The year six book club have been working on their book trailers. The free version of Animoto only allows them 30 seconds so it can be tricky to get that one extra picture or caption in. With the small amount of space allocated, they have managed to capture the essence of the books they are presenting using a theme, music and carefully thought out scenes.
Initially, they used storyboards to plan the photographs and captions. Some of the photographs (taken on the mini iPads) have been digitally edited or manually made into combined pics with good old scissors and glue. The Warhorse team used toy army men to create a battle scene. They used a variety of props (including the boat in Room 5 - thanks Kit).
Some of the stories are quite edgy and I noticed that two of the trailers are David Walliams's stories and two are written by Michael Morpurgo, while one is the first of the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. The children chose their own books and brought them to life through their trailers, made in groups.
We have one trailer left to finish and then I will put up a poll (like last year) so that parents and whanau can vote for their favourite. Enjoy!
PS, the trailers are in the posts below this one. Just click on the links.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Ross Kinnaird is visiting tomorrow!
We are so excited that Ross Kinnaird, the prolific and amazingly talented New Zealand author is coming to visit the juniors and middle school tomorrow!
We have many of his books in our school library. He will be speaking to the juniors in the morning, then the middle school and he will be running a workshop in the afternoon.
Here are some of the books Ross has illustrated.
We are so looking forward to watching Ross drawing pictures live, in real-time! We hope he is kind to the teachers when he does funny caricatures! :)
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