Sunday, 15 May 2011

Digital book trailers – Tara Russell Ethridge

See ‘Presentation Zen’ Garr Reynolds – alternative to powerpoint – image based linear


Essential ingredients for good trailers
- keep it simple
- capture the essence
- don’t give away the ending (end with a question to grab)
- choose photos that make you think, nothing obvious, think bigger and deeper
- keep the flow of emotion
- attribution share the cc love


Books that lend themselves best to book trailers are social realism.
(use for elementary – comp fight (flickr search, cc) and safesearch)
school needs common agreement for citation for images – for US I like the kids to do full MLA format - if someone has taken time to take and post photo then they can spend 2 mins inputting into noodlebib

Only use 8 images max – students plan before what should look like (storyboard)

use free tool, with music, photo peach – no account needed, slideshow
music select (part of tool) at end to avoid distraction
people can even make comments – this is great!


@bookchica’s wiki for book trailers
See also @mrshureads “Watch Connect Read”

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