Producing A Book Trailer
There seems to be a growing trend towards advertising books using a short movie trailer. Most of the large publishing houses produce one for new books they release; either that or the authors have deep pockets!
Not wishing to be left out I decided I had to have a trailer for my books. My publisher being small and my pockets being empty I had to produce one myself.
So armed with little knowledge, Photoshop, Poser and iMovie I set to work. I did have a vague idea as to what I wanted so I started with the characters in Poser. Once the characters were produced I added some simple animation. I made up a couple of backgrounds with text in Photoshop then imported the lot into iMovie.
I used iMovie to add transitions and flying text over the characters. I moved things around and adjusted the timings until I had what I considered to be a passable book trailer.
The one missing element was a sound track. I searched the web for royalty free sound tracks. I needed something dramatic like an action movie theme. I eventually found one I really liked but unfortunately it cost $99 L
So back to the drawing board, further searching turned up a site that sold short royalty free sound tracks that were designed to be looped. I obtained 7.5 seconds for $9, rather more realistic! The only draw back being the resultant looped track was a bit repetitive but hey, beggars can’t be choosers.
So here is Version 1 of my Book Trailer please let me know what you think.
I learnt a lot producing this version so now I have decided to produce something a bit more sophisticated. I might even save up for the $99 sound track. Watch this space!
