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Book
Trailers
What is a book trailer?
book trailer
A book trailer is a video advertisement for a book which employs techniques similar to those of movie trailers to promote books and encourage readers.
-- Wikipedia
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How long is a book trailer?
A book trailer needs to be short, simple, and sweet! You trailer can be from 30 seconds to two minutes long.
Make Notes About Your Book!
Keywords for note taking ideas
• Emotions
• Characters/personalities
• Voice
• Places
• Time/time period
• Symbolism
• Themes
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Project Timeline
• Get book approved
• Take notes during reading – Note check #1
– Note check #2
• Select and download images
• Create images
• Complete storyboard
• Select app for creating your trailer
• Create book trailer
Project Timeline
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If you fail to plan …
… you plan to fail!
Take notes & use your storyboard!
Important #1
• Use as few words as possible • Book trailers are fast-paced – the
viewer has no time to read lots of text
• Your book trailer should be short – 30 seconds to one and a half minutes
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Important #2
• A picture is worth a thousand words!
• Landscape / horizontal images work best if you are taking photos
Checklist #1 for Book Trailer
• Title of the book
• Author’s name
• Genre
• Main character(s)
• Problem?
• Setting
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Checklist #2 for Book Trailer
• Teaser – catch the viewer’s attention
• Ending – question that makes viewer want to know more
• Action
• Favorite part
Get to Google Image
Search on iPad #1
• To do a Google Image Search on iPad, open Google app or go to Google in browser
Google Image Search • Type
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Get to Google Image
Search on iPad #2
• Click
on Images
Creative Commons Images
• Type in OR • Go to http://search.creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons images
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Creative Commons Images
Images + Text #1
• Want to combine images and text? Create a slide, insert image, and add text
–Haiku Deck (app or online)
–Keynote app
–Press Power and Home button at same time to take a screenshot of the slide(s) and save in camera roll
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Images + Text #2
• Want to combine images and text?
• Use iPad apps
–Skitch
–Pic Collage
Apps for Creating Trailers
• Animoto
• iMovie
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Animoto on iPad
• Choose images and put into your camera roll
• Decide on the order of your images • You can add titles and captions to your
images • Select your video style • Music comes with each style • Preview and edit/change as needed • Save your video
30-second limit to your video
iMovie on iPad #1
• Video is where the videos you take with iPad are located
• Projects is where your iMovies in progress are located • Theater is where your completed iMovies are located
• You click the + at the upper right to start a new project
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iMovie on iPad #2
• After you click on the + to start your New Project you need to select either “Movie” or “Trailer”
• Trailer is a good choice for a book trailer
iMovie on iPad #3
• Select the most appropriate trailer theme for your book
• Look at the template for your theme to see how many images/videos you will need
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iMovie on iPad #4
• You may add: – Photos that you take – Videos that you take –Choose any images online that you need
and put into your camera roll • Music comes with each theme • Preview and edit/change as needed • Save your video – it will then be located in
the Theatre section
Credits
Thank you to the following websites!
• Learning in Hand: Plan a Better iMovie Trailer with These PDFs. Storyboard / planners for most of the iMovie types! http://learninginhand.com/blog/2014/8/6/plan-a-better-imovie-trailer-with-these-pdfs
• 8 frame storyboard for 30 second movie: http://www.priestmead.harrow.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/animation-storyboard.pdf
• IOS Guides for iMovie for iPad http://iosguides.net/app-guides/imovie-for-ipad/
• Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/projects-engage-middle-school-readers-beth-holland
• ReadWriteThink: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/book-report-alternative-creating-c-30914.html?tab=4
