I don't have a book trailer for you today, but I do have a very nice video:
Have a great holiday, everyone!
Showing posts with label monday morning movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monday morning movie. Show all posts
Monday, July 4, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--The Book Trailer
It's Monday! And that means it's time for Monday Morning Movie!
Miss Victoria Caswell requested I post this trailer over a week ago and I've been very rude by delaying it. I will delay it no longer! :)
If you would like a book trailer posted on this blog, please feel free to email me any time. I promise to not make you wait. ;)
Enjoy!
From Goodreads:
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here—one of whom was his own grandfather—were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
My Thoughts:
Oh wow. This trailer made me REALLY want to read this book. Actually, it made me NEED to read it. First of all, the whole Grandfather telling his grandson a story gave the trailer a Princess Bride vibe--which is of course awesome. But the creepiness reminded me of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Or really, anything done by Tim Burton. <---also huge pluses in its favor.
But what really sold me was the fact the Grandfather set this story up so well I was actually leaning toward my computer to hear what he had to say, and then he says he's not going to finish it. GAH! Must read now!!
If I actually gave out ratings for book trailers, this one would get five, very bold, very bright stars.
How about you, dear readers? Are you dying to buy this book as much as me? Do you have an even better example of a book trailer to share? Let me know! :D
Miss Victoria Caswell requested I post this trailer over a week ago and I've been very rude by delaying it. I will delay it no longer! :)
If you would like a book trailer posted on this blog, please feel free to email me any time. I promise to not make you wait. ;)
Enjoy!
From Goodreads:
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here—one of whom was his own grandfather—were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
My Thoughts:
Oh wow. This trailer made me REALLY want to read this book. Actually, it made me NEED to read it. First of all, the whole Grandfather telling his grandson a story gave the trailer a Princess Bride vibe--which is of course awesome. But the creepiness reminded me of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Or really, anything done by Tim Burton. <---also huge pluses in its favor.
But what really sold me was the fact the Grandfather set this story up so well I was actually leaning toward my computer to hear what he had to say, and then he says he's not going to finish it. GAH! Must read now!!
If I actually gave out ratings for book trailers, this one would get five, very bold, very bright stars.
How about you, dear readers? Are you dying to buy this book as much as me? Do you have an even better example of a book trailer to share? Let me know! :D
Monday, June 6, 2011
Monday Morning Video Brought to You By The Marbury Lens
After all the drama that's going on with WSJ (and if you don't know what I'm talking about, you will by the end of the day--practically every other blog is mentioning it), I thought it would be appropriate to post the book trailer for Andrew Smith's The Marbury Lens.
For all my new followers (welcome! The cookies are in the oven!), Monday is the day I post book trailers. If you have one you'd like to see or discuss on the blog, send me an email at emilywhite_1112(at)yahoo(dot)com.
From the back of the book:
Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury.
There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he’s trying to kill them.
Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he’s losing his mind. Conner tells Jack it’s going to be okay.
But, it’s not.
Dun, dun, duuuuuunnn!!! (okay, I added that, but it really needed to be in there)
My thoughts on the book trailer:
Honestly, after reading the book, I felt it could have been done better. In fact, I wondered for a moment if it was a fan-made trailer, but it says it was uploaded by the publisher. And the music kind of reminds me of Jurassic Park. But I'm coming at this as a huge fan of the book, so maybe nothing would please me!
Note: I just watched it for the third time and it's growing on me. At first, I thought it was done too simply, but now that I think about it, the story-line is so complex, maybe the trailer HAS to be simple in order to not be too confusing.
How about you, readers? Would you purchase the book based on the trailer alone? Am I totally wrong and way too biased to judge?
For all my new followers (welcome! The cookies are in the oven!), Monday is the day I post book trailers. If you have one you'd like to see or discuss on the blog, send me an email at emilywhite_1112(at)yahoo(dot)com.
From the back of the book:
Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury.
There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he’s trying to kill them.
Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he’s losing his mind. Conner tells Jack it’s going to be okay.
But, it’s not.
Dun, dun, duuuuuunnn!!! (okay, I added that, but it really needed to be in there)
My thoughts on the book trailer:
Honestly, after reading the book, I felt it could have been done better. In fact, I wondered for a moment if it was a fan-made trailer, but it says it was uploaded by the publisher. And the music kind of reminds me of Jurassic Park. But I'm coming at this as a huge fan of the book, so maybe nothing would please me!
Note: I just watched it for the third time and it's growing on me. At first, I thought it was done too simply, but now that I think about it, the story-line is so complex, maybe the trailer HAS to be simple in order to not be too confusing.
How about you, readers? Would you purchase the book based on the trailer alone? Am I totally wrong and way too biased to judge?
Monday, May 16, 2011
It's Monday Morning Movie Time! Brought to you by THE BODY FINDER
*rubs sleep crusties from eyes* Wow, is that you? It's been so long! I thought for sure blogger had just decided to give up. :)
So last week was pretty much a bust for blogging. I'm sorry about that. Funny story: On Wednesday, I was in the middle of writing a blog post titled Battling the Lazies (it was all about how to ignore those pesky little urgings to do something OTHER than writing) when my sister showed up asking if I wanted to go shopping. So, I...uh...went shopping.
