For the last few days, I've been working on my own book video preview for my upcoming romantic thriller, Touch of Evil (Lovespell, March 2010.) It's been an intriguing exercise, full of technical challenges, visual and audio choices, and the boiling down of close to one hundred thousand words of text into one minute that captures the novel's tone, central conflict, and heroine in what I hope is an appealing and memorable package.
In other words, it's storytelling in a completely different format. I opted to stay away from self-agrandizing author credits and quotes from some of the (lovely, thank goodness) reviews the book has so far garnered, and stick to what I hope potential readers want to see while keeping my message as concise as possible.
Update: I've revised the video to get rid of the scrolling text and added a neat effect in the final frames. Hopefully, this one will be a bit smoother. Thanks so much for all your feedback!
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Thanks to you, too, Pamala. Here's hoping it makes others eager for the book, too.
I'm going to attempt to change the scrolling text to fade in (which has given me a giant headache from working with it all day) if I can make the text legible that way. Will reupload when/if I get the job done. Thanks for the suggestion, Joni.
Speaking of ways to condense a story, I've often thought doing a power point story board might be helpful for plotting and for pulling together a tight synopsis.
How did you put this video together? Considering doing a nuts and bolts "How I did it" post?