Book Trailer Redux

[big_pink]

Just in case you're following me here at Big Pink and not at Robin Riopelle, I just put out a (rather pathetic) call for halp

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[morgandawn]

If I reblog this, do I mention big pink? The name would help draw in fan vidders.

[big_pink]

Oh, yeah, mention Big Pink -- it's all good. Many thanks, my dear!

[tabaqui]

Ooooh. People have done fic trailers. The only people i know who vid are settiai (and her YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Settiai/videos?flow=grid&view=0) and halcyon_shift who vids as LithiumDoll. This is the YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/LithiumDoll.

Dunno if that'll help or not, hope so! There's also something called festivids where many many people vid. Hope you can find someone! :)

[big_pink]

Thanks 'Baq. I shall follow up!

[gina_stormgrant]

I made mine myself using PowerPoint first because I'm most familiar with it, then saved the entire thing with 1 click as a bunch of JPEGs. then imported into Windows Movie Maker. There are free music sites out there, etc. There are people who make book trailers for a reasonable fee. Ask on your RWA loop or find one you like and ask who did it.

Good luck!

[big_pink]

Thanks, dolly. I was thinking that I might be able to use iMovie, which I've used with utterly limited success before (my teenager has a much better handle on it), but I have the feeling that the final product would end up looking like "and mom made the curtains!" About music -- if I had a song in mind, I suppose I'd have to pay the band for it, only fair. I wonder if they'd settle for a free book?

[morgandawn]

my friend just did her book trailer. May help give you ideas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UcFbx4gNdU&feature=player_embedded

[big_pink]

Thanks -- what an interesting thing to wrap my head around, telling a story with music and image. Heck, I ought to be able to do that, right? Maybe?

[morgandawn]

she licensed the music rights through a music site - the cost was not a lot. And then used stock footage (again low cost) or public domain. There are several image sites where you search for images by license - you want creative commons,commercial use with derivative works ok

http://search.creativecommons.org/
http://flickrhivemind.net/

[morgandawn]

not a book trailer but again a vid that vids outside the box. She worked hard to get public domain content. The man reading the poem is a friend and lit professor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqTdqYncQ_U&feature=relmfu