The Book Trailer Assignment

The main difference between a movie trailer and a book trailer is that a movie trailer already has visual images to work with - clips from the film. With a book trailer, the maker has to convert the written words into visual images. The trick is to convey a sense of what the book is about without giving anything away. Take a look at these Movie Trailers to get some motivation.

The Book Trailer

Your book trailer must include information that reveals your understanding of the following elements within your novel:

• characters
• plot--be very carefull not to 'give away' the climax of the novel
• setting
• theme
• tone/mood

How to Begin…

1. Storyboard your ideas out.  This is probably the most important step of the whole creating process since if it's not done properly, your whole project will be difficult.  Check out the following link for the stroyboard you are to use.  Make sure you have a ``hook`` to grab the viewers attention.
   1. Storyboard -The first thing you want to consider is how to convey the idea of your book, and get people excited about it - excited enough to want to read it!  Think about how you want your trailer to look.
2. 1. Perhaps a video compiled of still images or a mixture of stills and video....It's up to you.
   2. A musical background to add interest and emotion.
   3. What method of changing from one scene to the next do you want to employ? Do you want to fade to black? Or use some kind of manipulation that gives the impression of a page turning, or a spiraled fade?
3. Take a look at some more good movie trailers, since most people are more familiar with those. What made you want to go see the movie? Did the intensity build as the trailer progressed? Did the music quicken, or create a particular feeling?
4. Now that you have it all mostly planned out (remember that it's fine to make changes throughout the process), it's time to start using some technology to take your idea from a vision to reality.  The technology we will be using for this project is Animoto or Adobe Spark since they both offers images, text, voice and video.

Where to begin

1.  Begin planning your book trailer.  Your concept map should contain the main concepts of Theme, Setting, Characters and Plot.  Begin to plan out what you want to include in your book trailer


2. Next, either use a storyboard to begin planning your book trailer.  Remember each slide should be planned prior to design taking place.  I understand that changes will take place throughout, but try to get a good base thought out.


3. Go to either Animoto or Adobe Spark and begin designing your book trailer.  Make sure you have text, images, video and voice (others and your own) included in your book trailer.