book+trailer

Welcome to Reading! You will be creating a book trailer to advertise your book. This is essentially a commercial to make others want to read it--think of the movie trailers you see at the movies. You need to give the reader an idea of what the story is about and create excitement, //without giving away the ending//.

The purposes of this assignment are to 1.) demonstrate your understanding of story elements, 2.) introduce others to new books to try, and 3.) use critical literacy to show how media sells products to an audience.

I am giving you a lot of options as to how you create your trailer. Feel free to use any of the suggested projects, or create your own. Just be sure that your final project is school appropriate and meets the goal of telling others what your book is about. You will be posting your assignements on a wiki page that I have created. The wiki page will allow us to show multimedia projects created from many different websites all on a single page. **__You must sign up to join this page before you can post your projects. Sign up this week!!!!!!!!!__**

1. Final product is between 1-2 minutes 2. Tell something about the //characters, setting, and conflict.// //3.// Do not give away the ending. 4. You should create a sense of the mood of the book--is it funny, scary, intense, or exciting? 5. Anything you create must be school appropriate.
 * __Project Guidelines__**

__**Deadlines**__ 1. Friday, March 11--storyboard and script due 2. Monday-Thursday, March 14-17--in library working on project 3. Monday, March 20--project must be saved on my wiki and ready to present

__**Possible sites to use**__ [| animoto] Sample [| animoto] video

[| photostory 3] (simplest to use) This one does not require you to create an account.

[| movie maker pro]

jaycut (easier to use than movie maker)

[| xtranormal] Sample [| xtranorma] l video

freeplay free downloadable music