{"id":416,"date":"2010-01-27T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changespell.com\/wordplay\/?p=416"},"modified":"2010-01-27T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:12:04","slug":"for-i-have-succumbed-and-it-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changespell.com\/wordplay\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/for-i-have-succumbed-and-it-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"For I have Succumbed, and It is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wednesday Post<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"TheIt was the one thing I was never interested in doing.<\/p>\n

Not because I felt there wasn’t intrinsically any point, but because I rarely watched one that…well, that I finished watching.<\/p>\n

Book trailers.<\/em><\/p>\n

At first blush, they seemed like an exciting opportunity…a chance to add some Shiny to web sites, and a way to reveal the true sense of a book.<\/p>\n

Problem is, I tend to look at things from the inside out when it comes to the web. After nearly fifteen years of building web sites (yes, there were<\/em> web sites way back then, smarty-pants), I look at shiny new things and ponder not just how shiny they are, but whether they’re robust across browsers.<\/p>\n

Translated, that means how many people will throw their hands up in frustration, experience browser crashes, or stare blankly at a “missing plug-in” message.<\/p>\n

The answer is, lots. Even now.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the whole “added value” aspect of things. If a method of showing off a book doesn’t, in fact, reveal more about the book than previous opportunities, then its only value is the shiny. I like to play as much as the next person, but I’m also a little prone to peeking behind the yellow curtain.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it’s the emperor has no clothes<\/em>. \u00a0Pick your metaphor!<\/p>\n

Point being, I wasn’t seeing book videos that captured my imagination, or that told me more about the book than I could learn by reading the cover flap\/ looking at the cover (and at my own pace, at that). And the visual slideshow of image…text…image…text…<\/p>\n

Not workin’ for me. As a reader, I mean (because shoot yes, I swing both ways when it comes to books).<\/p>\n

So there wasn’t a whole lot of chance that I’d be getting myself a book trailer. La la la. Busy doing other things, kthanxbai<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Well, things change. Embedded YouTube videos are a decently stable format, for one thing.<\/p>\n

And out there in promo-land, some book trailer folks are finally hitting the sweet spot–taking true advantage of the medium’s potential while offering some decent modest-budget packages along with their h<\/em>oly cow, you want what for that?<\/em> services.<\/p>\n

I stumbled across one such company last year, and instantly targeted The Reckoners<\/em><\/strong> for my first book trailer. I had fun with it, too–co-writing the script, tweaking the visuals…and getting all excited when the artists on the other end took my comments and came up with solutions I hadn’t imagined. I’m not used to being on this side of the fun!<\/p>\n

And that, of course, is the point of this whole blog. TO SHOW OFF THE BOOK TRAILER, PEOPLE!<\/p>\n

I hope you think it’s keen. I sure do!<\/p>\n

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