Title: Our Classroom Book Club: Whats in your Top Ten?

Sequence One: Hook for the Students

Need some very upbeat music here. Check out the intro to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=pB5lELPwyYw I love how the music goes from intense to Austin Powers to elevator. 1- Fireman: Firemen like me, like to read! (show something firemenish with a book) 2 -Policemen: I am a Policemen, and I like to read! (another scene to peak interest with action) 3- Moviestar: I am a Moviestar, and I like to read! 4 -Doctor/Nurse: I am a doctor and I like to read! (interest through action) 5 -Coach: Coaches like me. like to read! (interest through action) 6- High School Student 1 Cheerleader: Girls like us, we like to read! (White Female, Brown Hair) Focus in on one face and then back up and show her team do something cool. 7- High School Student 2 Football QB in Gear: Guys like us, we like to read! (Black Male) Focus in on one face and then show a cool throw. 8- High School Student 3 Soccer Player: Guys like me, like to read! In Spanish (Latino Male) Holding book and dribbling ball. 9 - High School Student 4 Smart Student in Library: Girls like me, like to read! (Black Female) wearing glasses, surrounded by research books & laptop 10 - High School Student 5 Student with Guitar: (Need Description) 11 - Teacher One: Hi, I am Mrs. _______________________, and teachers like me like to read; not only for school, but also in my spare time. As a matter of fact, Ive read all these books since the start of the school year. (Holding a stack of books to the camera) How? Im a part of a classroom book club where I pick my top ten favorite books of the year to read and discuss with all of my friends (Teacher walks and then screen backs up to show other people from intro holding similar stacks of books) So, join us today to find your Top Ten because 12 - All in Unison: People like us, WE LIKE TO READ! Fade out (When I wrote this part, I was visualizing everyone from the above sequences standing with the teacher... so the kids would see the same faces and same uniforms etc.... if we split this part, it wont work like that, so we will need to re-think .)

Sequence Two: Explanation of Book Club

Wide shot of students reading and/or discussing a book with narration over scenes??? I think we should use elementary level kids in Sequence Two to support seeing kids their own age participating in a book club. Maybe discuss a book with kids in low level in the background while narrating on top of scene? 13 - Narration I: Are you wondering what exactly a book club is and why would you want to join one? Lets take a look at our classroom book club and see why you and your friends will want to be a part of a it, and become a reader for life.

14 - Narration II: A book club is a reading group with students just like you who read and then meet to talk about a book they are reading by themselves or maybe a book that is being shared with the entire class. Some book clubs meet on a regular basis at a set place while others may meet in different places every time. No matter which book they are reading or where they meet, all members of the book club have fun with their friends while talking about what they have read. 15 - Narration III: Ever had a question about something you have read, but didnt have anyone to help explain it to you? You will never have that problem if you are apart of a book club! Books are better enjoyed and understood when we're able to share in the experience with our friends through discussion. That's just part of why book clubs are so great! With a book club, you can chat about the book, author, time period, and other related topics. It's a great way to stay connected with your friends, and it can keep you on-track with your reading goals. 16 - Narration IV: The coolest thing about our classroom book club is that you get to select what kind of books you want to read. So, whether you want to read about dinousaurs, animals, girls, boys, or sports, there are tons of books out there that you will love! This year our book club will ask for you to make your Top Ten book list. This is where you pick out 10 books you will read over the year. We will meet to discuss those books at our book club, where you can earn a pizza party for completing your list. Lets take a look at some of the books that have made some of our previous book club members Top Ten lists...

BIG MUSIC WITH DRAMATIC TOP TEN SLIDE

Sequence Three: Top Ten Lists and Participant Interviews - Katie Film
Show different kids of all ages share books that have made their top ten lists... fun music and transitions between interviews Maybe oldest to youngest? Maybe interview kids about why they like their book clubs? 17 - Elementary girl (close head shot with her holding book) My name is Claire, and I am in the third grade. One of the books in my Top Ten list is Junie B. Jones loves Handsome Warren, I liked this book because it was so funny. Junie B. and her friends are fighting over a cute boy names Warren. They all do a lot of funny things trying to get Warren to like them. It has a good ending too. You should read it, you will laugh at lot! 18 - Elementary Boy: close up shot with boy in a library reading a book. Hi! Im _________________ and I am in the third grade book club. My favorite book on my Top Ten list is__________. I really liked this book because... 19 - Middle School Girl: medium shot with a girl walking into the library and moving to her club stilling at a table My favorite book on my top ten list is The Clique by Lisi Harrison. Hi, my name is TyTianna, and I am in a book club at my middle school. We meet after school once a month to talk about the books we read that month. The first time we meet a bunch of us girls read The Clique and we were hooked on the Clique series. The book is about middle school girls like us, who are either in or out of the clique. Massie is the leader of the Clique and is super rich. I find it very interesting how she lives in her life being rich and spoiled. I wish I had her life sometimes! 20 -Middle School Boy: medium shot of middle school boys sitting around the library with books. My name is Juan and I am in a book club at my school just for guys. We like to read books about sports, monsters, and sometimes aliens. One of the books in my Top Ten list is Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief Graphic Novel. The action and adventure in the Percy Jackson books are so cool. This book is a graphic novel, which is sort of like a comic book. It really brings the action to life. Us guys, really like comic books, so the graphic novel is super cool.

