Book Trailer Storyboard, by Corinne Smith Book: A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz Audience: Middle Grades

Students (5-8) Me in a Leather Chair with the Book. I will be to the right side of the frame, using Rule of Thirds. Chair placed outside with pretty forest scene in background. Duration : 30 seconds Shot Size: Medium Shot Effect: None Titles/Text: Title of Book and Author on the Bottom of the Screen as I speak.

Audio: Hello! Im Ms. Smith, a middle school media specialist from Atlanta, Georgia. Do you love sweet, little fairy tales? Princesses singing to birds? Candy houses and happy endings? Me neither! But did you know that real fairy tales are nothing like that? The Grimm Brothers versions of fairy tales are filled with death, dismemberment, and terrifying monsters. Adam Gidwitz, author of A Tale Dark and Grimm, knows that kids want to know the REAL stories, not the watered down versions.

Duration: 15 seconds Same shot as above. Floating Titles Shot Size: Medium Shot Title Movement: Left to Right Title/Text: Titles of Grimms Tales: Hansel & Gretel, Faithful Johannes, Brother & Sister, The Three Golden Hairs, more Titles will drift from right and left of the screen. Audio: He takes several of Grimms more gruesome tales (titles floating on the screen) and combines them in this brilliant, funny, action packed novel. Our main characters are two children, Hansel and Gretel. Montage of Illustrations from the Book Cover, Inside Panels, Chapter Heading Illustrations Duration: 50 seconds

Shot: Wide Movement: Pan Right Audio Voiceover: Hansel and Gretel are born to a king and queen who love them, but who are forced to behead their own children, due to terrible circumstances. The children decided, understandably, to run away to find new parents, parents who wont cut off their heads. How, you might ask do they decide anything if they had their heads cut off? Youll just have to read the book! Anyway, Hansel and Gretel wind their way through many of Grimms other fairy tales: escaping the cannibalistic witchs gingerbread house (of course), journeying to the Crystal Mountain, living in a haunted forest, even tricking the Devil himself. When they finally decide to try to go home, they have to fight a village-destroying, monstrous dragon. A Tale Dark and Grimm is filled with adventure, hilarity, and you will never guess the ending!

Duration: 4 seconds Picture Movement: Slight Zoom Out Title: From the Mind of Adam Gidwitz Title Effect: Centered on Screen Font Size: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6, White Audio: Booming Reverse Sound

Two Picture Montage

Duration: 5 seconds Shot: Close Up, Camera Zooms In to Title, then to characters Title: Based on the Classic Tales Font: Sign Painter House Script, Size 8 Title Effect: Pixie Dust Audio: Booming Reverse Sound

Begin Audio: Supernatural Soundtrack Music from IMovie (Duration 1:22) Background for all following frames.

Title Screen:

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A Fairy Tale Gone Bad

Title Effect: Letters Ripple Movement: Zoom Out Title Position: Centered Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6, White

Duration: 2 seconds Shot: Medium Wide Movement: Zoom In to Children

Duration: 4 seconds

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A Brother and Sister

Title: Words Fade in, then Letters Ripple Transition: Words Fade Out Title Position: Centered Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6, White

Duration: 2 seconds Shot: Medium Movement: Zoom In to Faces

Duration: 2 seconds Title: Running Away From the Land of Grimm Title Position: Centered Bottom Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 4, White Shot: Wide Movement: Slight Zoom In

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Searching For a Family

Title Effect: Letters Ripple, Zoom Out Title Position: Centered Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6, White

Duration: 3 seconds Title: Who Wouldnt Cut Off Their Heads Title Position: Centered Bottom Font: Baskerville White, IMovie Size 3 Shot: Wide Movement: Slight Zoom In

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Duration: 4 seconds Title: Or Try to Eat Them Title Position: Bottom Right Font: Baskerville White, IMovie Size 3 Shot: Medium Close Up Movement: Tilt Downwards to with Children

Duration: 2 seconds Shot: Medium Close Up Title: Or Throw Them Into Title Position: Top Left Font: Baskerville IMovie Size 4, White Movement: Zoom Into Faces

Duration: 3 seconds Title: The Pits of Hell Title Position: Center Left Title Movement: Four Corners Font: Baskerville, IMovie Size 8, Yellow Shot: Wide Movement: Slight Zoom In, then Out

Duration: 4 seconds Title: Instead They Find A Moon that EATS CHILDREN Title Position: Bottom Center Title Movement: Overlap Font: Helvetica Neue, IMovie Size 3 Shot: Wide Effect: Blurred Picture under Title Instead they find, sharpen under rest of title

Duration: 2 seconds Title: A Fire Breathing Dragon destroying their land Title Movement: Horizontal Blur, then Zoom In Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6 Shot: Wide

Duration: 2 seconds Title: And a Haunted Forest Title Effect: Echo Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6 Movement: Zoom Out Shot: Wide

Duration: 3 seconds Title: This is NOT a Disney Fairy Tale Title Effect: Lens Flare Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 7 Shot: Medium Wide Movement: Zoom Out

Title Screen: Will They Find Their Happily Ever After?

Duration: 4 seconds Background: Space with Stars & Clouds Title Effect: Letters Ripple Title Movement: Zoom Out Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6, White

Duration: 1 second Movement: Tilt, Shift Attention to Title Shot: Medium Close Up

Title Screen: Or Will They Die Trying?

Duration: 4 seconds Background: Space with Stars & Clouds Title Effect: Letters Ripple Title Movement: Zoom Out Font: Baskerville Bold, IMovie Size 6, White

Duration: 6 seconds Shot: Medium Close Up Movement: Tilt Upwards, Shift Attention to Title

Duration: 3 seconds Shot: Close Up Movement: Zoom Out

Title Screen:

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A Tale Dark and Grimm

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Duration: 6 seconds Background: Space with Stars & Clouds Title Effect: Pixie Dust

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Scrolling Credits

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*All pictures from the book are used with permission from the artist. I emailed him, and he gave permission.