Book Trailer 101

Before you can create a book trailer, you need to understand what a book trailer is. Just as a movie trailer is a video commercial for a movie, a book trailer is a video commercial for a book. While the idea is the same, the characteristics of a book trailer differ from those of a movie trailer in many ways: history, viewing, raw material, length and cost, viewing on the web and goals. Let’s explore book trailers by comparing them to movie trailers. To see the videos discussed in the podcast visit http://bt101.info/ep02