Jade of Supernova Hair and Tattoo
Book Trailers!
Monday, July 6th, 2009 | Updates | 2 Comments
So after a long, much needed holiday week, I am back in the editing chair. I’m proud and happy to say that we’ve completed work on two book trailers for Fantasy author Robin Hobb’s upcoming novel DRAGON KEEPER, which is due out this month from Voyager. DRAGON KEEPER is set in the same world as the LIVESHIP TRADERS TRILOGY. For this project, I worked extensively with Ms Hobb developing her concept. We teamed up with special effects master, Tim Peirson of Cast of Thousands who worked with Ms Hobb to develop the facial features of people of the Rain Wilds. This is the first official depiction of the people of the Rain Wilds and she was very pleased with the results. Jade of Supernova Hair and Tattoo did a fabulous job on hair and all in all we were very pleased.
I did two versions of this trailer. The first version was Ms Hobb’s, with a voiceover that she wrote. The second is mine, with title cards, so that the cards may be easily translated into other languages if she so chooses. I’ve included both below. The Voiceover cut is currently up at Voyager Online.
Voiceover cut:
Title cards:
Many thanks to our two actors, who were exceedingly patient and to the production assistant, who managed, of all things, to find a secret hidden box in a tree with a tiny notebook in it, asking those who found it to leave a note. We filled it out appropriately, so somewhere in the woods near Tacoma, there is a notebook in a tiny box that says, “Book trailer for Robin Hobb” and contains this website’s url.
I really look forward to doing more book trailers. I really enjoy the creative aspect. Writers so rarely get any sizable input in the visual representations of their characters. They do not have a large voice in book covers. It was fascinating to me to watch Tim Peirson and Robin Hobb bring the people of the Rain Wild to life and strange to have a real Rain Wilder sitting in my living room.
Hope this finds you all well and rested after the summer holiday-
Kat