We’ve been working on this Pennies for Elephants video trailer over the past few days — I think it’s ready to premiere.
We included some of the original newspaper pictures from the Boston Post in 1914 so you can see that the characters in the story are visually based on real people. Lita is giving a presentation this Friday at the Wisconsin State Reading Association (WSRA) Conference in Milwaukee and will be discussing the visual research she does to create characters for her stories. She gave a similar talk last April at the Nashua SCBWI conference but this new talk is really expanded based on all the work she’s done recently for Pennies for Elephants and Yellowstone Moran.
Anyway, let us know what you think of the video!
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Great music and beautiful illustrations. I LOVE the snooty couple! I can’t wait to see this one.
Hey Dave & Lita, great work on the trailer! Lita the illustrations are beautiful as usual. Especially the elephants. I love that you were able to get so much character out of them while keeping realistic. Was that song off vinyl? I like the little record player crackle at the beginning.
Take Care,
Ryan
Hi Ryan, Hi Tricia — Thanks for checking out the video. I used sound effects to simulate the old vinyl sound at the beginning. Somebody else thought it was a person eating peanuts so maybe wasn’t totally successful. These videos are fun to work on. I’ve also done a couple of others for Sy Montgomery and Howard Mansfield — I should probably post those some day as well…
–Dave
Dave and Lita,
Fantastic illustrations, great story idea and the video was terriffic. The sound of the person eating peanuts at the beginning was a nice touch.
Dave