Last night, feeling mighty good after finishing a particularly difficult section of text, I decided to sit down and put together a conceptual book trailer for Regal Heart. While the said trailer is low... make that no budget, I feel like it makes up for that fact by being high quality. Ideally you want a lot more "action" (namely video) to a trailer but during the last two months of web browsing I managed to find a very slow paced but moving piece by the artist "Two Steps From Hell". Not the kind of work you'd expect from such a name, but regardless it’s perfect. The sweeping pace allows for flowing text and graphic stills, while action transitions give it that right touch where the tempo increases.
The agent and publisher for Regal Heart is just for giggles right now. Every trailer should provide the distributor and the production company so I included a "dream team" for the time being. I was tempted to include some more textual credits at the end to make it seem more movie-esque but I decided that the time investment wasn't worth the one second of screen time.
You may be wondering but I'm not a screenwriter or a director. Actually this is my first video composition. What you see is simply seven hours of trial and error with Windows Movie Maker and MS Paint plus a whole lot of creativity. For a guideline on "how to" build the composition I looked to other racing trailers to draw inspiration from them. You may see some similarities to the trailer for Seabiscuit, and to a lesser degree, Dreamer. There's been a significant title change as well. The reasoning stems from my continuous literary research that states a book should be understood from its title alone, hence the subtitle, An American Filly.
My apologies for some color loss and blurring caused by Blogger.
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