How to Make a Great Book Trailer – Part 2 of 4
Making a great book trailer has surprisingly little to do with showing what the story is about and, instead, has everything to do with conveying the experience your book provides. Last week, I went over how to create a fantastic script for a book trailer.
One of the biggest challenges for making a book trailer involves finding good royalty-free images and music that are either inexpensive or free to use. This post shows you where to find all the images and music you’ll need!
Find the images
Do a search of pictures matching the phrases in your script. You can find FREE Royalty-free images at these places:
1. http://sunipix.com/Index.htm
2. www.fromoldbooks.org/Search/
3. www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
4. www.stockvault.net
5. www.kavewall.com/stock
6. www.freepixels.com
7. http://www.copyright-free-images.com/page/gallery/
8. www.dreamstime.com (free registration required and limited downloads)
9. www.flickr.com (make sure to refine your search for images with a creative commons license, and to respect the license by crediting the photographer.)
You can also find a wider variety of low-cost royalty-free images at
1. www.istockphoto.com
2. www.shutterstock.com
Image editors
Need to touch up the images? Here are free online picture editors!
1. www.photoscape.org
2. http://www.lunapic.com/editor/
3. www.gimp.org
Your book trailer folder
Create a folder for your video and put all the images there.
Find the music
(Optional) Next, choose what music will play in your video. A great FREE royalty-free site for some wonderful music is at Kevin Macleod’s site http://incompetech.com/:
Another site is: http://www.freeaudioclips.com/
Next week we’ll go over which movie maker to use to combine all the components.
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