The Maiden Seer by Tracy Ann Miller - Book Trailer, enhanced

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After I made the book trailer for The Maiden Seer, I went on to make one for Loveweaver, which I felt was more well developed.  Since I had a few weeks left on my paid month of Animoto, I decided to create another book trailer for The Maiden Seer.

Using the same format of still slides, I added addition images to further tell the basics of the story. The main thing I wanted to ramp up was the music. After a good deal of searching through websites that ask hundreds of dollars to license a song, I found Melodyloops. $12?! There I also found the perfect score by Jon Wright for my book trailer.

I fully own the fact that the music is dramatic, but the build was what I was after. And because the beats are per second, it made it easier to sync the music to my slides.

I begin and end with my book cover, keep to one font (except for my book title), and don't make you read too much. It's a minute and a half, which is on the long side, but that was to utilize the score.

See for yourself:

  

The Graham Saga by Anna Belfrage - 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.

Live action rather than image-based book trailers can certainly work and be effective. This trailer for The Graham Sage by Anna Belfrage is an example where it does work.

The footage of the couple is without dialogue (always wise) and is just out-of-focus enough for us to fill in our own ideas of who these people are. The scenery is evocative and the score is fraught with tension.

The simple captions tell the story well - if maybe including some spoilers - and make us care about what happens to these two.

That's the whole idea of a book trailer, to spark enough of an interest to make us want to read the book(s).