How long is this thing meant to be?

Or, here's some really cool videos that have distracted me...

So, since this is due in… okay, on Monday. I’m still freaking out about the length of the trailers. They’re turning out to be two different lengths, and I have both audios worked out; however, I can’t seem to put basic mp3s on here, so when it’s all said and done, they’ll be up and running with the trailer.

But trailers seem to be anywhere from 30 seconds to 4 minutes, I’m having trouble finding the perfect time. Every time I think, “cool, I’m done” I second guess myself and go back to YouTube and find something else that would be awesome and I start tweaking.

I know I shouldn’t but I do. I’m an habitual tweaker. It’s just my luck.

But I’m gonna stop tweaking.

I already posted thee video to The Karma Club, which is the longest trailer that I’ve found. Another long trailer I found is Plague. And I found that most trailers that go for over a minute are all live action trailers that have cast members and story lines and plots and generally need a decent amount of time between point A and point B for you to understand what is going on.

The shorter videos are mostly animation. While some of the shorter ones are also live action it’s not the kind of story telling that happens in the longer ones. It's more of a means to an end.

The book trailer to Lauren Kate's Torment is like this. It's live action sequences are more about showing brief emotions than it is about showing a story. It's a teaser. 

The one for Divergent by Veronica Roth is around the same length but it's kind of like a blurb. It 's more of a teaser in the sense that it gives you a feel for the whole novel, centering on the choice that Beatrice has to make.

Both of these trailers are thanks to HarperTeen's YouTube page. You can find the link in the Useful Sites and Handy Videos list.