Book+Trailers

=Book Reviews= =Book Trailers= == Promote your book is with a book trailer. Book trailers is a video advertisement for a novel, as they are designed to build interest in and to encourage people to read a selected book. Book trailers can be acted out, full production trailers, flash videos, animation or simple still photos set to music with text conveying the story. Web sites such as TeacherTube, YouTube, and most recently on library Web pages are hooking readers with featured book trailers.

Successful book trailers capture the essence of the plot and characters through carefully selected visuals and audio. The trailers strike emotional chords, convey the theme, and leave viewers anticipating and eager to read the book.The possibilities for the contents of a video booktalk are limited only to the creator’s imagination.

Exemplars
Watch several exemplars of book trailers:
 * Movie Trailers at []
 * Book Trailer Examples
 * Book Trailers - A wiki of book trailers created by Joyce Valenza
 * Hunger Games Book Trailer - YouTube
 * Libertad - Animoto Book Trailer created by Carlene
 * Pettus Secondary Library
 * Carlene's Delicious Links

**Process Resources**

 * Creating Book Trailers - Slideshare presentation from Naomi Bates

Planning Resources
Storyboard your ideas. As a book trailer is only one-three minutes, planning carefully about the length of time, the chosen images and video, and accompanying voice is essential.
 * Create a Book Trailer Lesson
 * Movie/Book Trailer Analysis Worksheet
 * Book Trailer Planning Template
 * Storyboard Videos
 * Book Trailer Storyboard Template
 * Book Trailer Rubric

Book trailers can be created using various technology tool such as:
 * [|Windows Movie Maker]
 * [|Photo Story 3]
 * [|iMovie]
 * [|Voice Thread].
 * [|Flickr]
 * [|Glogster]
 * [|Animoto]
 * [|One True Media]

The book trailers can then be uploaded to:
 * [|Slideshare]
 * Youtube

Technology Tutorials

 * Technology Tools
 * [|Making Book Trailers with PhotoStory 3]
 * [|Make a Book Trailer Free]