I'm working on an audio trailer for Jack Wakes Up as my final project for a Music Technology and Production (aka learning to use an actual music studio) class, and hopefully if it's good enough Seth can use it. I'm taking the approach to mix in dialogue and a narrator like it was a movie trailer, but I'm a little stuck on dialogue ideas and scenes. I'm trying to restrict it to real dialogue from the book, but I'm open to any suggestions. Here's my script outline so far... I'd absolutely love any help any of you can give me for scene suggestions or how to write the narrator dialogue, as I'd like to get going on this thing as soon as I can (possibly even recording some dialogue tonight):
Start with cool music, something Ocean's 11-like... cool and jazzy, upbeat, maybe some horns
VOICE 1: Jack Palms!
VOICE 2: Palms!
VOICE 3: PAAAAAAAALMS!
(possibly a clip of a Czech offering Jack some blow)
NARRATOR: Jack Palms had it all: a hit move, a sweet car, a hot wife... until she ratted him out to the cops.
(some exchange between Jack and Sgt. Hopkins)
NARRATOR: (something about him cleaning up his life but now being low on the cash)
(some scene)
NARRATOR: (something about one shot to get enough to keep him set for a while, pay the mortgage, etc.)
(clip from opening Cafe scene)
And then the trailer launches into the Madvillain song from Jack Wakes Up (I forget... which specific track is it on Madvillainy?) or some other action song if it works better, along with some clips of various action and other exchanges. I definitely want to include the shooting of the car here... any idea what else would sound good here with dialogue and sound effects?
Narrator: Jack Wakes Up, the bestselling novel from podcast author Seth Harwood comes out May 5 for the first time in major print. Pick it up in stores, and let's make this Cinco de May be Cinco de Harwood!
