Book+Trailers

From: Lynda, Parade: [|www.insideadog.com.au] Click on Teachers tab for Book Trailers - samples, how-to-create-a-book-trailer guides.
From: Claire at Salesian College Sunbury - This is an example of a book trailer that I've put together. They're very simple (created using Power Point) but very effective ways of advertising the books. I've also found some great examples of book trailers just on YouTube put together by fans. media type="youtube" key="FEvximLMzkk" height="364" width="445"

From: Tricia at OLMC - Not being very creative, I have not yet started by trailers. I am however, impressed by the idea I saw in Connections of the One Minute Critic. One minute very basic filmed reviews of books - students would enjoy making and could also be used in class to promote different titles [] There are many titles - including films on the site.

I would also like to recommend the performances given at Reading Matters. These are probably well known to Book Talker participants, but I think students would enjoy the task of acting out a book review. Two actors presented Ginger Snaps by Cathy Cassidy. In three scenes, they first introduced the characters, using text from the book to describe themselves. The next scene set out the types of issues the book deals with and the final scence showed the aftermath of an integral scene from the book. Without giving away the whole plot, the audience gained a feeling about the story with an incentive to read on and find out what happens.

From: Lynda S, Parade - I know the CLANS Techs are also looking into Book Trailers, so hopefully we can all pool our knowledge... Tina S., Salesian, really got us inspired in our first meeting and there are other schools out there doing great things.