When we shot the trailer for Caitlin R. Kiernan’s novel “The Drowning Girl,” we accumulated about two and a half hours’ worth of footage. A lot of it looked gorgeous. There were a few moments when we caught some of the activity behind the scenes– not very much if that, since we were conserving our data storage for the trailer video. And most of the footage had very poor sound. The trailer was going to use music, so we concentrated on getting good visuals.
But we had all this footage, and for a few weeks following the trailer’s premiere in March 2012, I toyed with making a DVD that could be given out to the project’s participants and supporters. So I assembled this half-hour “Making Of” segment out of the odds and ends. Eventually, this video (or portions of it) was screened at the ReaderCon 2012 convention by Kyle Cassidy and Caitlin Kiernan, to illustrate how easy it is to make a really striking book trailer. With their permission, I made the full video public on YouTube.
“The Making of ‘The Drowning Girl'” is still very rough, but I’m going to leave it as is. I had a lot of fun on that weekend, and it’s great to have some home movies.