We’ve gone from traditional hardcover and paperback books to e-book and now audiobook versions becoming widely available. Some authors would like to get a movie option for their book and see their creation on the movie screen.
There is a possibility of a technology in-between an audiobook and a full movie production.
It’s a book-movie.
A book-movie could be a book-trailer done for the full length of the book using video, graphics, sound effects, and narration.
Wait a minute, can that be cost-effect? Is there an audience?
Today a book trailer with narration, video, and graphics costs about $1000 for a five-minute video that summarizes the book.
Consider that a book of twenty chapters (20 scenes) might be equivalent to twenty book trailers.
While this would cost far less than a multimillion dollar movie production, it would still be a large capital investment for an author (or a production team working for a percent like ACX narrators) hoping to sell book-movies to an interested public.
What kind of devices would be available to make this a worthwhile experience? Would authors be interested in offering such a product? Would an audience for book-movies develop over time?
Please offer your opinions and speculations.
I love the idea of a "movie trailer" for books. This is definitely worth looking into as a new media format.
ReplyDeleteI have only started with the Henry Gallant series, on Kindle. Last night I was thrilled to turn a page and see the surprise graphic image of the fighter passing close to the large spacecraft just before Henry and Kelsey headed to Mars together.
ReplyDeleteFor me it is the perfect artwork to bring the narrative to life, with a deeper impact than even a movie, since it involved the Henry and the Kelsey of MY imagination, rather than the stiff or clownish Hollywood types with all the distracting peripheral baggage they carry.
But the big virtues of a GOOD movie are the financial rewards and the new readers. Of course I would love to see your movie.