Winners of the 2012 Book Trailer Contest for teens

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Check out the top 3 winning entries of the 2012 Book Trailer Contest below:

 

1st place (winner of a Kindle Fire): Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by K. Rai

 

2nd place (winner of a $50 iTunes gift card): 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens  by L. Do

 

3rd place (winner of a $25 Jamba Juice card): Ender’s Game by L. Chinn

 

Thank you to everyone who submitted such creative and fun videos! It was a difficult decision to choose the top three.

 

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Teens: 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:

 

 

Picture of Kindle FirePicture of iTunes cardpicture of Jamba Juice card

 

  

  • 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.



Posted by Yelena Giannuzzi on Aug 28, 2012 | Comments: 6 |
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Book Trailer

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, August 28.
Hi, I watched over all three winnig videos and I don't understand how the Confession of a Triple Shot Betty won first place over The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. The 7 Habits of highly Effective Teens has original clips and pictures while the Confession of a Triple Shoot Betty took images off of this website http://www.google.com/search?q=hot+chocolate+cup+with+heart&hl=en&rlz=1T.... Not only that, it was a much more creative idea to make a nonfiction book into something abstract.

Book Trailer

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, August 31.
Congratulations to all the winners. What a great way to spend the summer.

i wanna read these books now!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, August 30.
I liked the coffee one and the 7 things one was very inspirational. The Ender's Game one was so funny though! I loved it! Congrats to all the winners!

Thank you for your input and

Submitted by Yelena Giannuzzi on Wed, August 29.

Thank you for your input and concern. The selection was made by a committee based on content and creativity. It was a difficult decision, with so many creative entries. 


The first place winner just

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, August 30.
The first place winner just copy and paste the pictures into a video template already made because I have seen multiple videos in that same format.

Yes. I agree.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, September 03.
Yes, I must agree with you. It was just a work of putting copyright images into a template without proper citing of sources. If this is what it really takes to win first prize, I will assure you that I will do the same thing next year. Instead of spending hours upon hours creating the correct pictures from scratch and making sure not to violate any copyright laws, I suppose just taking a bunch of online images, putting them into a video editor with some flashy transitions, adding some (copyright) music, and putting simple declarative sentences on neon-colored backgrounds should be enough to garner me a first prize. Don't get me wrong; I must admit that the first prize should be given to the trailer which compels the watcher to reading the book the most, but I still think that this is a very strange situation and should be resolved in such a manner.