Category: Storytelling
Family History Stories Through Interviews and Questionnaires
Every family has a story worth sharing. Capturing a family legacy lets everyone connect deeply as they gather to discuss favorite memories and combined history. Once the story is captured, Picture This Organized can help you share it through a family history album or tribute video. Family interviews allow us to get to know your family better so we can help retell important stories from the perspective of the people who lived them. They also provide a space for meaningful conversation amongst family members about their lives and memories that they want to pass on. The result is one of the greatest gifts you can experience with those you love and generations to come.
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Honoring Moms: Capturing Life’s Moments in Audio Recordings
Moms themselves are often the ones capturing life’s precious moments through photos and video. They treasure every image. Adding audio recordings also adds verbal expressions, accents, tone, and emotion to the memory. Families enjoy the sounds of laughter or even sadness to relive unique feelings.
How to Create a Personal Documentary
We’ve discussed how to write a memoir and document family history through photos and memorabilia, but what about a personal documentary? You’ve surely watched documentaries on television that educate you about different places, people, and things going on in the world.
How to Write a Memoir
As 2020 nears its end, we find ourselves looking back at a blur of activity and meeting new challenges head-on. But this isn’t the first time you or your family faced extraordinary circumstances, experienced a milestone, or achieved something worth sharing. Why not write a memoir to tell your life story or a biographical history of another family member?
Getting the Most Out of Your Videos
Over the years, I have collected many hours of film or video to preserve family memories like summer vacations, birthdays, and other special events in the form of home movies. If you have years of reels, videotapes, or DVDs, stored in boxes, learn how to convert old home movies to digital formats to preserve your history.
Your collection may include:
- Film reels: old film from 3” to 8” with anywhere from 50’ to 600’ of footage. The cost to convert it is well worth being able to view it anytime
- Tapes: 1 to 2-hour recordings including single or multiple events corrected several hours to many years