Your Book, But Cinematic!
Video Book Trailer Services For Authors.

Sixty seconds is our default. A 60-second video book trailer is long enough to establish a world, a lead character and a hook, and short enough to hold attention in a social feed. Teasers can run closer to thirty seconds, and author-centric or narrative trailers sometimes need ninety. A 60-second cinematic video book trailer also fits YouTube, Reels, TikTok and Shorts without being trimmed for any of them.

Live action uses filmed or licensed footage of real people and places. 2d book video trailer services animate flat illustrated artwork in layers, which is why picture book authors usually choose them, since the illustrations already exist. 3d book video trailer services build modelled environments and characters with real depth and camera movement, which suits fantasy, science fiction and world-heavy titles. An animated video book trailer service is the right call whenever the world in your book cannot be filmed.

Choose the teaser if your book sells on atmosphere and you want to give nothing away. Choose our character-driven book trailer service if readers follow your books for the people in them, which is usually series fiction and romance. Choose narrative if the premise is the selling point, which is usually non-fiction and thrillers. Choose author-centric if you are the reason people buy, which is usually memoir and business books.

Every genre, and the craft changes with each one. What can be put on screen, how long a shot is held, and how much of the book is given away are all genre decisions. Our genre section on this page covers video book trailer services for fiction books, non-fiction, children's, autobiography and illustration titles one at a time.

The manuscript or a detailed synopsis, your final cover file, and your release date. If you have them, also send character descriptions, your author photo, any existing illustrations, and two or three trailers whose tone you like. If the manuscript is not finished yet, a synopsis and the first three chapters are enough to script from, and our book writing team can take the manuscript the rest of the way.

The finished trailer, in the cuts and aspect ratios agreed for your project. We set that list at the start, because where you plan to run the trailer decides which framings are worth producing, and we storyboard for those framings rather than cropping to them afterwards. Supporting files such as the script, captions and a thumbnail frame are scoped in the same conversation.

Production time turns on three things, and they are worth knowing before you brief anyone. Script and storyboard approval is the variable you control, and it is usually the longest stage. Live action shoots need scheduling, licensed footage does not. Animation takes longer than live action, and 3D takes longer than 2D. Ask for a stage-by-stage schedule in your quote rather than a single delivery date.

Affordable book trailers are the ones that reuse assets you already own. Your cover art, your existing illustrations, your author photo and licensed stock footage all cost less than originating new material. Cost rises with original filming, custom 3D modelling, named voice talent and longer runtimes. The most expensive habit is changing the script after the edit has started, which is exactly why our affordable book trailer services lock the storyboard first.

Not automatically. An affordable animated video book trailer service is often cheaper than live action for a picture book, because the illustrations already exist and only need rigging and camera moves. Original 3D character animation sits at the expensive end. Live action lands in between, and drops sharply when licensed footage can stand in for a shoot.

On your Amazon author page, the book's YouTube listing, pinned to the top of your social profiles, embedded on your author website, and inside launch and newsletter emails. A video book trailer for book marketing also runs as paid creative on Meta and TikTok, and it is the one asset BookTok and bookstagram accounts can repost without producing anything themselves. Our book marketing team plans the rollout around your release date.

Yes. Video book trailer services for new authors run the same production as any other, with one difference. A debut has no back catalogue to borrow recognition from, so the trailer has to do the introducing. We put more weight on the premise and the cover, and less on the author, unless you specifically want an author-centric trailer.

Ask to see full trailers rather than a showreel of the best three seconds of each one. Ask whether the script and storyboard are approved before production begins. Ask which cuts and aspect ratios you receive. Book trailer makers in US vary widely on all three, and the right company to produce your book trailer will answer all three before you pay anything. Professional book trailer services should also show you work in your own genre, not only their flashiest title.