{"id":280,"date":"2014-02-13T01:27:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2014-10-17T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T11:31:13","slug":"shooting-cover-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/2014\/02\/13\/shooting-cover-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Cover Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years as each new title came out, I was also part of the process of cover design. \u00a0For the Green Valley series and a number of other titles I actually spoke to young<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>

John and Kate from ‘The Manse’<\/p><\/div>\n

people of my acquaintance who I thought might represent my characters, then organised costume fittings, hairdressers, locations and on occasion babies and animals.\u00a0\u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n

\"Colin<\/a>

Colin Shore from ‘Green Valley’<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Nicholas<\/a>

Nicholas being rough with Cora, Ben ready to intervene – from ‘Cora Villa’. Cameraman, Natahn in the foreground.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years as each new title came out, I was also part of the process of cover design. \u00a0For the Green Valley series and a number of other titles I actually spoke to young people of my acquaintance who I thought might represent my characters, then organised costume fittings, hairdressers, locations and on occasion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithresce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}