Here it is at last! The Kids’ Tech Club book trailer for The Candy Shop War by Bran­don Mull.

The book was sug­gested by one mem­ber the first week which prompted other mem­bers to read the book and be enthu­si­as­tic pro­mot­ers for it. As well as being a really fun and excit­ing story, it was a great choice because we filmed it around Hal­loween. The final Kids’ Tech Club project was a lot of fun, but overly ambi­tious for the time we had. We had to redo some of the sound, but didn’t have any time to redo video. For­tu­nately, we took pho­tos and footage from the local candy store, Sweets & Treats, which could fill in some of the gaps. We used Flip cam­eras, iPiccy, Win­dows Movie Maker and Sound Recorder, all resources the kids have access to (the library loans Flip cameras). Next ses­sion we’ll focus on shorter, more con­tained video projects, but the poten­tial is there to do more book trail­ers, espe­cially given the things we learned putting this one together.