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| £1.71 Ghost Dance by Susan Price $2.99 |
I met up with my brothers last week, and mentioned that I was days away from publishing my third book on kindle, GHOST DANCE, the third book in the
Ghost World sequence. Adam looked at Andrew and said, “We ought to make a trailer for them!” Andrew enthusiastically agreed, and the rest of the afternoon was spent in planning how it could be done for no money at all.
I never asked them to do it! It was, I swear, entirely their own idea. For all the attempts I’ve been making to let the world know that my books are on the kindle, making a trailer had never occurred to me.
But, both my brothers love films, and they’re both artists. (Andrew, the older, has worked as an artist for a computer games firm, and does the book covers for my kindle books; and Adam has published cartoons, and draws the Blot cartoons.) They said it would be a fun way of teaching themselves some new programmes and techniques.
There followed a long discussion of whether to use stills, or some kind of puppets, or animated paper cut-outs. What dissolves would be best. “Can we get Alan (our cousin) to play some music for us?”
They are going to meet up this Thursday, to draw up a story-board.
I don’t know if it will come to anything, but I’m agog. I’m even prepared to disturb the moths in my purse and buy them a camcorder (though the last I heard they were planning to borrow my aunt’s. Keep it in the family is our motto. This is why my Twitter name is @priceclan.)
Film trailers are nothing new of course. My friend and fellow Scattered Author, Katherine Langrish, has made a trailer for her book
DARK ANGELS I love it (and the book) and played the trailer to my brothers for educational and inspirational purposes.
I think Kath’s short film captures the atmosphere of her book brilliantly, and I’m impressed by its quality. If Kath had told me she’d paid large splodges of moolah to have it made professionally, I wouldn’t have doubted it, but in fact she made it herself, with help from her family.
I’ll be thrilled if my family can come up with something as good. You can bet I’ll keep you posted on the progress of PriceClan Studios.
