Chronicles of the New West - Steampunk Serial Trailer

COMING SOON! My next fictional work will be a series of short novels in a post-apocalyptic fantasy steampunk setting called "Chronicles of the New West." Get all the latest news and links to download at http://newwestchronicles.webs.com.

Picture if you will a world not unlike our own, after an unknown Apocalypse. Relics of the old world remain, but steam and steel have replaced computers and internal combustion. Magic has returned to the world. It's a time when men are men, women are women, and elves are elves.

In the aftermath, a new society of city-states has arisen. Two Orders hold them together: the Courtesans, companions to the wealthy and powerful, assassins and spies; and the Gunslingers, holy warriors sworn to protect the innocent, killing so that others won't have to. They believe they are the reincarnations of the Gunslingers of old, reborn again and again to serve their penance, taking the weight of sin on their own souls so that others are free to Transcend.

The series follows the adventures of young half-elven Gunslingers Graeme and Piper Walsh and Chik-cha the Mantis; Courtesan Esme de Winter; tormented Gladiator and former slave Joshua Anders; Gnomish Engineer Wesson Smith; half-gnome and half-elf Mage Dani St. Vincent; and sleazy Alchemist and snake-oil salesman Reginald Woodhouse. These youths have a great destiny before them. All the signs suggest that Graeme is the reincarnation of Graeme Paramander, founder of the Gunslinger Order, and his companions are part of that shared fate.

A Gunslinger's road is paved with bullets and blood; but that's how the New West will be won.

I have used a variety of movie clips to emulate the proper post-apocalyptic steampunk western feel; 2012, The Andromeda Strain, Dungeons & Dragons, The Good the Bad & the Ugly, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Man with No Name, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Roy Rodgers, Sleepy Hollow, The Terminator 2, The Three Musketeers (2011), Tombstone, Van Helsing, Wild Wild West, Young Guns, and Young Guns II. I have used video game footage from Call of Juarez and Red Dead Redemption, and live footage from the California Steampunk Convention 2008, Feshhockachule Kaiserslauters, and the fancy quick draw and gunslinging talents of Calgarian Howard Darby.

Music: "Pilgrimage to the Tower" by Crowfreak77, "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash, and "A Stranger in Tull" by J.R. Flynn, from the score for "The Gunslinger," a movie based on the first novel in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

Graphics and photography are from random Google searches. I probably don't know the original artists. If you do, please let me know and I will be happy to give due credit and even put links to artist websites.

My use of these materials in no way represents a challenge to their respective copyrights. All rights belong to the original owners.

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[SableAradia]

@3096grandmaster Okay, I very well might! Thank you for the suggestion!

[3096grandmaster]

You should get yourself over to "moviestorm.co.uk/forums/" there is a whole community of film animators looking for stories / projects. Nice bunch as well.

[SableAradia]

@3096grandmaster You're quite right in that it is a hodgepodge of other's works. The genre is called "Machinima." You put old videos together in a new way to tell a different story. I'm not a video editor; I'm a writer. I'm just hoping to drum up some interest in my books. If I were that good at editing video, I would be a director. :) If you feel inspired to come up with totally original animation, I wish you the best of luck and compliment your skill and determination.

[3096grandmaster]

hmm would have been nice if the trailer wasn't a hotch potch of other peoples work. May i suggest you do you own trailer using something like "iclone by reallusion" or "Moviestorm" as to be honest this trailer just says stolen work to me and this reflects on the novel giving the viewer the same impression (maybe wrongly) it's is probably nothing new just a mish mash of other peoples work. Sorry to be so negative but this is the impression it gave me.