Making a Book Trailer ... what made me decide to try it again?

Actually, I've done it before. Several years ago I had the bright idea that my husband and I could make a live-action book trailer. We made some mistakes and we learned a lot, and the result was something that I was alternately very proud of and very disappointed in.

So this time I decided to try a different approach. We would just use still images combined with titles. At first we thought we'd use vintage clip art, and that looked rather good, but then I ran across some public domain silhouettes by Arthur Rackham. We scanned those and combined them with royalty free stock photos as backgrounds ... and I was hooked. I thought they looked lovely and decided to do the entire video that way.

And so began my quest for more clip art silhouettes. There are several books of them, mostly from Dover, but most of the figures aren't doing anything much but standing still so that you can admire their profiles. I became obsessed, searching through books in the children's department at our local libraries. I like the result that we've attained now, but I think we could have done it better ... and I have a voracious craving for more art by Rackham. Not just for the trailer, but in general.

In any case, once again it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be (though easier than last time!). Which makes me wonder why I am so eager to try it again.