Fan Made Book Trailers And The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

A FAN MADE Hunger Games Book Trailer (Book by Suzanne Collins) 

I am fascinated by book trailers, especially fan made ones. I suppose that's because I'm looking into making book trailers for my cheap ebooks (okay a plug for my ebooks, but really, they're only $0.99): Adventures in Funeral Crashing and The New Girl Who Found A Dead Body. Looking into shooting a real trailer, though, you realize that it's a lot of work and money to actually shoot a legitimate trailer that looks like a REAL movie trailer and I feel like fan made book trailers are a real inspiration. Anybody can do this! And, they're fun!

For example, here is The Hunger Games OFFICIAL MOVIE TRAILER (And, I really can't wait to see the movie!

Yeah. Pretty cool. I know it doesn't show a lot yet, but the next one will. Still, I know I can't afford, as an indie author (at least not yet!), to make something that looks that professional, although I do, working in Hollywood, actually know people with cameras and editing and musical talent and acting ability. But, I also work in film production and seriously, a professional AWESOME trailer...is a ton of work all by itself and right now, my focus is to write, write, write and get more novels out there for anyone who wants to read them! So, I'll probably have to go the fan/silly/fun route for now. Who knows - maybe it will be more clever and more cool than the professional trailer I'd love to have. I think some of these look pretty great and I know I enjoy people's fan made book trailers - they totally work and people are just splicing together movies or doing something creative! Well, we'll see what I come up with for my own ebooks, I hope, in the near future!

Still, in the meantime, I'm finding myself watching fan trailers on youtube and people are clever with mixing videos to fit the story. It's great! And of course, now I'm on a Hunger Games kick. So, if you're a fan (because you totally should be!) here are a few more fan made trailers. I can't wait until I have fans wanting to make book trailers for my books (hint, hint, hint).

Another FAN TRAILER for The Hunger Games:

Another one, although it's a little on the long side. I think about 1-2 minutes (max) is perfect without being too long:

Yes, this is the last one...but I just keep clicking next on the YouTube feed and finding more!

Book Trailers are pretty great - they get your imagination going. You start to "see" the book coming alive, even if it's not a movie yet. Now, I need to start looking for trailers for Catching Fire and Mokingjay!

Until then - May the odds ever be in your favor...