Book Trailers: Home

The Bar Code Tattoo book trailer

Here is a book trailer for the book Dairy Queen.

A book trailer about The Hunger Games.

A book trailer is a short multimedia clip used to promote a book.  The clip can contain video, images, text, music, sound, and narration.  It should pull the audience into the book and makes them want to read it.

1. Choose a book
2. Read the book
3. Analyze the book - determine what was good, unique, interesting, etc. 
4. Write a first draft - impressions, the feeling, important points
5. Create a storyboard 
6. Plan effects (transitions, sound, music, etc.)
7. Review the plan - with teachers, other students...
8. Obtain resources (pictures, sounds, music, etc.)
9. Create the trailer