This is often best set up as a collaborative group task, to enable students to pool their knowledge of the topic and also of tech tools they can use to accomplish the task. A task such as this also provides excellent opportunities for students to develop their creativity and communication skills. Students are very well schooled on movies, TV programs and the like (outside of school as well as in) and so creating a movie trailer provides great links between prior knowledge they have of what looks good on screen and new knowledge that they may need to develop in order to make that occur in their own movies.
On a slightly different tangent but just as important, tasks like this are a fantastic way for teachers to highlight the importance of copyright free images and music etc. By providing some links to students of where they can access free to use images and music, we support them in making good decisions on digital literacy.
As an added bonus, student created movies can later be used by teachers to teach future students! Sometimes what the students create is well beyond what we thought they were capable of.
Tools mentioned in his post are:
PhotosforClass.com - for images with Creative Commons license (free)
Pixabay - for images with Creative Commons license (free)
Stupeflix, Adobe Spark, WeVideo, and iMovie - Audio recordings
Free Music Archive - Free music archive
FMA- Free music archive
Sound Bible - free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites.
Adobe Spark and Stupeflix - Video editing software
Please see Richards posts for instructional videos on how to use some of these tools, or for more information on how to create Book Trailers. It is also handy to provide links to some of these videos to your students when they are completing this task so that they have some resources to visit to help them out.
If you have done a task like this or do one in the future, please let me know as I would love to share student work (with their permission of course.)