Our Process

Step 1. Oral history and stories. We come to your office or home to record your oral history. We ask stimulating questions to help you tell about your life including some of the more important and significant times, memorable family events and stories. Usually, it will take two of these sessions. We keep the recording session very informal. We can stop and start at your convenience. If there are some questions you don't want to talk about, that is fine. After all, this is meant to be an enjoyable experience. It is you talking about your life. You are the expert on this topic and so no preparation is necessary.

Step2. Photographs and personal videos or film transferred to a digital form. We ask you to gather all the photos and any other material that you may have which illustrates the various parts of the family history and /or stories you have talked about. With your permission, we transfer these materials to a digital format we can use in the video to illustrate some special life event or a family story. We keep what you give us safely protected and returned to you in the condition it was when you gave it to us.

Step3. Video "on camera" segments. When we return to record the video segments, we will have had discussions with you about the kinds of questions and stories you would like to video tape. We will record the video using a professional video camera and lighting. We work with you to make the video portion as easy for you as the audio taping experience.

Step4. Editing-Putting it all together. The final step is for us to put together all the oral history segments and the video segments on special events or family stories and "life lessons and values" that you have chosen to do into a master DVD program package and deliver to you 10 DVD nicely packaged copies.