A trailer for a book?

If you have been on youtube lately (okay, that's a given), then you may have seen a lot of trailers for big movies, small movies, indy movies, even recut classic movies (check out Stephen King's recut of The Shining to make it play as a romantic comedy.) Another fairly recent phenom is the book trailer. Now, I know what you're thinking, trailers are film, and books are print (in pages or electronic) - does that even make sense?

Truthfully, not really. But I have seen a few of them that i really liked - notably, Gary Shteyngart's for Super Sad True Love Story - which basically mocks the idea of a promotional vid for a book. The trailer made me buy the book.

Anyway, being a film geek for most of my life, I wanted to give it a shot.

The budget was low (non-existent), the players wre related (as in my son and one of my daughters - both actors), and the passion was high (mine). Mostly I wanted to capture the feeling of the novel, which I think it does quite well.

Have a look and tell me what you think. It's not appearing in the Cannes festival anytime soon - but this wannabee Coppola had a helluva lot of fun making it.