Okay, that’s not 100% accurate – sometime toward the end of next week, there will be a FINAL final read-through, after I’ve had some time to let it sit for a bit. There might be a typo or two left, but that’s about it – and this last read-through, I swear that I will not change any words.
Unless I have to.
Got the first scene in the video trailer filmed yesterday, and played with the music bed a bit to sync with the 6 scenes, each approximately 30 seconds long. Also have a pretty good idea of the visuals for each scene – the second scene will probably be the most complex to set up, the fifth the largest (though not necessarily that complex).
Also adjusted the cover image to match the first scene of the trailer (which is basically the cover image in motion, with fog and a nice pan from the girl to the guy on the catwalk). Changed out the characters of the girl and guy – the girl seemed kind of…well, young….and I didn’t want it to seem like it was a story about pedophilia, which it obviously isn’t. And the guy on the catwalk looked fine from a distance but as you got closer, you realized that he was wearing some kind of judo outfit. I’d thrown the character in to replace another I had up there – he looked good on the cover – I left him. He didn’t look good in the trailer, so I replaced him.
So here’s the final FINAL cover.
Today I will probably start assembling the second scene of the video trailer. Depending on how that goes, specifically how the animations go, I may get that filmed as well. Then, as I said, DragonCon tomorrow, radio show Sunday – so whatever I don’t get done today will have to wait till Monday.