Plantagenet Princess Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York by Samantha Wilcoxson - 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.

The book trailer for Samantha Wilcoxson's book Plantagenet Princess Tudor Queen, proves that simple can be best.

Here we have no flashy special effects, voice-over, or silly fonts. The sparkly floating lights lend just enough of a mysterious quality, and the text says enough to tell us what the story is about.  The use of images is spot on.

I especially like the choice of music, its rise and fall, and how it times out perfectly to the end of the trailer.

The book cover appears at both the beginning and the end - a must!

Nicely done!

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:

  

Avelynn: The Edge of Faith Book Trailer

This is the trailer that started my interest in book trailers. Avelynn: The Edge of Faith by Marissa Campbell

I have not read this book, but may in the near future.

It makes a slow start since we first see images related to the author. Once the book-related portion begins, the imagery, captions and music are all quite effective and dramatic.

There seem to be several different covers, including one that includes the author, herself? These may indicate various books in a series? It's not clear to me.

These multiple cover images dilute the potency of the video overall for me, but it does its job.

Loveweaver - My Own Book Trailer for My First Post

The first book trailer I saw for a historical romance had a great use of music. It inspired me to do a trailer of Loveweaver and to try to achieve the same effect. The score of my trailer is one of the things I like the most.

Animoto is the website I used to create my video. Their templates, music library and Help page all make it fairly easy to use.

I spent a long time creating my "slides" but once they were done, they uploaded handily. By adjusting the timing of each slide, I was able to pace the music to fit certain transitions.