for Free

5. Finding Music
Audacity
Freesound Project
CC Mixter
MusOpen

6. Book Covers
Should I or not?
Two camps of thought:
3. Use the cover if positively promoting the book
5. Get publisher permission. Only way to use the
cover
You have to decide….and remember – contact
publisher, not author for permission

7. Putting it all together
Two Modes, Six Ways
Mode One:
Internet
Animoto
Videospin
One True Media

8. Putting it all together
Two Modes, Six Ways
Mode Two:
Computer
Photostory
Moviemaker
Apple iMovie

9. Final Project
Some Guidelines…
Watch your image and font color
The longer the trailer, the more interest will wane….
Subtitles should not be paragraphs
Always attribute your images, music, cover, et al…
Remember: less is more

10. It’s a process….
The main ingredients for creating booktrailers:
Time, Patience, and Drive
http://naomibates.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-i-create-digital-booktrailers.html

11. Time to Make One!!! : )
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet, Act I Prologue

12. RESOURCES FOR
MOVIEMAKER
 DOCUMENTS
 http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/nisa/docs/Step-by-steps.DOC
 http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/DigitalStorytelling/How%20to
%20Create%20a%20digital%20story.htm#moviemaker
 www.mrhallsclassroom.net/handouts/moviemaker.pdf
 YOUTUBE
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JZXK68NS7gU&feature=related
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4ukjOy_FM
 TEACHERTUBE
 http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?
video_id=36072&title=video_tutorial_windows_movie_maker