Shooting Cover Images
Over the years as each new title came out, I was also part of the process of cover design. For the Green Valley series and a number of other titles I actually spoke to young
John and Kate from ‘The Manse’
people of my acquaintance who I thought might represent my characters, then organised costume fittings, hairdressers, locations and on occasion babies and animals. It was actually all a huge amount of fun. Then I got the crazy idea that while I had these young people all dressed up in the fashion of a long gone era, I might get a video camera in action as well, and see if we couldn’t get some moving images for promotion. From there was a reasonably small step to deciding to have a try at filming a promo trailer featuring the characters from the book cover.
Colin Shore from ‘Green Valley’
The Cora Villa trailer was an organisational feat bigger than ‘Ben Hur’ almost. Once again, a huge amount of fun looking for costumes, props, locations, and actors.
Eventually I will post a number of shots taken from these photo and video shoots for you to have a look at so many images that never made it to the cover. For now here are just a few of the Green Valley characters. I hope you enjoy them.
Nicholas being rough with Cora, Ben ready to intervene – from ‘Cora Villa’. Cameraman, Natahn in the foreground.
