Creating a Dynamic Book Trailer
You will read a book that interests you and make it come alive for an audience by creating a book trailer for the book. You should ACTIVELY read by journaling and recording information about emotions, character personalities, places, a hook, etc. How do you see the story playing out in your mind? What does the 'soundtrack' sound like? Below, you will find links to several resources for this project, as well as image and music sites to create your book trailer using Animoto.
**link to powerpoint
**link to rubric
**link to Animoto instructions
**link to powerpoint
**link to rubric
**link to Animoto instructions
Image sites
Wikimedia Commons is a database of over 15 million freely usable media files, including pictures, images, videos, and sounds.
The Library of Congress American Memory site provides free and open access to images, printer, and maps that highlight the American experience.
Professional photographer David Niblack has created Imagebase, which features images that have been released for free reuse and redistribution.
This Copyright-Friendly wiki contains many links to image and sound web pages, blogs, and wikis.
Publicdomainimage.com contains royalty free stock photos, copyright friendly free images. All pictures on this site are explicitly placed in the public domain and are free for any personal or commercial use.
Cepolina is a free photo archive about travel and nature.
Stockvault.com contains over 36,000 free pictures.
Openphoto.net
You can search for images on Google Images, but click on Advanced Image Search and scroll down to the section labeled 'usage rights.' Select 'free to use or share' from the drop-down menu.
Picsforlearning.com contains copyright-friendly images for education
The Library of Congress American Memory site provides free and open access to images, printer, and maps that highlight the American experience.
Professional photographer David Niblack has created Imagebase, which features images that have been released for free reuse and redistribution.
This Copyright-Friendly wiki contains many links to image and sound web pages, blogs, and wikis.
Publicdomainimage.com contains royalty free stock photos, copyright friendly free images. All pictures on this site are explicitly placed in the public domain and are free for any personal or commercial use.
Cepolina is a free photo archive about travel and nature.
Stockvault.com contains over 36,000 free pictures.
Openphoto.net
You can search for images on Google Images, but click on Advanced Image Search and scroll down to the section labeled 'usage rights.' Select 'free to use or share' from the drop-down menu.
Picsforlearning.com contains copyright-friendly images for education
Music sites
Wikimedia Commons is a database of over 15 million freely usable media files, including pictures, images, videos, and sounds.
This Copyright-Friendly wiki contains many links to image and sound web pages, blogs, and wikis.
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, mash-up, sample, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Partners in Rhyme contains royalty-free music and sound effects.
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com offers a diverse set of free royalty free music clips that can be used, without limitation, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit projects, free of charge.
A1 Free Sound Effects has more than 890 sound effects available, divided in helpful categories, and exportable in mp3 format.
This Copyright-Friendly wiki contains many links to image and sound web pages, blogs, and wikis.
ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, mash-up, sample, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Partners in Rhyme contains royalty-free music and sound effects.
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com offers a diverse set of free royalty free music clips that can be used, without limitation, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit projects, free of charge.
A1 Free Sound Effects has more than 890 sound effects available, divided in helpful categories, and exportable in mp3 format.