Fantasy
Scale, weather and myth. Wide frames, slow pushes, choral score.
The Ninth Tower
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.
- 140+
- Trailers produced
- 5 weeks
- Script to delivery
- 3.4×
- Median pre-order lift
Now playing · Studio reel
The PageRise Reel — 2026
24 fps2.39:1
Featured reel
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.
A Quiet Hour
Thriller
Negative space and dread. Cold navy, one warm source, hard cuts.
Nightfall County
Historical fiction
Texture and patience. Candle grade, period detail, strings.
The Winter Ledger
Science fiction
Silence and scale. Rim light, vast horizons, low synth drone.
The Distant Meridian
Young adult
Momentum and colour. Golden hour, handheld energy, modern score.
The Salt Archive
Featured case studies
What a trailer changed.
Literary thriller · 2025
A trailer that felt like the first ten pages.
Nightfall County — Daniel Wexler
- Challenge
- A literary thriller with extraordinary reviews and no visual language. The publisher's marketing assets were a cover image and a quote card. Nothing about the campaign communicated the atmosphere that made early readers finish the book in one sitting.
- Creative direction
- We resisted a synopsis trailer. No voiceover explaining who did what. Ninety seconds of place and weather, scored for dread, ending on the title in gold.
4,830
Pre-orders
1.4M
Trailer views
“I have seen a hundred book trailers and hated most of them. This one felt like the book. My editor cried. My agent sent it to four other clients.”
Literary fiction · 2024
Stillness, sold honestly.
A Quiet Hour — Elizabeth Hayes
- Challenge
- A quiet book in a loud category. Everything the publisher tried made it sound like a thriller, which drew the wrong readers and produced two-star reviews from people who wanted something else entirely.
- Creative direction
- A solo piano piece written before a single frame was shot, so the edit followed the music rather than fighting it.
1.1M
Organic views
4.4
Average rating
“They understood that the book is small on purpose. Nobody else did. The trailer is the first marketing I have ever shown my mother.”
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.
Trailer on the listing100
Static cover only46
Text announcement21
Relative engagement index across PageRise launch campaigns, 2024–2026.
0.0×
Median lift in pre-orders
Measured across trailer campaigns launched four weeks before publication.
0.0×
Share rate vs. static posts
A trailer is the only asset readers pass to other readers unprompted.
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Higher Amazon conversion
Video on the A+ module lifts detail-page conversion for the same traffic.
0%
Watch to the title card
When the first three seconds are an image rather than a synopsis.
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.