You know what movie trailers are supposed to do, right? They reel you in by showing the most exciting or most interesting parts and then you go see the movie. Well, book trailers can do the same thing.
Book trailers are advertisements, "short, minute and a half to two-minute videos that introduce the basic storyline" [1]. Today's writers and their publishers have used the concept of a trailer to show the most interesting parts of their books and get people to go out and read them. Your eighth grade class will use book trailers to get your classmates interested in the book you chose. Remember that with your book trailer you become a director and make "artistic and creative decisions [...] as to what parts of the story are presented" [2]. So you decide the parts of the story you really want your class to see so that they will want to read the book.
Though some book trailers are professionally made, many are very simple slide shows with text and music. You can make one, too!
Notes:
1. University of Central Florida. (2008). "Digital Booktalk." http://digitalbooktalk.com/2. Ibid.
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