Monday 16 November 2009

Film trailers vs. book trailers

I'm a big fan of Larry Brooks's site StoryFix, which is mainly for aspiring novel writers, telling them how to create satisfying plots.

Larry wrote a post showing how a film trailer can show the complete story structure he advocates all within 2 minutes, the structure that is almost always followed to within a page of film script by film studios.

I wish book trailers did more showing of the plot in this way:

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