Audio -Video Memoirs:

As our client, you would spend  2 to 4 hours with us in video interviews in your  home (or in another place if your home is not conducive).  You would need to spend some prep time  rounding up your old family photographs for scanning to help the story move along. 

Sometimes in showing us a photo a great story emerges on its own.

Our camera equipment is modest and unimposing.  A high-end HD camcorder on a tripod and a lavalier microphone.  No intrusive lighting or peripheral equipment.  Our philosophy is that comfort and ease in telling your story in your own good time and in your own home if possible will help your natural essence shine through.  

The interview process is relaxed and open-ended.  We usually start at the beginning...with your early family and your memories of parents, grandparents, etc.

Once the interviews are complete, we turn  your own words into audio and video stories.  We produce a lightly edited audio archive of your memories for playback on a CD and/or MP3 player. The CD will be included in your final package-- a DVD-CD set with a customized cover that can be given as a gift to your loved ones. (See Our Products and Prices.)

For the video story, we will use your family photos and, where possible, materials available on the internet to provide an entertaining documentary feel as you tell the story.   Materials from the internet might include maps of the area you are describing and sometimes even pictures of the "old homestead."  We especially love to surprise our clients with web-based historical images of people or places they haven't seen in a long time.

Your video story (typically 5 to 10 minutes in length) is chosen in collaboration with you, based on its dramatic, historic, or entertaining potential.  That story will become the basis for a beautiful DVD set  with a customized cover that you can give as a holiday gift to your loved ones.

We keep you inolved along the way with draft audio and video products for your critique and approval.   

As a last step, and with your approval, we upload your video story to Youtube, with an unlisted setting, which means you control its access as only you can provide the web address to family members or friends.