Book Trailer – path to success
Images trump words – pictures that capture the story help
convey far more information than just words on a screen
Short video Ads – not retelling the book
Trying to “Advertise” the book so someone else would want to
check it out. Teaser information –
selling the book to other students.
Purpose is to connect the book to other kids
John Schu – Watch, Connect, Read in Illinois
Book Trailers for Readers website – by Harclerode
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate trailer on
YouTube
Take notes on key/pivotal scenes as you’re reading.
Trying to tease, but not give away major surprises/the
ending
Engage students at Higher order thinking skills
Picking out key ideas
Collaborate – working in groups, find pictures, agree on
scenes, find music, dividing work
Meaningful keyword searches – how to find the
pictures/scenes/music that relates to what you want
Authentic audience – how to target a message to a group of
peers – what will resonate with the group we’re targeting
Way to engage non-readers into the library environment, get
students interested in both reading and synthesizing information
How do you do this:
Watch samples online
http://www.Booktrailersforreaders.com/
http://www.book-trailers.net
http://booktrailersforall.com
What works, what didn’t in the samples you saw
Music, image choice, what makes the video engaging
Key passages, what to include
15-20 images, 3-5 seconds per image, plus some text, to make
a 90 second trailer
Keyword searches – Create Commons – Searching using Advanced
tab – to makesure you can re-publish the books
Pictures need to be large – 640x480 – large enough to fill
screen
Lots of photo sites –
3dtoad.com
behold.com
Flickr.com
Freefoto.com
Findicons.com
Freephotobank.com
Goolge images
Humanline.com
Ookaboo.com
Openclipart.com
Pics4learning
Picsearch
Schoolclipart
Sprixi
Veezzle
Visual Dictionary
Flickr might be blocked by Interne filter
MS Office Online has hundreds of images that are Create
Common licensed for re-use
In Google – use Advanced search sprocket to search for Usage
Rights = free to use and share
Storyboarding first, doesn’t let them just start the story –
need to plan what they’re going to do
Uses storyboard to capture the link/source for the images
rights
Save information into a folder (pictures, sources, videos
etc. so that it is all together when you get to start the video part)
Photostory or Windows Movie Maker (or iMovie for Mac) as
video site.
Photostory does a wizard driven movie making
Animoto (paid app) works well
Royalty Free music
Songsmith
Garage Band
Fine tuning – text that links the images,
Narration that tells a story
Sounds that sents the tone for the movie
Book cover sandwich – cover at both front and end
Leave the person with a definite impression
Credits at the end – who did it, music credit, photo credits
Essential learning:
How to be successful, how to persevere, how to carry
something through to completion and draft/edit/publish
QR Codes on outside of books – so people can snap a shot of
it and see the video.
Gave kids copy of the QR codes so they can put it on the
refrigerator to share with parents (put up on refrigerator)
Fun idea – have kids take pictures with the number of views,
track where people are watching the videos from
Bulletin board with QR codes, images of the books that have
trailers produced for them
YouTube
Facebook
SchoolTube
TeacherTube
Pinterest
Twitter
BookTrailersforall.com
Didn’t get parent permission because she’s not using picture
of student in the work
Session materials here: http://2013.ncceconnect.org/T208
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