After a study of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in which we considered the many different illustrators of the book, learned something of Carroll himself and Alice Liddell to whom the story was first told, and just had fun as we read the book — exploring puns, croquet (yes, we actually played an indoor version of it!), quadrilles (well we tried anyway), and some stand-ins for comfits (skittles if you must know), Edinger House students were invited to create book trailers for this iconic story. Thinking that others might want to learn more about the thinking behind and process of the project I wrote the following posts at my educating alice blog:
1. I think that the trailer is an interesting project because we usually don’t make movies in school.
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2. This year we read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland then we decided… that we were going to make a lovely, funny, amusing, interesting, and awesome Alice in Wonderland book trailer.
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3. It was fun because I loved Alice in Wonderland! If you have not read it, I highly recommend it.
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4.In the beginning, I had to start from SCRATCH! It was hard work but as things came together, it got easier and easier.
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5. In the beginning of making our trailers, I thought that it would be easy, but I was wrong!
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6. I thought it was a really cool project, and I really enjoyed it.
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7. I loved doing the project and I love the way my trailer came out. I hope you like it too!
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8. From reading the book to writing this post, I have been thinking to myself, “This is the best project yet this year.”
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10. The point of the trailer was to tell people that Alice in Wonderland isn’t a scary book written for older kids. It’s a clever and funny story written for a nine year old girl. A great book for all ages.
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11. I picked a song that was mysterious but at the same time bright and bouncy!
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12. I thought Alice in Wonderland was really fun and interesting. I liked all the adventure. I thought he made it really funny by making Alice really calm when really weird things happened. Like when she grew smaller, all she said was, “What a curious feeling.” I also liked how Lewis Carroll made fun of what kids learn in school. I thought it was mysterious but also really hilarious.
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13. The Alice in Wonderland trailer was actually my favorite project because we got to work in Imovie and it was so fun.
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14. Before I got to make the trailer the whole class read Alice in Wonderland together and we talked about it. Part of the point of my trailer was to show that it was a book for all ages and a really great one too.
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15. I wanted the audience to want to buy the book, and iMovie helped with that! In the end, the trailer looked great! I had a lot of fun doing it, and I hope you’ll enjoy it!
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16. Week by week, we read our way through Alice in Wonderland. In two weeks, we had finished! The next step was to look at a bunch of book trailers so we could write one ourselves.
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17. First, we looked at other book trailers. For example, we looked at a book trailer for The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which is very mysterious, because of the fast moving pictures and the music.
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