Fantasy
Scale, weather and myth. Wide frames, slow pushes, choral score.
Style direction
Cinematic book trailers
Your story.
Told like cinema.
PageRise turns manuscripts into short films. Written from your pages, storyboarded frame by frame, scored to picture and graded like feature work, then delivered in every cut Amazon, social and launch day require.
- 6
- Trailers produced
- 5 weeks
- Script to delivery
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Three films. Three worlds.
Behind the process
Seven rooms
between page
and picture.
Nothing here is automated end to end. Every stage has a human deciding what the next frame should feel like, the technology only executes the decision.
- 01
Discovery
Week 1We read the manuscript, all of it. Then a ninety-minute conversation about the book you meant to write, not the one the blurb describes.
- 02
Script breakdown
Week 1Four to six images carry a trailer. We pull them from the text, write the beat sheet, and agree on what the last five seconds must feel like.
- 03
Storyboarding
Week 2Every shot drawn, framed and timed before a single frame is produced. You approve the film on paper.
- 04
AI cinematic production
Week 3Generative cinematography directed shot by shot, art-directed for continuity in light, lens and palette. No stock footage, ever.
- 05
Editing
Week 4The cut is where the trailer becomes a film. Rhythm, restraint, and a title card that lands on the downbeat.
- 06
Sound design
Week 4Original score composed to picture, plus a full foley and atmosphere bed. Mixed for phone speakers and headphones alike.
- 07
Delivery
Week 5Master, 16:9, 1:1, 9:16, silent-captioned social cuts, Amazon-compliant file and stills pack. Delivered ready to publish.
Trailer styles
Every genre has its own grammar.
Lens, pacing, palette and score change with the shelf your reader browses. These are the six houses we build in most often.
Romance
Warmth and proximity. Shallow focus, candlelight, piano and breath.
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Thriller
Negative space and dread. Cold navy, one warm source, hard cuts.
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Historical fiction
Texture and patience. Candle grade, period detail, strings.
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Science fiction
Silence and scale. Rim light, vast horizons, low synth drone.
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Young adult
Momentum and colour. Golden hour, handheld energy, modern score.
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Before & after
One cover. Ninety seconds later.
Drag the handle to see what a manuscript looks like before and after it becomes a film.
After
The trailer
Before
The cover
Why book trailers work
Readers decide
in three seconds.
A cover competes with a thousand covers. A film competes with nothing, it stops the scroll, carries the atmosphere of the book, and keeps working long after the launch window closes.
Built to be shared
A trailer is an asset readers pass to other readers unprompted, something a static cover cannot do.
Amazon-ready video
Delivered in a format the A+ module accepts, giving your detail page motion where competitors have none.
Made for the scroll
Cut and captioned for feeds, so the film works with sound off as well as on.
An image, not a synopsis
The first three seconds are cinema, not a caption, which is what stops a scroll.
Questions
Before you
commission.
The last frame
Let’s turn your story
into cinema.
Send us the manuscript. We will read it, tell you honestly whether it wants to be a film, and show you the shape it could take.