{"id":3939,"date":"2011-10-21T19:12:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T03:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2011-10-24T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:46:30","slug":"1616-video-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/film-video\/1616-video-trailers\/","title":{"rendered":"1616 video trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made two trailers for my forthcoming book <em>1616: The World in Motion.<\/em> The short one is a little over a minute long and has no voice-over narration. It&#8217;s main advantage is that it&#8217;s, well, short. The other one, a hefty ten minutes long, is more informational.<\/p>\n<p>The short video trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXzT70QsUBc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carol says the short trailer overemphasizes Asia, which is a fair criticism, but I&#8217;ve about hit my limit for now on video work! I thought the long video trailer was just probably too long for most people, but early listeners Anne and Ellen had the following reactions: Ellen says &#8220;I like the long trailer better! I think it has a better sense of the book and is more engaging. But I think the audio track needs some work &#8212; the music&#8217;s a little loud and your voice a little quiet in comparison. I like the script and images you chose though.&#8221; And Anne says of the long version &#8220;I enjoy the narration and all the fabulous graphics &#8230; the music is well selected too. I wonder though-if the sound track could have less volume so the voice over is clearer to listen to. I preferred it in areas where the music was lower. It does run a little long but is very interesting.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So on the basis of that feedback I&#8217;ve turned down the volume on the music (I hope by the right amount), uploaded the long trailer to YouTube, and embedded it here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lAIA8pQh1ds\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made two trailers for my forthcoming book 1616: The World in Motion. The short one is a little over a minute long and has no voice-over narration&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[82,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}