Macromere Press

Macromere: So explain this book trailer to us.

David: The book trailer works as a kind of slideshow incorporating images from He Who Shall Remain Shameless. The first photo is of Harriet Quimby—

M: The first story.

D: Right, the first story. It starts on June 30th, in Boston, as David searches for her spirit, and the truth of what happened on July 1, 1912.

M: Not all of the images show the faces of the spirits he seeks, though.

D: Not all of them, no. I thought it would be best to change up the images so that some of them were of different aspects of each paranormal encounter, such as the fire in “Arthur”. Fire plays a big part in “Arthur”.

M: And then of course there’s the voice-over….

D: The voice-over, right. Each of these sentences that start with “I was…” is the first sentence in that particular encounter. Taken together there are fourteen different first sentences for fourteen different paranormal encounters, and the images all have something to say about those encounters.

M: Was the trailer terribly difficult to make?

D: Not to sound like a Christopher Durang play, but it’s all in the timing. I had to work on the timing, the length of the clips, how soon the voice enters, all that. The end result took some significant effort, but it was worth it.

M: Thanks, David. We’ll start spreading the YouTube word.

D: As will I.