Why are trailers and vids exhausting?
Nov. 8th, 2012 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainstardragonI'm serious. WHY?
I ended up making a trailer of sorts for the story in America's Next Author. I lost count of how many tries. I tried several formats. I'd tried recording myself read it too.
No. Nuh uh. Not happy with any of them. So finally I tossed the main points on a page. Those points I put in video maker, originally as titles. I thought about getting some royalty free images to fit, then decided I wasn't going to make the investment, and did not have the inspiration to draw any images. I had this really interesting idea for a cover... but I'll sit on that, and if it balloons into a book then so be it, I'll pull the thought out of the mothballs, because that tiara is freaking intriguing to me.
I did find a good track from the free music archive, and I checked on the licensing. Good to go there, attribution/share alike so in went the credit. I played with it, and I thought. I remembered some of the trailers that had grabbed my attention and the story tone. I played more. I'd always liked the ones where audio clips from the story were used, so I recorded some. In they went.
I yelled at myself, because the more I worked on it... the more "goth" it started seeming. Even the image idea that never went in was seeming pretty goth.
Merlin thought I was being pretty weird. I encapsulated a thank you, filmed myself because I wanted the appeal to have a bit more personal feel. Merlin video bombed me and I didn't notice till final editing, which amused me greatly when I saw what he was doing behind me. So it stayed in.
I don't expect any Oscars, but it would be nice if it helped me get an uptick in the Kiss Cursed Princess' rating.
Merlin's Videobombing.
I ended up making a trailer of sorts for the story in America's Next Author. I lost count of how many tries. I tried several formats. I'd tried recording myself read it too.
No. Nuh uh. Not happy with any of them. So finally I tossed the main points on a page. Those points I put in video maker, originally as titles. I thought about getting some royalty free images to fit, then decided I wasn't going to make the investment, and did not have the inspiration to draw any images. I had this really interesting idea for a cover... but I'll sit on that, and if it balloons into a book then so be it, I'll pull the thought out of the mothballs, because that tiara is freaking intriguing to me.
I did find a good track from the free music archive, and I checked on the licensing. Good to go there, attribution/share alike so in went the credit. I played with it, and I thought. I remembered some of the trailers that had grabbed my attention and the story tone. I played more. I'd always liked the ones where audio clips from the story were used, so I recorded some. In they went.
I yelled at myself, because the more I worked on it... the more "goth" it started seeming. Even the image idea that never went in was seeming pretty goth.
Merlin thought I was being pretty weird. I encapsulated a thank you, filmed myself because I wanted the appeal to have a bit more personal feel. Merlin video bombed me and I didn't notice till final editing, which amused me greatly when I saw what he was doing behind me. So it stayed in.
I don't expect any Oscars, but it would be nice if it helped me get an uptick in the Kiss Cursed Princess' rating.
Merlin's Videobombing.