21 - High School Girl: close up shot of girl with her book club in the background meeting. Hi everyone! My name is and I am in a book club at my high school. Twilight is my favorite book on my Top Ten list this year. I love the story about Bella and Edward falling in love. I am not much for vampires, but my friends talked me in to reading it after they were discussing it in book club one month, so I tried it out and loved it. Book club is a great place to hang out with your friends and find new books you can escape in. 22- High School Boy: close up shot of boy with the book while sitting on gym bleachers I have no idea what a high school boy would read...so we will have to fill this in later. I think the story board doesnt need the exact words, just the concept. (katie) 23 - Close up of a teacher holding a book: One of my Top Ten books is The Help by Kathryn Stockett. This is a story of about life in the 1960s in America. Life was different back then, and this book shows an interesting point of view. It made me laugh and cry. I know that might weird to you that we liked a book that made us cry, but my book club buddies and I really loved reading it.

Sequence Four: Teacher Participation

24 - Long shot of teachers sitting around a cozy place with books, coffee cups, and snacks discussing a book. Teacher: This is my book club. Some of my teacher friends and I read the same book during a month, and then we get together to talk about it. We even have snacks! It is so much fun to talk about the characters we have read about and things we liked or maybe didnt like about the book. 25 - Close shot of the first teacher standing up talking to the camera with her book club in the background. Teacher: Have you ever wanted to just escape from your everyday life? We do too! The books we read in book club are always just for fun books. As teachers, we are busy grading papers and reading books about school, but sometimes we want to read just for fun. We can escape to fun places, go on adventures to far off places, and even go back in time. Books take us away from our regular life for just a little while as we use our imagination to put ourselves in the book. In our book club, we get to live those adventures again as we talk about the books.

Section Five: Video Wrap Up

Show short clips of each book club in action with fun music in the background during the narration. 26 - Narration: Dont wait! Join a book club today, and making reading for fun even more FUN! Because... 27 - Shot of kids book club in the library standing up saying to the camera: Kids like us like to read!

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Camera shake, unsteady camera ( tiredness, windblown ). - use a tripod! Sloping horizons. - keep camera level Headroom wrong. (Too little or excessive) Cut off head or feet. Subject leaning on the frame. Subject size. (Too distant or close to see properly.) Successive shots too similar in content, form and style. Cutting to new camera angle, but similar shot size. Inappropriate camera height for the situation. Disproportionate number of long shots or close shots All subjects composed in the center of the frame. Too much sky in the shot. Shots do not interrelate. Part of the action is missing. Action shot from one angle does not match action shot from another. The direction of the action has changed between successive shots. Shot sizes are too similar, or too extreme. Action leaves the frame, and re-enters it on the same side. Successive shots show continuity differences; e.g. with and without glasses, different attitudes, expressions, dressed differently. Subject obscured. (Foreground intrusion.) Distractions. (Other objects, background, people waving.) Background distracting. Background objects sprouting from heads. Shots too brief or too lengthy. Start of action or scene missed. Zooming - excessive or distracting.- use sparingly and get as close as possible to the action. Panning not smooth, too fast, or overshoots. Person handling objects badly. (Obscuring, moving around) Poor lighting, - especially back lighting. Additional Hints: - Avoid over brief shots:- Always tape the "run-in" and "run-out" to an action, to allow editing leeway. Where possible start and finish a pan or tilt shot with a static (held) shot. Extra editing material:- Always shoot some 'cutaways" showing the surroundings, general scene, bystanders' reactions, etc... Where possible shoot the scene in a number of different ways( e.g. slow pan, faster pan) to allow editing choice(s). "Faulty takes" : If an action sequence goes wrong, it is sometimes better to retake it entirely than to try to edit it later.

Tips - 1. Consider an overall shot of action then move in for closer shots. 2. Always begin with a wide "atmospheric" shot of the scene even if it is not used. Always try to get the camera as close as possible to the action.

Finally, BE PREPARED. When you get ready to record your video, you do not want to have to ask your actors to wait while you get something done or find a prop, etc.

Filming colors Autumn Emily Katie There are basically 27 filming parts. We will also need several transition slides in between filming that will be developed in Mover Maker or whatever programs we are going to use. There are five sections. Do you guys think it is ok to break up and film them separately? I think sections 2 and 4 should be shot by the same person to keep the feel of the film. I can film more if I need too. Becaue it will be impossible for 3 people to sit at a computer and edit at the same time....

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