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How to Make a Book Trailer in 5 Easy Steps on a Budget



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How to Make a Book Trailer in 5 Easy Steps on a Budget // Let’s talk about book trailers, which are a great marketing tool when you’re self-publishing your book. In this video, we’re going to be talking about the many different types of book trailers out there, and then I’m doing a tutorial on how to make a book trailer using stock video footage. There are only five steps to make a book trailer, so let’s jump right into it!

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-Music, Epidemicsound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/fpblic/
-Video footage, Storyblocks: https://www.storyblocks.com/
-Video editing software, Adobe Premiere Pro: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?mv=affiliate&mv2=red

Book trailer playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC826qeWFCk&list=PLZpcZ9u8pb_pVC_iW3bokZqLhT097uE7g
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IN THIS VIDEO:
1:11- Types of book trailers
2:57- Budget for book trailers
3:42- Step 1: Write the script
4:47- Step 2: Find the music
6:19- Step 3: Find video clips
8:13- Step 4: Edit the book trailer
9:17- Step 5: Film voiceover

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Mandi Lynn published her first novel when she was seventeen. The author of multiple books, Mandi spends her days continuing to write and creating YouTube videos to help other writers achieve their dreams of seeing their books published. Mandi is the owner of Stone Ridge Books, a company that works to help authors bring their books to life through cover design and digital book marketing. She is also the creator of The Book Launch Planner, a planner designed to help authors publish and market their books. When she’s not creating, you can find Mandi exploring her backyard or getting lost in the woods.

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4 Comments

  1. Happy to see this video. I have made several trailers for a collaboration anthology that I and 8 other writers contributed to. (posted on my account's youtube channel here) They were fun but I had very little experience doing them. Still came out pretty good I think. Thanks for the tips and advice!

  2. Do you ever, or do you suggest making more than one trailer for a given book? I tried a few different ones with different techniques / moods / themes to kind of test against each other or rotate through when promoting the book so that every promotion is not exactly the same. Not sure if that helped or hurt getting the attention of interested readers.

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