Video Sunday: We need milk and cakes and a warm bed

I don’t know how you like to wake up on your Sunday mornings, but I for one enjoy a rousing rendition of Bjork set to eerie stop animation.  Particularly if that animation involves Moomins.  This is quite possibly one of the odder openings I’ve ever placed on this blog.  To be fair, “comet” and “dammit” really are ideal rhymes.  Just not the kind of thing you’d expect to find in a music video for a children’s film.

As for the actual film itself, you can see a trailer for it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBSq15VC5nc&feature=player_embedded

I bet you save a lot of money if you don’t have to worry about flapping jaws.  Dubbing’s easier too.  Here’s the actual website for the film.  Thanks to bookshelves of doom for the links.

If you’d like to get that song out of your ears (and, admittedly, I wouldn’t blame you), trade it in for this one.  It’s the booktrailer for Gordon Titcomb’s The Last Train and a catchier little melody you will not find today.

Let us now consider the state of the modern book trailer.  If you absolutely must have voiceover work done, consider doing so with professionals.  The difference is distinct.  Imagine how differently this video for Lesley M.M. Blume’s newest work Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties would have felt if not for the singular vocal dynamics at work.

Now some actual movie movie trailers.  Were you guys aware that they turned Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story into a film?  This is a charming little trailer and not just because of the huge swath of cameos you can spot.  To my mind, the greatest challenge of any film set in a hospital is the poor lighting.  A good film makes you forget it.  A bad film fails.  This looks, and granted I’m just working on the trailer here, like a pretty good film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pq7HKc9z8&feature=player_embedded

Thanks to Abby (the) Librarian for the link.

And now the rarest beast of all.  The book teaser trailer.  Has it ever been done before?  If not, Dan Yaccarino may have just started a whole new idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7a2d-vYxZY&feature=player_embedded

As I write this, Mockingjay sits in my locker at work.  I’m currently engrossed in Factotum (not the Charles Bukowski novel of the same name, though thanks for crediting me for a moment there), and haven’t any spare brain time for another YA.  That’s okay, though.  I can just be lazy and let Suzanne Collins read the first chapter to me.  It causes me to ask you the following: Name me all the teen and children’s fantasy novels starring Southern characters.  Think it through.  I know there are some.

And for our final off-topic video, while I’m certain a good 48% of you have already seen this, there’s nothing quite like combining Star Wars with the blaxploitation films of the 70s.  The timing actually sort of makes the whole idea behind this one seem possible.  Or maybe I’m a crazy dreamer.

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