Reflection for Making a Video

I had a lot of fun making this video. I had briefly done a few quick Animoto videos during last school year of my class, but I never told a story with it. I didn't even know that text slides could be added to the slide show. I came up with the idea for my library as I was browsing through a school supplies magazine. I saw the words "Book a Trip" for a bulletin board. I thought that would be a great theme, but I needed a little more. I went to Google and searched reading quotes and found one by Mason Cooley: “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” My family had a day planned for "A Day Out With Thomas" in Billings. My little guy loves reading Thomas the Train books and I thought that I could get some pictures of him "booking a trip" with Thomas. I took some pictures of him with Thomas, getting on board and with the conductor. I knew I didn't have access to my school library so I searched at Google some pictures of the library.
Three pictures were taken from the Internet to complete this video:

1. Kid's Storytime: www.mapleleaf-school.com
2. Children Reading Books: www.vineland.lib.nj.us
3. Billings Public Library Children's Area: www.billings.lib.mt.us
   

I uploaded the pictures to Animoto and put them in the order that I wanted. I added some text slides to illustrate my story "Book a Trip." I added "Come book a trip to your McKinley Library." The music was tricky to find because I didn't want anything that took away from my story and I didn't want music that was too soft. I found a song with just the right edge with no lyrics so it didn't distract from the story I was telling. I had to remix and move the picture slides around three times until it flowed well. It was simple to embed the video in the blog by just copying and pasting the code that Animoto gave. I am planning on giving my video to the librarian to post on the school page and also pasting it to my classroom blog for next year. I saw many of my students at A Day Out With Thomas and I know they will be excited to see the video.