Three minutes plus — on the long side. I didn’t watch it all the way through the first time. But I did come back to it, because it’s well done.<\/p>\n
This uses a technique of “pseudo-animation”: A series of cartoons or illustrations that accompany the text, or, in this case, voice over, at a sentence-by-sentence pace. Unlike a random jumble of stock images, the succession of cartoons gives the trailer a unified motif, holding it together with greater style. A few stock photos are thrown in, for instance, a shot of Bath. It works okay. The color scheme is simple but striking. The cartoonish b&w drawings are highlighted by red. A nice way to quietly shout: Hey! Vampires!<\/p>\n
The voice over and sound effects really carry this trailer, even when the cuts could use a brisker pace. I laughed my head off when the ridiculous French accents began at 1:39. “Those English bastards! They cut of my…!”<\/p>\n
The premise of the book is also a riot. Here we have the Jane Austen and the Undead craze joined with the Use Famous Writers as characters craze, and hell, a little Alt Hist thrown in for jolly fun. At least, when I last took my Survey of Modern European History Since the French Revolution, I don’t remember the French invading England twice. That alone made me want to read this book.<\/p>\n
Jane of the Damned, by Janet Mullany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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