The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
This book was published by Vintage Books
© 2005 by Norstedts Agency
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Just reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is too dynamic. Just watching The Girl with the Dragon Tattoois too dynamic. Wouldn’t it be nice to get away from this “dynamic” negativity with a one of kind way to experience The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in a brand new outlet?
Well now it’s easy. Just make sure to buy the new Millennium Scrapbook for only $25.00. The Millennium Scrapbook will be an alternate to just reading the book or watching the movie because of its interactive and visually appealing feel to it.
The 34 page book will take you inside the novel from biographies of the characters and their respective actors to small summaries of the day to day activities that took place between the characters.
Before reading the book or seeing the movie, don’t forget about the brand new Millennium Scrapbook.
“Outside of the Scrapbook”
The book will be 12X12 in dimension, with both a hard front and back cover. The cover will have the same font and logo as you see on the front of the normal American novel plus weird tattoo designs that will fill the space of the cover. Also on the cover there will be numerous real newspaper articles that summarize the story. These articles will preview what will be in the content of the book once you open it. The cover will stay very mysterious with many weird objects also used on it, like the tattoo gun and the bible. In the middle of the cover, from left to right, there will be the words from the novel, “I’m a sadistic pig, a pervert and a rapist.” They will be in a smaller, very faded font which will be hard to read unless you really look at it closely. The point of this scrapbook is to experience what these characters are experiencing and because the case in the story is so old, the scrapbook will have that “old feel” to it.
“Inside the Scrapbook”
The content of the book will mainly consist of the evidence that journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his acquaintance Lisbeth Salander find on the way. As part of the “interactive experience,” consumers will be able to pull out small or large documentation of this evidence. Because of the fact that this will be a scrapbook, the document will slip out of a pocket on the page. So if it is Bible pages or Harriet’s Diary that Blomkvist and Salander found along the way, you will be able to experience the feeling of holding the evidence right in the palm of your hand.
Due to the fact that Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist, a lot the “interactive documents” will also consist of newspaper articles and articles that Blomkvist wrote himself for his monthly magazine Millennium. They will be written by experienced writers who will write them from the point of view of Blomkvist and journalists from that point in time. In the beginning of the novel it introduces Blomkvist as he is leaving a court room because of an unethical act he performed in the journalism world, this scrapbook will go into more detail introducing his career before the book starts and more detail into what happened for him to get in trouble. This is where his articles and other newspaper articles will be used, as they try to give more background on Blomkvist. Also the newspaper articles will be used to introduce and give more background about Salander as well.
Throughout the novel the author of the novel, Stieg Larsson, puts a stat referring to domestic violence towards women when he starts a new part of the book. In the scrapbook, there will be a page dedicated to these statistics as Larsson was trying to use them to prove a point. The stats appear below.
-“Eighteen percent of the women in Sweden have at one time been threatened by a man.”
-“Forty-six of the women in Sweden have been subjected to violence by men.”
-“Thirteen percent of the women in Sweden have been subjected to aggravated sexual assault outside of a sexual relationship.”
-“Ninety-two percent of women in Sweden who have been subjected to sexual assault have not reported the most recent incident to the police.”
The last part of the content that will be displayed in the scrapbook will consist of pictures and bios of all the major characters in the book. On the movies’ website, it shows bios of all the characters as well as bios on the actor that will play the character. Having property rights from the movie, the scrapbook will use the same pictures used on the website of the movie, it will be a great way to promote the movie plus showing a nice visual of the book.
Why the Millennium Scrapbook will work
For only $25.00 you can take the world of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and follow the action right as the novel progresses. With the nicely formed cover and page layout, the scrapbook will be crafted with care, showing a nice artistic approach along with the precision of informative, creative text and pictures. Also the scrapbook will be a great way to promote the movie that is supposed to come out around Christmas time; it will introduce the storyline, characters and the actors who will take those roles. Because author Stieg Larsson pasted away, other writers came into this project to write the articles that will be displayed in the scrapbook. The articles in the scrapbook will help give a lot more background to the many storylines plus, they will over an innovative way to tell the story besides a fictional, descriptive way. The audience that will be targeted will be exactly the audience who buys the book, of course kids and even teens should be warned about the adult nature of the novel but if they choose to buy the scrapbook, they will be satisfied by the artistic, extensive nature of the book. Hope you enough this one of a kind product.
Links:
http://www.debbieoverton.com/images/Scrapbook%20Page%20for%20Oprah%20Project.jpg (of course it wouldn’t have this content but this idea of a scrapbook and things hanging off)
Creative and thoroughly presented idea. I like all of the detail and specifics from the novel you've blended into the scrapbook. I also like how it could bridge the book and film.
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