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May 30, 2011
First Bookcast Book Trailer - Please Ignore Vera Dietz
This is my first bookcast book trailer. I think it came out pretty well.
The video quality degraded a lot when I exported it from iMovie to Quicktime so I could upload it to YouTube. And I'm not thrilled with the audio, but I spent all day on the darn thing and I wasn't willing to spend any more time fussing with the soundtrack in GarageBand.
I have some ideas for ways to create my next bookcastfirst bookcast more easily (and more betterer). But in the meantime, I'm pleased with my first effort. I think the imagery works and the soundtrack, in spite of its deficiencies, is more or less what I had in mind. And I worked hard on it, so it feels good to see the finished product!
Wow! Does the imagery ever work!!! A glimpse of the lurker beyond as the faces kiss and then dissolve into skeletons, the Pagoda, the fire -- you've told just enough of the story here pictures and eerie music to leave us wanting more.
You've created a compelling book trailer, Blakely. Note "book trailer." I don't think it's a bookcast. A bookcast doesn't even hint at the story of the book -- it's the story of your relationship to the book -- something that the book brings out in you. There are lots of exemplars here -- http://bookhenge2011.wikispaces.com/Bookcasting Probably, "A Hard Choice" by the middle schooler will give you a real insight since practically everyone knows Frost's poem that inspired it.
Wow! Does the imagery ever work!!! A glimpse of the lurker beyond as the faces kiss and then dissolve into skeletons, the Pagoda, the fire -- you've told just enough of the story here pictures and eerie music to leave us wanting more.
ReplyDeleteYou've created a compelling book trailer, Blakely. Note "book trailer." I don't think it's a bookcast. A bookcast doesn't even hint at the story of the book -- it's the story of your relationship to the book -- something that the book brings out in you. There are lots of exemplars here -- http://bookhenge2011.wikispaces.com/Bookcasting Probably, "A Hard Choice" by the middle schooler will give you a real insight since practically everyone knows Frost's poem that inspired it.
Hope this helps! Thanks for so boldly going . . .