Book "Teaser"

[sleigh]

I've put together a video "trailer" for A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT and put it on the home page of my website. I may do some further tweaks to it, but if you'd like to check it out and let me know what you think, I'd appreciate it!

Comments

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

The Son Unit (13, reads a lot of SF/F/H) says it's cool and that he likes the music.

I especially like the way you use architectural elements in the trailer to mirror the cover. The text, while a beautiful font, is driving me cross-eyed with the stretchy-shrinky zoom thing. This might be because I almost need bifocals but no so much that the optometrist will actually prescribe some. The sparkly star at the end is nice too. :)

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Glad he liked the music (it's mine...). Most of the images are (sometimes heavily photoshopped) photographs I took while in France.

[greatsword.livejournal.com]

I liked the music and the images, but the text starting out offscreen was driving me crazy - I read quickly, and it causes some sort of cognitive dissonance when the word starts offscreen.

The synopsis you have on the book's page did a much better job of selling me on the book.

As always, just my opinion.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

And, as always, appreciated!

[stevengould.livejournal.com]

Completely agree about the text making one crazy. As long as your using audio (music track) I would go with a audio narration instead of (or in addition to) some non-zooming text elements.

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Now that I've read the text teaser/blurb, I'd be much more interested if that had been spoken narration over the images, especially as we are introduced to a character we can care about.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Hmm... that's three comments now against the converging text. I need to think about this... Hmm...

[haniaw.livejournal.com]

The images and music were really cool - but the floating text was annoying. It either moved too fast or was hard to read due to lack of contrast with the background image. Good idea!