Overall Experience
Over the years I’ve developed a progression of questions that lead you from your awareness and knowledge about your ancestry and those who came before you, through your childhood and early memories, young adult life, marriage, parenting and family, career, retirement and later life.
But a significant piece of what makes this experience special are the more introspective questions I ask such as during which parts of your life you felt most alive? What challenges you have faced? Were there points that you reflect upon in which you now wish you’d made different choices? About your experience parenting and grandparenting, your thoughts about aging and dying, and the greatest challenges you’re currently facing.
This combination of the linear more chronological trajectory of your life with the more inward looking personal experience is useful to tell your story in deeper and more meaningful ways. Throughout the process, I take care to listen actively, and use follow up questions to clarify and build upon your answers. This is one of my greatest strengths in listening as a stranger and inquiring for greater depth.
Day of Filming
• Setup and break down of camera, sound and lighting equipment
• Filming of family photos, family trees, genealogy records or other collections, etc. so that they never leave your presence
• Potential gathering of additional B-Roll of subject in their home space
• Filming of interview
Post Production Process
• Music added
• Editing of interview and removal of interview questions
• Integration of existing family photos into the videos
• Transformation of long form interview into approachable individual short videos (according to package)
• Uploading to password protected private webpage to share with friends and family (according to package)
• Delivery of final product in various formats in hard and digital copy (according to package)
PACKAGE OPTIONS
LEGACY VIDEO
LEGACY VIDEO
LEGACY VIDEO
Features a question & answer session with your storyteller, lightly edited to remove long pauses, stumbles and repetitious information.
PREMIUM
LEGACY VIDEO
LEGACY VIDEO
Transforms your interview into a personal documentary by adding your family photos and films*, memorabilia, music, sound effects, titles and graphics, for a program your family will want to watch again and again!
DELUXE
LEGACY VIDEO
DELUXE
The ultimate in personal legacy videos, featuring extensive use of family photos, films*, memorabilia, music, sound effects, titles and graphics – PLUS archival photos and films that really illuminate your story and give your legacy video a “big budget” documentary look and feel. In short, we use all the tools of the video storyteller’s art to celebrate your life story in an exciting, entertaining and unforgettable way.
$1,500
$1,500
DELUXE
- 1 interview, up to 1.5 hours. Additional interviews can be added at an increased cost.
- Chapter titles & opening music.
- Up to 20 photos.
$2,500
$1,500
$2,500
- 1 interview day. Additional days & interviews can be added at an increased cost.
- Interview transcripts.
- Chapter titles & music.
- Up to 50 photos.
$3,500
$1,500
$2,500
- 1 interview day. Additional days & interviews can be added at an increased cost.
- Interview transcripts.
- Custom opening and titles.
- Unlimited music selections.
- Unlimited photos.
- Archival photo research.