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Have a book you really love? But are tired to telling people what's it about? Then why not show them? Make a book trailer and enter your video in the San Jose Public Library's book trailer contest to win prizes!
Think you can do better? Sumbit your video to youtube and tag it with SJPL2013SRC and cite any images, audio, pictures etc, that isn't yours.
Good luck to you all, and may the odds be ever in your favor!
Check out the top 3 winning entries of the 2013 Book Trailer Contest below:
1st place (winner of an iPad Mini): Hannah V. - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2nd place (winner of a $50 iTunes gift card): Terrick E. - The Things They Carried
3rd place (winner of a $25 Jamba Juice card): Linh N. - Lord of the Flies
Thank you to everyone who submitted such creative and fun videos!
The San José Public Library invites teens to create a book trailer for our Summer Reading Celebration during the months of June and July. Upload a short clip, no longer than 4 minutes, to YouTube. Be creative! The contest is open to all participants in the Teen Summer Reading Celebration.
How to enter:
Think of a favorite book you read for Summer Reading and envision it as a short video, one that will capture the interest of your audience. Create your own book trailer, reviewing the book. You can submit more than one video, but each video has to be for a separate book.
A panel of judges (staff at San José Public Library) will review all entries and select the top three winners, to be announced in August 2013. The panel of judges will use the following criteria when reviewing book trailer entries:
Need some examples? Check out the winning entry from last year's Book Trailer Contest, created by K. Rai.
Here are links to some professional book trailers:
Teens who submit links to their Book Trailer will automatically be entered in the contest. The top 3 winners will receive:
Children Ages 6 and Under:
1st place – Shreyas Anand, Age 6, Island of the Robots (Calabazas)
2nd place – Joaquin Albornoz, Age 6, The Inventor (King)
Honorable Mention – Megan Leung, Age 4, What a Teddy Bear Needs (Evergreen)
Children Ages 7-12:
1st Place – Marisa Leung, Age 10, The Fish’s Pearl (Evergreen)
2nd Place – Arianna T. Le, Age 12, Fate Fate (Tully)
3rd place – Cindy Xu, Age 11, The Tale of the Empire State Building (Calabazas)
Honorable Mention 1 – Shreyan Mayukh Mitra, Age 7, Stop It! I Don’t Like It! (Alviso)
Honorable Mention 2 – Nathan Koketsu, Age 12, Aro (Willow Glen)
1st Place – Shirley Huang, Age 14, Midnight Moon (Vineland)
2nd Place – Kelly Lien, Age 15, Was It Innocence? (Evergreen)
3rd Place – Tess Shell, Age 15, Hidden Flowers Circus (Willow Glen)
Honorable Mention 1 – Aeryn Frost, Age 16, Child of Ink (West Valley)
Honorable Mention 2 – Vi Le, Age 17, The Black Book Market (Berryessa)
1st Place – Jared Russell, Colma (Rose Garden)
2nd Place – Kenzi Smith, Blank Spaces (King)
3rd Place – Queena Xu, Finding Our Melody (Edenvale)
Honorable Mention – Michele Cajes, Happiness (Evergreen)
If you have a talent for creating comic/manga style illustrated short stories, you are invited to enter San José Public Library’s Graphic Novel Making Contest for all ages as part of our Summer Reading Celebration, 2013. This contest is sponsored by San José Public Library, Hijinx Comics, San José Museum of Art and TRY Japan Culture Group.
Here’s how to enter …
Entries will be judged on content and illustrations by a panel of library staff and comic industry professionals. All cash prizes will be awarded as gift cards.
Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at a reception to be held at the Seven Trees Branch Library on Saturday, August 24th at 2:00 p.m.in the Community Room.
San José Public Library staff members are ineligible to participate.
San José Public Library reserves the right to refuse submissions that are not appropriate for a general audience. This contest is open to all California residents.
San Jose Public Library wants your recommendations for the International IMPAC Dublin award now! (Deadline May 16, 2013)
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