Book Trailer Contest - June 1 - July 31, 2012
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text sizeTeens: want to do something more imaginative than just writing a review for Summer Reading books that you have read? Create and submit a book trailer review for Summer Reading, and you could win a Kindle Fire! Upload a short clip, no longer than 4 minutes, to YouTube, providing your review of the book. Be creative! The contest is open to all participants in the Teen Summer Reading Celebration.
How to enter:
- Create your own book trailer, reviewing a book that you read for Summer Reading. You can submit more than one video, but each video has to be for a separate book.
- Post the video on YouTube using the tag: SJPL2012SRC
- Sign up for Summer Reading here, starting in a few weeks.
- When you log the book you read on the Summer Reading website, make sure to include a link to your video in the review field.
Entries will be judged on creativity and content by a panel of library staff.
Need some examples? Check out the winning entry from last year's Book Trailer Contest, created by Nathan Verdonk.
Here are links to some professional book trailers:
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Teens who submit links to their Book Trailer will automatically be entered in the contest. The top 3 winners will receive:
- 1st place: Kindle Fire
- 2nd place: $50 gift card for iTunes
- 3rd place: $25 gift card for Jamba Juice
Entries for the contest must be submitted between June 1 and July 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in August.
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Actually they
Was the book trailer winner
The winners will be contacted
The winners will be contacted today, and will be posted here today or tomorrow.
Were the winners of the book
Judging is taking longer than
Judging is taking longer than we anticipated. We should finalize the judging and notify winners sometime next week.
Will the winning video be
What day will the winners of
We hope to announce the
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Submittal
Yes, you can turn in your
Yes, you can turn in your video submission through the 31st of July.
Oh... I thought it was August
Music
Re:Music
Uh-Oh
I will go ahead and remove
I will go ahead and remove one of the reviews. It shouldn't be a problem. :)
Thank you for letting us know.
Book Trailer / Review
The contest is pretty open
The contest is pretty open for you to be as creative as you want. Last year's winner reviewed the book, with a bit of a twist. Or, here is an example of a different approach to the book trailer. In this one, the creator of the book trailer shows their take on how they imagine the book would look like if it came to life. Here are a few more examples of Book Trailers done by teens, that were not "professionally" done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSOYJAMd_M or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L887q5lCBw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt5bQoUTeVE
Creative Commons
Yes, that should be fine.
Yes, that should be fine.
how old do you have to be to
The contest is open to
The contest is open to participants from ages 12-18.
If I use pictures that I
Please make every effort to
Please make every effort to use only legally acquired photos. It is always a best practice to use only those images that are not violating copyright. The following are websites that have copyright free material: http://morguefile.com/ or http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Video too?
Yes. That is okay to submit
Yes. That is okay to submit both a written review and a video review, but they should be in the same log entry, since the book only counts as one book. :)
images
Remember to only use
Remember to only use legally-acquired photos in your work—otherwise you will be violating copyright. The following are websites that have copyright free material: http://morguefile.com/ or http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Winners
The winners will be called or
The winners will be called or emailed. There will not be a winner's ceremony, but we will post a link to the winning video on the website.
Video Judging
Entries will be judged by a
Entries will be judged by a panel of San Jose Public Library staff members. Judging will be based on the creativity, and workmanship of the video. The video should entice watchers to read the book.
Not sure what to call it
It doesn't have to be super
It doesn't have to be super professional looking. Just be creative! It can be as simple as you filming something that reminds you of the book, having friends act out a part of the book, using some type of animation... Anything! Just be creative! Here is a link to last year's winner to give you more of an idea on what you can do. :)
Winning
The first, second and third
The first, second and third place winners will all be different people.
same question
You can enter in more than
You can enter in more than one video, but one person cannot win more than one prize. So, each 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner will be a different person.
Show ourselves?
No, you do not have to appear
No, you do not have to appear in the video and it is okay to use software to create it.
Length
Yes, a short video, about one
Yes, a short video, about one minute in length, is just fine! The only requirement is that it does not exceed 4 minutes.
any book is ok?
The book just needs to be
The book just needs to be age-level appropriate.
book trailer contest question
For the Book Trailer Contest,
For the Book Trailer Contest, you should submit a trailer. Think of it in the same way as a movie trailer. The trailer is used to promote the book and get people excited about it! You can be creative and try to convey a sense of what the book is about, without giving away any plot surprises or the ending. Check out last year's winning entry for a better idea of what a book trailer is. :)
Accounts
This should be fine. Each
This should be fine. Each person will have their own username when logging into the summer reading website (evanced), so as long as a person posts a link to the trailer they created under their own log-in in the website, it is okay if it is the same Youtube account. So, please remember that the book trailer should be the creative work of the person who logs it on the summer reading ‘website’ (evanced).