Resources for Creating Book Trailers Creating Book Trailers A trailer for The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce. The trailer was created by Jarod Lambert and his son Charles (age 6). What are book trailers? Chance and Lesesne (2012) define a book trailer as "a visual representation of a book. Commercial conceptualizations of video book trailers are valid and have their place as they serve a valid and specific function: to sell specific books. Given the varying purposes assigned to book trailers, we will focus on the methodology of creating trailers. What about using book trailers instructionally? Talk of book trailers tends toward publisher, teacher, and librarian creation of trailers as a means of advertising books to various audiences. Sample Book Trailers From Carol Johnson at Buckalew Elementary Trailers saved as PDFs from PowerPoint files. From Third Grade Students at Coulson Tough Elementary (K-6) The Spider and The Fly by Tony DiTerlizzi Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendack References
21st Century Book Talks & Trailers Welcome to ThingLink! This quick tutorial will show you how to create wonderfully engaging experiences with ThingLink. Create Simply click the Create button and select the type of project you want to create. Upload Select a file from your device to be your base image or video. Edit Watch this short video to learn about tag types, basic customization options and the simple publishing process - a perfect intro to editing your thinglinks! Share When you’re ready to share your thinglink, click the blue Share button in the top right corner of the page. Track Statistics help you understand how many people have seen your content, and what part was most engaging. 21st Century Book Talks & Trailers hneltner 8 years ago 19531 views Do you want to create similar content? Start now Learn more Inspiration from ThingLink users Explore more The Journey to Mt. Rita Niblack Atoms Carrie The Who's Who of Sing Virgin Media Step by step at Marcoule Advent im Weinviertel Niederösterreich-Werbung GmbH Sub Sahara Africa Maureen Nolan
5 Free Tools for Creating Book Trailer Videos The traditional book report that asks students to critique the books that they read is a staple of many classrooms. If you would like to add a new element to book reports try having students add visual and audio components to book reports by having students create book trailers. Book trailers are short videos designed to spark a viewer's interest in a book. A great place to find examples of book trailers is Book Trailers for Readers. Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, music, video clips, and text. Stupeflix is a service that allows user to quickly and easily create video montages using their favorite images and audio clips. Shwup is a service similar to Animoto and Stupeflix for creating videos based on your images and audio files. Flixtime is a video creation service that is quite similar to Animoto and Stupeflix. Masher is a free tool for creating video mash-ups.
The Big Tease: Trailers are a terrific way to hook kids on books Once upon a time, publishers promoted books with jacket blurbs, bookmarks, and author tours. Then six years ago, YouTube changed the rules of the game. Today publishers are spending as much as $20,000 a pop to create book trailers—30- to 90-second teasers, à la movie trailers, designed to generate virtual and word-of-mouth buzz and, of course, to sell titles. “Trailers are definitely a staple in our marketing,” says Diane Naughton, HarperCollins’s vice president of marketing. “Video is something kids have almost come to expect.” Indeed. The trick: “Pure enthusiasm does not make good video,” says best-selling kids’ book author and former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jon Scieszka. So what makes a great trailer? The best trailers typically last just a minute or so. Humor is another secret weapon. A little film, TV, and musical experience can also go a long way. Trailers target many audiences. Homegrown video makers face challenges. Magnificent Seven ing trailers…
Junior Library Guild Launches Book Trailer Contest for Teens High school students in the United States and Canada can put their creative skills to the test in a big way. School Library Journal’s sister company, Junior Library Guild (JLG), is launching a Book Trailer contest, kicking off February 22. Students in ninth through 12th grade and who are 13 or older can participate by producing a book trailer for one of JLG’s fall 2015 high school book selections. The top five trailers will be selected by JLG and then voted on by librarians to choose the first, second, and third place winners. Video book trailers should be no more than two minutes long and credit all music and image sources as well as the author of the book. How to Enter: Student producers will have the chance of winning iTunes gift cards and the affiliated school or public library will garner free JLG categories. Junior Library Guild (JLG) is a collection development service that helps school and public libraries acquire the best new children’s and young adult books.
Getting I.T. Right @ Canyon Creek: 2011 Author, Phil Bildner paid a second visit to Canyon Creek Elementary this week but this time the visit was virtual. Students in Ms. Shannon's class had the delightful opportunity to Skype with the author. Phil Bildner has written many children's award winning books along with the New York Times best-selling Sluggers! series. He is collaborating with students at Canyon Creek on book trailers for two of his newest books. The following are comments made by some of the students involved in the project. "It was very cool and I look forward to our second conference. "I really liked it a lot. "It went well, I think. "I think the Skype was fun and it helped us get better understanding of what to do in our trailers." "We covered a lot of things and prepared ourselves for the final productions." "I thought that the Skype was really interesting and cool and it gave us a way to talk to Phil Bildner and really get an idea of what we are doing!
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