#fail
On a lighter note, I had a great time! I bought some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G tea from Teavana. If you like tea, or you don't like tea, or you think you don't like tea, you must go there. You haven't had tea until you've had real, loose leaf or rolled tea. You know that bitterness you can taste with grocery store tea? Yeah, apparently that's not supposed to be there. (and yes, I swear they aren't paying me to say this) :)
So, now that I've procrastinated enough on this post, I bring you today's book trailer!! Enjoy!
Back of the book blurb:
Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.
Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.
My thoughts on the book trailer:
I'm actually not a huge fan of trailers that show still-life pictures with flashes of video of someone running. There are a lot of trailers that do that, too. They seem to think they MUST actually show someone running, and through the woods, too. Or a school hallway. The problem I see with it is this: you can usually tell when a cheaper camera is being used. There's a different quality to the image. And when you detect that cheap camera image, it's easy to start thinking the rest of the trailer is cheap.
I actually really liked it up until they started using video footage. I loved the image of a girl crouched over the dirt. I just wish they'd left it like that--with images. Of course, mine isn't the only opinion out there, and it certainly isn't law, so what did you, dear readers, think? Did this trailer intrigue you? Are you going to pick up this book?
Discuss! :)
So last week was pretty much a bust for blogging. I'm sorry about that. Funny story: On Wednesday, I was in the middle of writing a blog post titled Battling the Lazies (it was all about how to ignore those pesky little urgings to do something OTHER than writing) when my sister showed up asking if I wanted to go shopping. So, I...uh...went shopping.
#fail
On a lighter note, I had a great time! I bought some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G tea from Teavana. If you like tea, or you don't like tea, or you think you don't like tea, you must go there. You haven't had tea until you've had real, loose leaf or rolled tea. You know that bitterness you can taste with grocery store tea? Yeah, apparently that's not supposed to be there. (and yes, I swear they aren't paying me to say this) :)
So, now that I've procrastinated enough on this post, I bring you today's book trailer!! Enjoy!
Back of the book blurb:
Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.
Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.
My thoughts on the book trailer:
I'm actually not a huge fan of trailers that show still-life pictures with flashes of video of someone running. There are a lot of trailers that do that, too. They seem to think they MUST actually show someone running, and through the woods, too. Or a school hallway. The problem I see with it is this: you can usually tell when a cheaper camera is being used. There's a different quality to the image. And when you detect that cheap camera image, it's easy to start thinking the rest of the trailer is cheap.
I actually really liked it up until they started using video footage. I loved the image of a girl crouched over the dirt. I just wish they'd left it like that--with images. Of course, mine isn't the only opinion out there, and it certainly isn't law, so what did you, dear readers, think? Did this trailer intrigue you? Are you going to pick up this book?
Discuss! :)
Monday, May 9, 2011
A Little Change and a Video
I've been doing the Saturday Morning Movie for a while now, but it wasn't really generating a whole lot of interest. Plus, I've always wanted to keep this blog mostly writing related. But I personally loved combing through YouTube for great videos. So I've decided to move Saturday Morning Movie to Monday and keep it a tad more focused. Instead of posting any old video I happen to like, I'm going to post a book trailer, the book's description (if I can find it), and my impressions.
So here's my first:
Book description:
It’s another sucky year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D’Ablo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlad’s powers. His best friend Henry doesn’t want to be his drudge anymore. And as if all that weren’t enough, it’s getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on the people around him. When months go by with no word from Uncle Otis and D’Ablo shows up demanding Vlad’s father’s journal, Vlad realizes that having a normal high school year is the least of his concerns. Vlad needs to act fast, and even his status as the Pravus won’t save him this time . . .
My Impressions:
First of all, this is the third book in the series. I chose to post this one because 1. I liked it better and 2. It was the only one I could find that I was sure was the official trailer.
So, I have to admit that I'm not all that into vampires anymore, but a book about a teen named Vladimir instantly piques my interest. I just have to wonder how anyone could NOT know he's a vampire with a name like that. Also, I think the trailer was done well. It does a good job of letting us know the plot while also making it exciting enough to interest potential readers. I think this can be hard with book trailers. You certainly don't want a trailer to come off as nothing more than a query letter or back-0f-the-book blurb, but you also don't want to make it too much like a movie trailer, which are often left a tad too mysterious in order to get you to the theater.
So what do you guys think? Would you look into this series based on this trailer?
So here's my first:
The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Tenth Grade Bleeds
Book description:
It’s another sucky year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire D’Ablo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlad’s powers. His best friend Henry doesn’t want to be his drudge anymore. And as if all that weren’t enough, it’s getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on the people around him. When months go by with no word from Uncle Otis and D’Ablo shows up demanding Vlad’s father’s journal, Vlad realizes that having a normal high school year is the least of his concerns. Vlad needs to act fast, and even his status as the Pravus won’t save him this time . . .
My Impressions:
First of all, this is the third book in the series. I chose to post this one because 1. I liked it better and 2. It was the only one I could find that I was sure was the official trailer.
So, I have to admit that I'm not all that into vampires anymore, but a book about a teen named Vladimir instantly piques my interest. I just have to wonder how anyone could NOT know he's a vampire with a name like that. Also, I think the trailer was done well. It does a good job of letting us know the plot while also making it exciting enough to interest potential readers. I think this can be hard with book trailers. You certainly don't want a trailer to come off as nothing more than a query letter or back-0f-the-book blurb, but you also don't want to make it too much like a movie trailer, which are often left a tad too mysterious in order to get you to the theater.
So what do you guys think? Would you look into this series based on this trailer?
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