{"id":2226,"date":"2013-04-24T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:34:21","slug":"cassie-scot-video-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Cassie Scot Video Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPWGTW5OHG4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s becoming more and more popular to make a video trailer for novels these days. I&#8217;m not sure how much marketing influence they have, but it came with my Pump Up Your Book tour (beginning next month) so here it is!<\/p>\n<p>I put a lot of work into this in the end. Most video trailers these days are all text and background music &#8212; no voice overs. They&#8217;re like commercials expecting you to read the TV screen. Silly, and ineffective. It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out that no one wants to read a commercial. So I asked for voice-overs.<\/p>\n<p>That might have been the end except the voice-overs came back sounding so obviously computer generated that it would never work. Whatever else Cassie is, she&#8217;s definitely supposed to come across as real and human!<\/p>\n<p>So I got a good friend, Crystal Futrell, to come over and record the lines. She&#8217;s got a friendly voice that seemed to record very well. (What&#8217;s the audio version of photogenic?) They sound much better now!<\/p>\n<p>Like most book trailers, this is a series of stock photos put together with background music and the additional voice to tell you my less-than-one-minute hook. In my dream world, I&#8217;d have enough money to hire an animator or live actors. In the real world, though, I am pleased with the result.<\/p>\n<p>***If you like the video, please support me by liking it on facebook! The point is to spread the word about the book. Family and friends: You can make a HUGE difference by simply spreading the word through social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s becoming more and more popular to make a video trailer for novels these days. I&#8217;m not sure how much marketing influence they have, but it came with my Pump Up Your Book tour (beginning next month) so here it is! I put a lot of work into this in the end. Most video trailers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,54],"tags":[109,640,69,26,81,111,19,108,110,107],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cassie-scot","category-my-writing","tag-book-trailer","tag-cassie-scot","tag-christine-amsden","tag-fantasy","tag-mystery","tag-new-adult","tag-romance","tag-trailer","tag-vampires","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}