Book Trailer

I didn't realize how much effort would have to go into making the book trailer. When I started on the project I figured that if you read a summary of the book then you could create a trailer, which is true, but the trailer would not be a very good one. I found that in order to make a real effective trailer you must completely understand the material so that you can relay the feeling of the book to your target audience. Even the music that you select for your trailer should convey the mood of they book that you can only get by reading it. This type of project also allows student to not only interact with the text but to also demonstrate their creativity. I think this would be a good project to assign at the end of a book as a type of culminating project, and I would most definitely assign this as a group project, because team members would have to work together and compromise when creating the project.