Students will learn how to create book trailers, similiar to movie trailers that one can see in a movie theater or at the beginning of DVDs, using software and equipment they already have access to.
Book trailers will be created by students to demonstrate that they have read and understood a book of their choice. They will use the persuasive techniques studied in class to create a digital presentation that will persuade others to read the book they have chosen to represent.
Searching for Images, Sounds, and MusicThere are several sites that students can use to find what they need without violating copyright laws. The following list is by no means exhausting, but should be adequate for most classes.
Professional photographer David Niblack has created Imagebase (http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php), which features more than one hundred pages of images that have been released for free reuse and redistribution.
Flicker.com (http://www.flickr.com/) offers access to creative licensed photos and other images. Be sure to look at the rights release of each image before you select one.
Creative License Music Sites ccMixter (http://www.ccmixter.org/) is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Dewey music (http://deweymusic.org/) has over 1 million free public domain songs by more than 10,000 artists. Moby provides free music for film students, independent filmmakers and others who need music for nonprofit or educational uses (http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html). Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/) is another creative license music site where bands and 9 Digital Book Trailers Presentation musicians post music licensed under Creative Commons. Jewelbeat (http://www.jewelbeat.com/) offers free music tracks & free sound effects for any production - advertising, education, videos, photos, YouTube, etc. Partners in Rhymes (http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml) contains both music and sound effects. Royalty Free Music (http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-clips.html) is yet another
creative license music site.
Book trailers will be created by students to demonstrate that they have read and understood a book of their choice. They will use the persuasive techniques studied in class to create a digital presentation that will persuade others to read the book they have chosen to represent.
Searching for Images, Sounds, and MusicThere are several sites that students can use to find what they need without violating copyright laws. The following list is by no means exhausting, but should be adequate for most classes.
Creative license image sites
Wikimedia.org (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) is a database of over 6 million freely usable media files, including pictures, images, videos, and sounds.
Free Digital Photos (http://freedigitalphotos.net/) offer access to creative licensed photos and other images.
Free Digital Photos (http://freedigitalphotos.net/) offer access to creative licensed photos and other images.
Professional photographer David Niblack has created Imagebase (http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php), which features more than one hundred
pages of images that have been released for free reuse and redistribution.
Flicker.com (http://www.flickr.com/) offers access to creative licensed photos and other images. Be sure to look at the rights release of each image before you select one.
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ is a great compilation of image sites.
Other sites include
•http://www.public-domain-image.com/
•http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto
•http://www.debisty.com/Album/photos.htm l
•http://www.stockvault.net
•http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
•http://openphoto.net
•http://images.google.com
(choose "labeled for reuse")
•http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
•http://pics4learning.com
•http://photobucket.com
Creative License Music Sites
ccMixter (http://www.ccmixter.org/) is a community music site featuring remixes licensed
under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in
whatever way you want.
Dewey music (http://deweymusic.org/) has over 1 million free public domain songs by more
than 10,000 artists.
Moby provides free music for film students, independent filmmakers and others who need
music for nonprofit or educational uses (http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html).
Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/) is another creative license music site where bands and
9 Digital Book Trailers Presentation musicians post music licensed under Creative Commons.
Jewelbeat (http://www.jewelbeat.com/) offers free music tracks & free sound effects for any
production - advertising, education, videos, photos, YouTube, etc.
Partners in Rhymes (http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml) contains both music and
sound effects.
Royalty Free Music (http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free-music-clips.html) is yet another
creative license music site.
Creative License and Free Sound Effects Sites
Ljudo.com (http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it) has more than 1,200 free
sound effects which can be listened to in RealAudio or downloaded in mp3 format.
A1 Free Sound Effects (http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com.) has more than 890 sound effects
available, divided in helpful categories, and exportable in mp3 format.
More Sound Effects can also be found at http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
.
Another site that may be of use is www.freemusicplay.com