The article, "Teen Book Video Awards" by Kimberly Maul, illustrates how successful book video trailers are at promoting literacy. At Tribeca Cinemas in New York, publishers, journalists, and filmmakers celebrated the The Book Standard Teen Book Video Awards. Among the winners were Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now, Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, and Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty.
The aim of this contest is to "promote books online and through 'movie trailers'"(1). Because adolescents are constantly using the Internet, I cant think of a better way to promote literacy. Not only can the students get a better idea of books that they could potentially read; they can view the previews of the books like the previews of movies. I think that this is a creative way for students to become engaged with reading.
One part of this article that I found interesting was when Libba Bray, the author of A Great and Terrible Beauty, says "It was so great to see her interpretation" of the book (1). I think that this would be a great way for students to analyze a book. Certainly, we all interpret books differently, and I think that it is a great way for students to express their interpretation or analysis of a book.
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Wow, that sounds like a really interesting and exciting idea to use in promoting new literature! Especially because it has gained much media attention, movie trailers would especially appeal to students, also because they are on the internet, a source they are constantly and continuously using. I think it would be a great project for students to create their own and show them to the rest of the class on independent reading books. I'm storing this idea for future use...
Jami
It was a very cool idea, and I have always been interested in the take of one artist's on another.
I thought that this would be a great way to have future students display thier interpratation of a piece, if their didn't have the language to convay the emotion that the book evoked.
I supervised in a h.s. classroom last sem. where students made video trailers for books they were reading. Some of them were amazing.
The kids had had little experience with the pc movie program they were using to create the videos but what I saw indicated to me that they were "natural' storytellers--had adopted many of the media constructs about narrative that exist all around them--this was a good assignment. I wonder about its relationship to the Alvermann articles we are reading?
I agree with Jami-- I'd love to have my future students create their own movie trailers. They could be used in place of "reading the back of the book" to find out what a book is about. Students would seem to have much more interest in this than a simple book report.
I think that having students create movie trailers would be a MUCH better alternative to doing book reports. It lets them show off their creative side while forcing them to use a beneficial medium - technology. Just look at how interested we all are about the books we saw trailers on!
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