Check out the script preview for Stephen King’sUnder The Dome , which play like a splashy Michael Bay preview . Does it make you want to take the book ? Laura Miller at Salon suggests some trailers make books less enticing .
Miller ’s piece item to several uninspiring book trailersfor non - science fabrication books , and actually singles out the prevue for Scott Westerfeld ’s Leviathan as a rare deterrent example of the in force book trailer . write Miller :
A visit to a dedicated drone site like Book Screening or a search for “ book trailer ” on YouTube reveals just how many of these video there are , and a random sample will quickly bring a signified of the low average quality . Typically , a trailer will open with text , fade to a stock picture or a bit of vague footage ( clip of bad weather seem particularly popular , as a metaphor for excited intensity , no doubt ) , then back to text and so on . honorable voice and act talent can be expensive , as can in effect music , so either the soundtrack comes from a chum thrum lamely on a guitar or it ’s been “ borrowed ” from a right of first publication holder who will , it is hoped , remain none the wiser . Some trailers are so rudimentary they ’re just a still shot of the covert tie to an audio recording of a bouncy reading . Anything more challenging can cost the hopeful author as much as $ 3,000 … . True , there are ( a few ) goodbook trailersas well as ( many ) improbably wretched I , but who really chooses a book on the strength of a laggard ?
I ’d say that there are indeed a act of wretched book trailers out there , but a comely prevue can spur some pursuit in your book that might otherwise drop off through the crack . ( display A : Jeff Carlson ’s Plague Year . )
http://io9.com/5026422/watch-jeff-carlson-kill-and-see-aliens-get-laid-++-in-book-trailers
Here ’s another one I quite like :
What do you guess ? Do most book trailers turn you off ? Has there ever been a ledger that you were planning on purchasing until you saw its awful trailer ? [ Salon.com ]
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