e-Book trailers made in city creating waves

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The concept of e-book trailers might still be alien to many Indian authors and readers. But the animation studio owned by actor Mohanlal in the city, Vismayas Max, has been cashing in on the trend successfully to earn appreciation from global readers. After the creation of an e-book trailer for British author and script-writer Joanne Reay’s supernatural trilogy that had won accolades at the London Book Fair in April, Vismayas has come up with a sequel trailer for the next book in the series. While the first one was named ‘Lola’ after the Lo’life trilogy of the author, the new one has been named ‘Hash-tu-stash.’ It is Beautiful Books that is bringing out the trilogy that has already created waves among lovers of supernatural fiction. The trilogy revolves around human beings who are targeted by supernatural beings to usurp their life-span on Earth.They tempt human beings to trade their unspent life on Earth for a beautiful death. “They are targeted by Tormentas, who guide the humans to their death,” says Deepak Raj, who worked on the storyboard. The creative direction of the second trailer has again been done by K D Shybu, who had led the team in its first effort too. “They had sent us the background score and the voice-over. We worked on the storyboard and went with the idea of giving an eerie look to it, so that we do not miss out on the supernatural element of the story,” says Jibin Surendran, who helped with the composing. Vinod Malachira, project coordinator; Kalesh Karunakar, Vismayas comic book specialist; Bipin Krishna and Shibith Kotoor, who gave the background and colour schemes and Praveen M S are the other team members associated with the e-book trailer creation. The trailer is 4 minutes, 22 seconds long.However, what has put the Team Vismayas on cloud nine is the offer they have received from Ann Aguirre, the US-based best-selling author, who is also known to roll out sci-fi and fantasy novels. If things pan out well, the team might even be doing the pre-production work of a Hollywood movie, the talks for which are currently on.