Lights, camera, action! In this contest you can create a book trailer for your novel, just like a movie trailer. Use text, images, music - you can add whatever you want to grab your viewer’s attention to read your book. Prizes include points and badges! Read through all the information before submitting.
Rules and Guidelines
* The following rules are mandatory for all participants. *
- Time limit for your trailer is a max. of 3 minutes.
- Entries are due at the end of the day on the 10th of August.
- You are allowed to use pictures, gifs and videos as long as it does not relate to yourself. Internet Safety has to be taken into account.
Please check out the YWS rules and Internet Safety rules before starting. - If you use art from the internet, please make sure to credit the creators whenever possible, and make sure not to use it if they don't allow reposts.
See the Plagiarism Rules. - The rating is all 16 and under; that means *no mature scenes, *no excessive gore / violence, * and for other TW’s (swearing, etc.) please provide a warning in your post or at the beginning of your trailer. Do take the Rating Rules into account.
Criteria & Prizes
The judges will look at your creativity, originality and quality, engagingness (Teaser Effect), timing, and adherence to the rules. The judging panel consists of your lovely Gen.Lit Crew.
1st Place: 400 points
2nd Place: 300 points
3rd Place: 200 points
All participants will also receive the book trailer badge!
Submitting your end result
- Double check the rules & guidelines.
- Sign off with your username (not your real name).
- Add a link to your video (e.g. youtube) or just the video itself in the post is also allowed (e.g. imgur). If you'd like to embed your video in your post, you can use the following code:
- Code
[media]link here[/media]
- And that's it!
Sample Book trailers
Check out the fabulous book trailers from the previous contest for some inspiration: Book Trailer Contest
Good luck and have fun!
