For my Literature for Young Adults and Children (ENG 320) class, we were required to create a “book talk” reviewing the book. I made my book talk podcast style and I actually enjoy how it turned out! 

The selection I chose for this book talk was Sadie by Courtney Summers. Sadie follows 19 year old Sadie Hunter as she hunts down her little sister’s killer with just a few amount of clues to help her and a switchblade to protect her. It was thrilling to read from the first page to the last and I highly recommend to anyone who wanted a little more serious YA read. 

The process to create this book talk took me a total of four hours to write my script, set up the setting, edit the video, and upload the video to the class drive. 

I set the book talk up podcast style, in order to mimic the book’s own podcast transcripts perspective. Setting the book talk up podcast style is probably why I enjoyed this project so much. For me, it was the most creative project we had to do for the class. And since creativity is right up my lane, I was in my element the whole time. I think I might just continue the Eve’s Reads series!

Of course, that doesn’t mean the video is perfect. The transitions could be so much better, the subtitles need to match the audio, and the lighting needs to brighter. 

Other than that I think it was fun to make and I extremely am thankful for Adena Adams and Jules Wilder helping me as I filmed. They made the process go by much quicker.