Creating Book Trailers Offline or Online – Apps to create with!

Images and Sounds – Websites and Attribution

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For this workshop, save to the P: drive under Book talks folder

Creativecommons

If no attribution is listed then use the web address associated with photo for your credits. Save all attributions to a Word document so that you have them later.

Save Picture on P: drive in Book talks folder

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Simple Rules of Creating Booktrailers…. Keep it SIMPLE – Not a lot of text!! Keep it SIMPLE – Not a lot of text!! Watch your images!! Look at how text would be seen ON the slide (ie too many colors on an image) Watch your images!! Look at how text would be seen ON the slide (ie too many colors on an image) Keep the transitions and effects TO A MINIMUM – don’t keep switching…2-3 throughout the trailer is good!! Keep the transitions and effects TO A MINIMUM – don’t keep switching…2-3 throughout the trailer is good!! Watch television commercials…learn from the experts!! Watch television commercials…learn from the experts!!

Using Windows Microsoft MovieMaker

Import pictures from saved folder

DON’T FORGET TO SAVE OFTEN!!!! (especially if you’re using Windows XP)

Note: Whatever you put on the right side will be larger and the left side is smaller.

Using Animoto.com