Irene Duma - Writer Director » Irene as Editor http://www.ireneduma.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:12:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 © irene@strangeduck.com () irene@strangeduck.com Just another WordPress weblog irene@strangeduck.com No no http://www.ireneduma.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Irene Duma - Writer Director http://www.ireneduma.com 144 144 Creative Directing Book Trailers http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/creative-directing-book-trailers/ http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/creative-directing-book-trailers/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:39:56 +0000 admin http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/creative-directing-book-trailers/ Been busy busy busy at my new job as creativ director of  Book Trailers for BookShorts.com. Just the next logical progression in a long line of association with BookShorts and their book loving ways.

Book videos or video book trailers aim to do what movie trailers do for film, or music videos do for song – aim to get your message out there using video, the all powerful captivating moving image.

With the rise of the video on the web, the Internet is a natural medium for book trailers, and a great way for authors to promote their books, their art, their speaking abilities…and build relationships with their fans.

Book videos can take many forms:

  • Author Biographies
  • Video Book Trailers
  • Themed Book Series
  • Book News
  • BookShorts Films – fully realized short films meant for the festival and/or TV broadcast.

What do you do with your book video? You distribute it and spread it around. Put it on your author web sites, your Facebook fan pages, YouTube and MySpace pages. Use Tubemogul to distribute to up to 20 other video and social networking sites.

Ask your fans to put it on their blogs.

Put it up beside your Amazon page. Ask your local book retailer to set up a kiosk in their store and play it.

Book trailers  can also help you build relationships with your readers, and grow your legion of fans.

In this era, authors are ever more responsible for their own publicity and promotion. Luckily with web tools and social networking this is becoming more and more accessible.

]]> http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/creative-directing-book-trailers/feed/ 0 The Canadian Blues – A Funny Song About What Gives Canadians The Blues http://www.ireneduma.com/video-blogging/the-canadian-blues-a-funny-song-about-what-gives-canadians-the-blues/ http://www.ireneduma.com/video-blogging/the-canadian-blues-a-funny-song-about-what-gives-canadians-the-blues/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:14:08 +0000 admin http://www.ireneduma.com/irene-as-editor/the-canadian-blues-a-funny-song-about-what-gives-canadians-the-blues/

I shot and edited this video of our “Cure Your Holiday Blues” party held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Dec 18, 2006. Part of the fun and games included a blues verse-writing contest, where guests submitted lyrics after getting a brief lesson in writing for the 12 bar blues from Paul Quarrington. This video shows the band PorkBelly Futures singing the winning verses on stage.

Featuring Paul Quarrington, Rebecca Campbell, Paul Reddick.

Party hosted by BookShorts.com, StrangeDuck.com and porkbellys.com.

Congrats to Joey Bechta who was the #1 lyrics prize winner.

]]> http://www.ireneduma.com/video-blogging/the-canadian-blues-a-funny-song-about-what-gives-canadians-the-blues/feed/ 0 Archetype #41: The Expectant Mother – Freaked Out Edition. http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/archetype-41-the-expectant-mother-freaked-out-edition/ http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/archetype-41-the-expectant-mother-freaked-out-edition/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:35:19 +0000 admin http://www.ireneduma.com/irene-as-director/archetype-41-the-expectant-mother-freaked-out-edition/

Bookshorts-Archetypes_Expectant_480x360440.flv Archetype #41: The Expectant Mother - Freaked Out Edition.
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Archetype #41: The Expectant Mother: Freaked Out Edition.
Average age: 38. Natural habitat: State of high anxiety.
Overheard: “Kevin, you CAN NOT wear anti-perspirant — the metal in it can seep out of your armpit and into our baby’s brain!”

This film in the Archetypes trilogy, premiered at the “One Minute Film And Video Festival” in Toronto.

Narrated and scripted in the style of school propaganda films of the 1950s, Archetypes animated films, produced by BookShorts.com present minutely observed, caustic commentary with brilliant artwork, so the Archetypes happily but lovingly eviscerate the denizens of the contemporary urban world.

Dir / Writer / Animator: Irene Duma
Based on the Book Archetypes by Mireille Silcoff with illustrations by Kagan McLeod
Pub: McClelland and Stewart
Genre: Humour / Animated Comedy

[tags] funny video, animation, literacy [/tags]

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Bookshorts-BookShortsFILMArchetypesTheMoodie815.flv Archetype Number 17: The Moodie
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Average age: 40.
Natural habitat: on a trip to Bhutan to sample yak butter tea.
Overheard: “You won’t find me in the sort of joint (the Moodie will often use words like “joint”) where it’s two bites of pastel-coloured s— (the Moodie is also fond of profanity) on a plate where some kitchen ponce has made a Jackson Pollock out of coulis!”

Dir / Writer / Animator: Irene Duma
Based on the Book Archetypes by Mireille Silcoff with illustrations by Kagan McLeod
Pub: McClelland and Stewart
Genre: Humour / Animated Comedy
Release: October 2006

]]> http://www.ireneduma.com/editor/archetype-number-17-the-moodie/feed/ 0 The Canadian Blues – A Tale of Bitter Woes http://www.ireneduma.com/video-blogging/the-canadian-blues-a-tale-of-bitter-woes/ http://www.ireneduma.com/video-blogging/the-canadian-blues-a-tale-of-bitter-woes/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:32:47 +0000 admin http://www.ireneduma.com/irene-as-editor/the-canadian-blues-a-tale-of-bitter-woes/ I shot and edited this video of our “Cure Your Holiday Blues” party held at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Dec 18, 2006. Part of the fun and games included a blues verse writing contest, where guests submitted lyrics after getting a brief lesson in writing for the blues from Paul Quarrington. This video shows the band PorkBelly Futures singing the winning verses on stage much to the delight of the audience.

Featuring Paul Quarrington, Rebecca Caldwell, Paul Reddick.

Party hosted by BookShorts.com, StrangeDuck.com and porkbellys.com.

Congrats to Joey Bechta who was the #1 lyrics prize winner.

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Bookshorts-BookShortsFEATUREInsideTheUpsideOfDown883.mov Inside The Upside of Down - Making the BookShort Film with Thomas Homer-Dixon
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This is a BookShorts.com feature and companion to “The Upside of Down” film.

Editor/ Storyeditor: Irene Duma”
Camera: Allyson Reid

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Bookshorts-BookShortsLoungeAtBookExpoCanada939.mov BookShorts Lounge at BookExpo Canada
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1st film in the BookShorts.com videoblog series.

Editor/ Storyeditor: Irene Duma
Camera: Allyson Reid

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