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Would you read a serial killer's diary?
I just put this book onto my "Next to Read" shelf so I was excited to see it had a trailer! I'm not an expert by any means but this trailer left me struggling. It was very short which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it didn't inspire me to go & pick up the book. :(
Fair enough. It was really meant to sort of capture the mood, but yeah, it's pretty short and doesn't give any details of the plot or anything.
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The book's super dark if you're into that kind of thing :) I'll work on some longer trailers that give more of a sense of plot. I'll let you guys know when they're ready!
Exactly! For me, a trailer needs to go further than the overview on the book jacket. The other day I watched a trailer about a book about sex trafficking & the Russian Mafia. If I had picked this book up off the shelf & seen the reference to the Russians, I guarantee you I would have put the book back. The trailer made the book become way more than just the mafia angle & it's now on my TR shelf!I am looking forward to reading Killing Matt Cooper regardless. The premise sounds really interesting!
Hope you enjoy! I'll let you know when I make some longer trailers.
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John wrote: "Hope you enjoy! I'll let you know when I make some longer trailers."Please do! & I'll let you know when I've read the book!
Donna, it's somewhere between novella and short story length -- 23,000 words.
I found the trailer captured a specific mood well, beyond that, I'm afraid I don't have an opinion. I recommend adding a little stock video/animation, available from many sites either free or very cheap, just to show that something happens in the story. As it is, the trailer gave me the impression that it's just reading a diary and I suspect there's more to it than that. I would love to see more :)
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Thank you! I'm working on some longer trailers. The reason these are so short is that I made them using animoto, which lets you do 30-second trailers for free -- but charges you to make longer ones. I'm gonna mess around with my own video editing software to try and make some longer ones.
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Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
I'm indifferent to length. It could be 10 seconds or 10 minutes, if it's gets straight to the point, that's enough for me.There's a lot of freeware video editing software. I recommend looking them up on CNET.
I will warn you though, the longer the trailer, the more viewers will expect it to play like a movie, which you may not want.
Just sharing my experience as a graphic designer, if it helps, great, if it doesn't, ignore me!
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A trailer can often play out like a movie and like you said, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. There's no pleasing some people so you have to find a balance between the two.
Not too long...
Not too short...
Just enough to get some satisfaction ;)
AGAIN, no pun!
I don't believe you. There's totally a pun in there lol
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Hi John!I liked your book trailer, and my answer is, "Yes, of course I would read it." : )
Got Killing Matt Cooper & Killing Sam Knight from Amazon and plan to read both.
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Donna wrote: "Twisted read Maria...be forewarned : )"So what else is new? LOL.
Thanks for the warning Darling. : )
Hope you enjoy! And hope you can stomach the twisted :)
K. I've had this book on my TBR shelf forever. I'm going to check out the trailer & see if it inspires me to move it up on my list. I'll keep you posted!
For some strange reason,hell Yeah!I mean only the fact that we could be in a serial killer's mind and see why the do what they appareantly do would be facinating and of course creepy but facinating. TBR LIST!
Donna wrote: "Hi Savvina!Yes do add this one :)"
Hi :)!My perfect summer read,well kind of if we pretend that the whole "serial killer,dark theme" doesn't exist.Not a light,fluffy read but my kind of summery read
Donna wrote: "Very dark and twisted for sure :)"It could be easily a very twisted but wonderful movie!The trailer is actually really promising!
I've actually written a screenplay version as well :) Hope you enjoy!
Just be prepared for a SUPER dark ride! Just ask Donna.
Hi! Looks interesting, but the trailer doesn't tell me much! Please don't be offended!!
None taken :) I guess it's more a "teaser" than a true trailer. It's really trying to establish a mood. And it's also short because I used a free program to make it and the limit for the free videos is 30 seconds hah.
Very nice trailer. To answer the question, it depends. Most serial killers tend to be well all the same, their deep dark sinister creepy backgrounds definitely make for a good read(no pun intended) but at the same time reading a diary of such a person? could be creepy for sure.I'd read Manson's if he has one, just to laugh at all the crazy stuff that's in there, the guy's gotta be beyond out of his mind after being in prison for 40 years.
Interesting. My curiosity is piqued. But it may be disturbingly dark. I don't know....
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I like when books are told from certain perspectives, such as what this sounds like. Interested :)"
I read this series...pretty good :)
Well, Craig, then you're in luck! Book #2 in the series is free on Amazon, today and tomorrow! Get it while it's free!
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00II5HHB4/
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Hi John :)
Thanks for the update my friend!
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