Some time ago, my Minions, your Auntie Heather hosted an incredibly successful contest in which Minions created their vision of their favorite scene from The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod (or some such thing – since that time, Auntie’s brain has melted into a pile of goo, so she may not be recalling all of the details exactly. mmmmm…brain goo…). You may recall that the winner of that contest was a fabulous Minion by the name of Shawn Duddridge. Check out his entry.

UNBELIEVABLY COOL, RIGHT?!?! In fact, I was so impressed by Shawn’s work that I decided to ask him if he’d be interested in some work for hire. So…I hired Shawn to create a book trailer for TWELFTH GRADE KILLS. And he did. And it’s amazing. And I LOVE it. And I’m going to debut it now.

BUT FIRST. (Man, don’t you hate it when I do that???) Shawn sent me a few fun facts about the trailer, and I just loved them, so I wanted to share these too.

- The trailer is approximately 2 minutes, and 23 seconds long.
- It has a cast of 13 people, and a crew of 2.
- It has approximately 10 visual effect shots (including eye replacements, sky replacements, glowing stuff, titles, etc.) out of a total of just over 50 shots.
- Many of the events taking place on December 31st in the book were actually filmed on December 31st.
- Vlad can be seen wearing Fang in one shot (though only the top of its head is visible)
- They spent about an hour preparing a shot that lasts about 1 second… and most of what we prepared isn’t even visible!

So now…without further ado…the official book trailer for The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: TWELFTH GRADE KILLS!

AHHHHHHHH!!!! So amazing! What do you think, Minions???