YOUR DOCUMENTARY
Leaving a legacy through custom documentaries
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YOUR DOCUMENTARY
Leaving a legacy through custom documentaries
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FAMILY LEGACY DOCUMENTARIES
Tell your life story, capture your family history, and leave a legacy of knowledge and values for your future generations. Family legacy videos are the perfect way to preserve your history and inspire future generations.
Legacy videos make fantastic gifts, perfect for special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays, reunions, retirements, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas, and other family celebrations.
Your Story In A Documentary Film
We all have a story to tell – It could be your life journey, your career, your family, your hobby, or your passion. With your own documentary film you can preserve family memories, history, and accumulated knowledge, in your own words, and in the powerful medium of cinematic story telling.
WHAT IS INVOLVED?
- Guided insightful biographical interviews in the comfort of your own home or the home of a relative.
- Professional video production crew will record, edit and deliver a high quality video that is easy to share with family, friends, or kept private. You also get the video on a USB flash drive that can easily be copied and shared.
- Scanning and integration of your family photos into the film.
- Cinematic editing and coloring. This is the most time-consuming part of the process, but also where the magic happens!
- Music selected and mixed to create the best feel of the film using the best royalty free music.
- Family input and feedback before the final cut.
Your Family Tree Research As A Documentary
Are you the self-appointed historian of the family? Have you been building a family tree with Ancestry.com.au, MyHeritage.com, FindMypast.com.au, or something similar?
We can help you turn your research and the stories from existing family members into your own family history documentary.
Take your ancestry research to the next level and integrate archival material, narration, and live interviews into a film that will be priceless for generations to come.
PRE-PRODUCTION
We chat to you over the phone, discuss the project, work out logistics, and give your some resources to prepare for the video day.
This is the time to prepare materials such as photographs that you would like to be included in the film. We have a comprehensive document to step you through this process.
PRODUCTION
We come to your home, or a place we have arranged, and record your biography with a small video crew (the Producer/Director, cinematographer, and possibly a sound technician depending on the shoot).
Cameras and lights can be intimidating but we will make the experience relaxed and unpressured – it will be like chatting to a friend!
POST-PRODUCTION
This is where the magic happens and the most time consuming part of the process. One minute of finished video can take many hours of work.
We scan your photographs, edit them together with your interview, mix music, and get your feedback on the initial cut. We then finish the video and put it up on our Vimeo online host for you to share with family and friends or keep it private.
PRICING
Family Legacy Videos are often given as a unique gift for special occasions such as a 70th or 80th birthday, a 50th wedding anniversary, or to honour a family member who has recently passed away. Family will usually split the costs of the video production with siblings, children, and grandchildren, all chipping in for a legacy documentary that will be valuable for many generations to come.
Legacy Vignette
10 min Documentary- A focused individual biography highlighting key aspects of their life.
- 1 visit, 2 hour interview on site
- 2-3 crew, 2 cameras
- 10 min finished video (30 hours of editing)
- Includes 10-15 family photos or videos.
- Video hosted online (public or private) and a USB drive
- Does not include travel and accommodation outside the Greater Brisbane Region.
Legacy Short
20-30 min Documentary- Capturing the story of an individual, couple or family history in a high production value mini documentary.
- 1 visit, half day of interviews on site
- 2-3 crew, 2-3 cameras
- 20-30 min finished video (90 hours of editing)
- Includes 20-30 family photos & video
- Video hosted online (public or private) and 2 USB keepsakes
- Does not include travel and accommodation outside the Greater Brisbane Region.
Legacy Feature
1 hour Documentary- A complete family memoir in a feature length documentary film, just like you would see on the History Channel. This can be a “living memory” memoir based on live interviews, an ancestry history based on your research, or a combination of both.
- 1 hour in-person planning meeting.
- Either 2 half day interviews or a full day on site.
- 2-3 crew, 2-3 cameras
- 60 min finished video (180 hours of editing)
- Includes 50-60 family photos & video
- Video hosted online (public or private) and 4 USB keepsakes
- Does not include travel and accommodation outside the Greater Brisbane Region.
BIOGRAPHY DOCUMENTARIES
Biographical documentaries can be personal biographies for professional or private reasons. Celebrating the career of a significant individual in a corporate, academic or government setting is often the impitus for such films.
Short Biographies
Short biography videos are ideal for personal branding and to accompany your written biography. It is more likely that people will watch a short video than read a block of text and a video biography can carry an emotional depth that just cannot be done with written words.
The example here was to give some insight into the psychotherapist, author and teacher Richard Hill, as part of his personal branding strategy.
Feature Length Biographical Documentaries
Produced with the same quality and attention to detail as any documentary you will see on platforms such as the History Channel, we create feature length documentaries.
Companies and organisations can celebrate founders and/or key individuals who have made significant contributions to the company, the field of work, or to society generally.
The example here is a biography of Distinguished Professor Peter Corke who has been a trailblazer in the Australian robotics scene. 6 months in the making this documentary also features other significant researchers in the field of robotic vision, outlining the legacy of these men and women.
HISTORICAL & CORPORATE DOCUMENTARIES
The Life of A Door Gunner has had over 3M views on YouTube.
Life/Work Highlights
We can produce a series of personal highlights from crew, staff, or others for an event or simply an archive for your business or department. Below are videos we produced in the memory of those involved in the RAAF 12 and 9 squadrons:
Corporate History, Identity or Significant Event
Whatever significant history or sense of identity you want to present and preserve in video, we can produce the right documentary for you.
The example here to the right was a review of the life of The Australian Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision. Produced for the 2020 final celebration at multiple nodes around Australia.
Community History/Identity
Local history and identity is important for both government and private sectors. We provide video content for local news outlets, local government, and local commercial and not-for-profit enterprises.