Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Naupaka Blooming by J. L. Eck - Book Trailer

I make no comments or opinions about the book since I have not read it. What I write is about the trailer only.

Listen to me. All of you. Stop with the male baritone voice over. The book trailer for Naupaka Blooming was made silly with it.

Otherwise, I know right away what this book is about. I understand the setting and I know "the story question." The slides are fine and the duration is sufficient to get the information across.  Good job showing the book cover at the end of the trailer.

But the "IN A WORLD ..." voice over from movie trailers, which became running joke, has also rendered this book trailer into a near-parody.

I can envision a Hawaiian girl's voice as a first-person narrator, giving the trailer a more direct connection to the book. "We weren't supposed to fall in love. But we did ..."