My grandmother used to tell me, “Child, never stop learning, it’ll keep you young.” I kept that in mind when I decided to head back to school. Included in the software I received for my classes is a really neat program called Windows Movie Maker and I found I couldn’t resist, I had to play with it after I found an online article for making book trailers.
Book trailers are quite an inventive tool for promoting your books. I’ve seen several and after seeing Gigi’s the other day, I decided to try my hand at it. I thought surely it can’t be that hard. The creative process wasn’t bad. I really enjoyed it and had fun with it. The trouble came when I tried to upload it to YouTube. My first attempt had it saying, sorry this file isn’t recognized or supported by YouTube. What!
I finally broke out the instructions for the Movie Maker. (I’m absolutely terrible about that.) I’m the type who will push buttons and mess with it til I figure it out. Bad Dakota. Anyway, I realized I forgot one important step, PUBLISH MOVIE…yep, if you don’t do that, it doesn’t convert it into a video file which can be read on Youtube or other sites. Lesson learned.
Below is the trailer. I’d be interested in hearing what everyone thinks about it.
9:20 pm on September 26th, 2009 1
Very nice!!
10:31 am on September 27th, 2009 2
Well done!
Book trailers are an interesting concept. I know of a few authors in difference genres that have made trailers for there books. It’s not always done well, but when done right it seems like a good promotional tool.
2:29 pm on September 28th, 2009 3
Oooo, well done, it looks really good!