Starting
the Process
In 2012 my daughters
made a book trailer for my novel Marquel.
The
girls worked with industry friends to hire a name actor.
Eric
Roberts was our choice.
But
before they could hire him, they had to prepare a book trailer script, agree on
the length, location, story board, actors, crew and budget.
My
oldest daughter Marquel played the character Marquel in the book trailer. My
youngest daughter Blair directed her sister and Oscar-nominated Eric Roberts,
who portrayed Zach Manning.
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| Marquel Skinner as Marquel, Eric Roberts as Zach Manning |
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| Blair Skinner, Director |
The
book trailer was to jumpstart book sales, make the Marquel novel relevant and serve
another purpose.
It
would be both a book trailer and a movie trailer. Finding readers and eventually
film funding.
As
with any group project, we split into two teams.
Team
Book Sales (me) and everyone else in Team Film.
I’ll
admit, I was in both teams.
The original
Facebook page was named Marquel The Movie. A little confusing. But hey, we were
all excited, expecting the book trailer to go viral, sell hundreds of thousands
of books and create a demand for the movie. As they say, begin with the end in
mind.
The
trailer released to two-thousand-ish views on Youtube in the first months of
release. A major success to us.
The
Marquel The Movie Facebook page, however, had little more than 100 likes. Our
friends were talking on our private Facebook pages, through email and going to
the Youtube page.
Within
a year of the trailer release best selling author/screenwriter Lee Goldberg found us (on our
Youtube page) and said, “Best book trailer I have ever seen.”
We
were elated!
Even
if book sales were few to flat, I was seeing new reviews on Amazon and other
bookseller sites. Confident it would grow in time.
But
the question our followers kept asking was, “When is the movie coming out?”
I
figured if Team Film wants to make a movie, let’s go! Let’s do a Kickstarter.
Everyone
said to me, “Whoa. Kickstarter!? The first order of business is you need a
script. A really good script!”
All
right, I said, “I’ll write a movie script.”
But how?
Next week - How I Decided To Do It
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