Digital Book Trailers

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Digital Book Trailers

• Region 10
• 16th Annual Technology Planning Conference

Vicky Selznick Lowery Freshman Center Allen ISD
Robin Screen Ford Middle School Allen ISD
May 11, 2010
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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer

• Select your book!
• 2. Create a folder on your desktop or in your
  flash drive to save all your components (image
  and audio files, etc.)

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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer

• Select appropriate/relevant images
• Book cover (we recommend any of the following
  sites for images)
• www.titlewave.com (Follett)
• www.mackin.com
• www.amazon.com
• www.barnesandnoble.com

Develop a game plan that empowers your vision
how will you engage your viewers with the
storyline?
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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer

1. Images (continued)

• A pictures worth a thousand words.
• Use Creative Commons for your pictures you need
  to give credit through attributions.
• www.creativecommons.org
• (Note You do not need to make an account!)
• Click on the Find option
• I want something that I can(unclick use for
  commercial purposes)

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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer
3. Images (continued)

• Begin your search for pictures.
• Click on Flickr (other image-friendly sites are
  commons.wikimedia and google images however, the
  attributions are not as obvious)
• Search for image
• Save picture to your folder (change the file name
  to something simpler and more recognizable save
  as jpg format)

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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer
3. Images (continued)

• After saving picture, scroll down on the right
  side of the screen until you come to some rights
  reserved click on it to check if you can use
  the image
• In the section under the following conditions
  right click and copy the attribution (everything
  in the attribute this work box)
• Paste the attribution into your attribution ppt
  slide (delete nonessential text shown see next
  slide in red for the actual book trailer credits
  at the end of the movie

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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer
3. Images (continued)
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Note The section that is copied and pasted into
your credits is actually the URL of the image.
It is necessary to check for this attribution in
order to know what rights you have in regards to
the image use.
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Steps to Build Your Book Trailer
4. Audio files

• Once you have collected your images, it is time
  to collect audio
• We recommend jamendo (in Creative Commons),
  ccMixter.org and freesound.org
• Choose music genre from the tag cloud on the
  right side of the screen or search for related
  subject
• Preview choices when you decide on one, click on
  it and check your rights on this album and if
  its okay to use, copy and paste the link to this
  album along with the artists name into your
  attribution slide

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Simple Rules of Creating Book Trailers.

• Keep it SIMPLE Not a lot of text!!
• Watch your images!! Look at how text would be
  seen ON the slide (i.e. too many colors on an
  image, contrast, font size and type)
• Keep the transitions and effects TO A MINIMUM
  dont keep switchingno more than 2-3 throughout
  the trailer is usually enough!!
• Watch television commercialslearn from the
  experts!!

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Sources for Making the Book Trailers

• www.animoto.com
• Turn your photos videos into pure amazing.
• Animoto automatically produces beautifully
  orchestrated, completely unique video pieces
  from your photos, video clips and music. Fast,
  free and shockingly easy.

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Sources for Making the Book Trailers

• Windows Microsoft
• MovieMaker
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemake
  r/default.mspx
• Information from Microsoft about downloads,
  updates, FAQs and tutorials on how to get started

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• DONT FORGET TO SAVE OFTEN!!!!
• (especially if youre using Windows XP)

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Sources for Making the Book Trailers

• Windows Microsoft
• Photo Story 3
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalph
  otography/photostory/tips/create.mspx
• http//www.jakesonline.org/photostory.pdf
• http//www.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.
  php?video_id75267

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Photo Story 3 Tutorial from TeacherTube
http//www.teachertube. com/members/viewVideo.php
?video_id75267
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Book Trailer Sites and Examples
Our Examples
Other Examples
Naomis Examples
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Our Book Trailer Examples
http//www.allenisd.org/2023208872448150/blank/bro
wse.asp?A383BMDRN2000BCOB0C65541
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Naomis Book Trailer Examples
http//www.nisdtx.org/120820731141528687/blank/bro
wse.asp?A383BMDRN2000BCOB0C70538
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Other Book Trailer Examples

• http//www.schooltube.com/videosearch?qbooktrail
  erssearch-submitSearch
• Free login great site for teachers and students
  to post and share work all material is screened
  for appropriate content by site reviewers
• http//www.teachertube.com/
• Free login important to create an account to
  get rid of ads student work may be posted and
  shared
• http//www.homepages.dsu.edu/mgeary/booktrailers/d
  efault.htm
• http//www.homepages.dsu.edu/mgeary/booktrailers/l
  ate_elementary.htm
• http//www.homepages.dsu.edu/mgeary/booktrailers/a
  dolescent.htm
• Samples categorized by levels for grade,
  interest, as shown above
• http//allenreads.wikispaces.com/
• Our wiki created for the 2009-2010 Allen
  community ALLen Reads reading program

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Credits and Acknowledgments

• Sections of this presentation were used from the
  following source with permission and blessings.
  We couldnt have done it as easily without you!!!
• Naomi Bates, Librarian, Northwest High School,
  Northwest ISD, Texas
• Region 10 Workshop Amping Up Your Booktalk
  Using 21st Century Tools for Libraries Nov. 2009

• http//www.nisdtx.org/120820731141528687/site/defa
  ult.asp (Visit Naomis site for much more!!!)