I forgot the teaser part. The other day I created with movie maker a small trailer video for book 2. Guardian. A couple of weekends ago, I was sitting around the deck drinking beer with my parents and we were talking about how my book was coming along. I told them that I had the prologue written and that was about it. Because in the early outline an design of this trilogy, I took into account that I wanted them to be made into movies, so we started to brainstorm a bit about what the movie trailer for Guardian would look like. The idea that I came up with was in a 60 second trailer, the first half was to quote and flash on things from Requiem, then hit on a plot twist before Guardian and spend the rest of the time flashing and dialog from Guardian.
I felt like this would work well because it would remind you of book 1 and prime you for book 2. Other than a handful of people have read book 1, this trailer wouldn't be very significant for those who haven't read it. But those who have seen the little clip and read book 1 found it to be very exciting.
I think I will try to create something like this for book one and get it uploaded to generate hype and interest before it gets published. As far as the one I have now for Guardian. Don't expect to see it any time soon until it's time to launch.
Cool stuff! I'm still trying to teach myself how to make effective book trailers.
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