This document provides an agenda and instructions for a virtual class on creating book trailers as a class project. It discusses how different types of texts are more or less suited to video adaptations. It shares examples of book trailers and readings on adapting books to video form. It outlines the planning and storyboarding process needed to create a coherent book trailer video project. Students are asked to choose a text and group members by the next class.

1. Week 13: 6 April 2011 WRA 110.742

2. Today's Agenda ICYDK Readings When media collide Introducing Project #5 Sample book trailers More readings Planning, Scripting, Storyboarding Wrap-up: Choosing texts, groups, etc.

3. In Case You Didn't Know I'm out of town attending a conference in Atlanta right now. So that's why we're having a virtual class.

4. Let's start with some readings... Before you go any further, please read the following: Carr, "The Fall and Rise of Media" (BTW 2010) The Onion, "Area Eccentric Reads Entire Book" (BTW 2009)

5. When media collide We've all seen films that are based on books (recent feature films include Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter , The Time Traveler's Wife , Eat, Pray, Love, The Road, Green Zone , etc.) What kinds of texts are easy to transform into video form? What makes them easy to transform?

6. When media collide What if we take that further? What kinds of texts are difficult to transform into videos? Why are they difficult? Why do they resist the transformation? Why do *we* resist the transformation? What kinds of questions do we need to ask ourselves about the whole process?

7. Project #5: The Book Trailer Video Project #5 asks us to do those things. We will wrestle with the kind of print text that generally resists a video transformation. We will wrestle with the questions that arise from transforming media.

8. Let's look at some sample book trailers... Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JdPvyy93I Packing for Mars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie52BGvaDd0 Going West: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jyXJTlrH0 I Am In The Air Right Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndOMMUrf-pk

9. Let's read a bit more: Baker, "In a World...Where Books Are Hyped Like Movies" Jaszi, "Watch Before Reading"

10. How to Start With Video To create a coherent Project #5, you need to do a significant amount of planning and preparation before you begin shooting footage or entering into the video editing environment. Once you've chosen your text (and your group, if you go that path) planning and scripting/storyboarding are a good place to start. Take a look at Indie-film-making.com's discussion of planning, scripting, storyboarding . Here's a sample of a storyboard in someone's book trailer creation process.

11. Wrap-Up I am starting a document in Google Docs where we will add everyone's groups (if any) and choice of texts for the projects. Please add yours as soon as they are chosen. I will respond with my approval, any comments, etc. On Monday I will post a survey of tech access and literacy for all of us to take. Please watch for it. By next Wednesday: Please have your text and group members, if any, confirmed. Have a great week!