What is a film book?
A film book is an entire book performed as film — narrated, cast, scored and cut to picture from first page to last. It is not a trailer of a book and not an audiobook with a still image; it is the whole work, watchable.
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Film book, book trailer, audiobook
A book trailer is an advertisement: thirty to ninety seconds, made to sell the book. A film book is the book itself, complete, in cinematic form.
An audiobook is the whole work for the ear alone. A film book is the whole work for the eye and the ear together — and here every film book leaves the house with its matching audio book edition beside it.
How long a film book runs
Roughly one minute of finished film for every thousand words of manuscript. A 90,000-word novel becomes about a ninety-minute film. The same measure holds for the audio edition.
That is a production measure, not a narration-speed guess: it accounts for scoring, silence, scene weight and the seams between chapters.
What a film book costs
12% of the manuscript's word count for base production, with voices at 1% per 2 voices, effects at 1% per 5 effects, and a chosen and mixed score at a flat $1,500.
The matching audio book edition rides with it at 33% of the film book production.
Asked and answered
- Is a film book the same as a book trailer?
- No. A trailer is a short advertisement for a book. A film book is the complete book performed as film.
- How long is a film book?
- About one minute of finished film per thousand words — roughly ninety minutes for a 90,000-word novel.
- Does a film book include an audiobook?
- Yes. Every film book forged here ships with its matching audio book edition.
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