Does anyone know if S&S's Trek license allows them to make promotional videos for their books? I'd love to see something for Titan and/or Vanguard... Thanks!
Ohhh... with Frakes or Sirtis reading a few lines dramatically! Sounds cool, but expensive. So it won't happen
Not S&S, but there is a wonderful book trailer for "Night of the Living Trekkies": http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2010/09/book-trailer-for-night-of-living.html And here's one for IDW's "Countdown" comic mini-series, but done by fans?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXnaqPP81Cw Ah, and a fan-made trailer for the Reeves-Stevens' "DS9: Millennium" novel trilogy!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEo6bklTg1Y
I would love to see something like that. But, yeah I'm thinking the chances of it actually happening are pretty slim.
night of the living trekkies was a fantastic vid loved it. all so found the book on my nook. 9.99 who has read it and are there any other fan films for star trek like that one?
Well, do you mean those kinds of fan films or just fan films in general, because there are dozens of Trek fan films and series out there. They range from everything from guys in their backyards to full on Hollywood level productions.
Certainly, many fan films have trailers. "Night of the Living Trekkies" seems to be quite unique, since the group making it did it as a longish trailer, not as a fully-blown fan film. What we don't know is whether the publisher of the book commissioned some fans (way in advance) to make the trailer, or whether some fan film group made the trailer on spec and offered it to the publisher to use as promotion. It seemed to catch people in the Fan Productions section of this bbs by surprise. Fan filmers have become quite a close-knit community in recent years. http://www.trekbbs.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=32
Thanks, all. I love all the fan films out there, but I was asking specifically about videos designed to promote Trek Lit. Greg, I agree that the movies are great promos, but that's what raised the question in the first place. It seems like S&S isn't taking advantage of it. They have nothing in the Abrams-verse beyond the movie adaptation and the Starfleet Academy young adult line. And with the book industry changing rapidly (Borders bankruptcy, the rise of e-books, ease of self-publishing, etc.) you'd think that S&S would seize every advantage, but it seems almost like they're pulling back instead. The only official promo video I've seen is for the Hayne's Manual and it was.... uninspiring. V
All joking aside, the whole point of media tie-in novels, from a certain perspective, is that you don't have to promote them too hard. The idea is to piggyback on the popularity of the tv show or movie or whatever, as well as on all the hype and promotion surrounding the exciting new tv show. "Based on the hit series!" In that sense, doing promotional videos for tie-in books defeats the point. If you have to spend extra money to promote the books anyway, why bother doing a tie-in? You might just as well promote a original novel and not have to pay a studio for the rights. Star Trek, of course, is atypical in that we're still putting out books based on long-dead tv shows, so we can't just coast on a new season of episodes. So maybe it's worth doing your own promotion?
By request of JJ Abrams' team and CBS Consumer Products. They want the films to carve out their niche first. But IDW has done a comics adaptation, two spin-off mini-series (on Elder Spock and Nero), and "Wired" magazine did a brief comic prequel.