Your family is unique. There will never be another family like yours. I'll bet you can still remember your mom recalling some of those wonderful times you had growing up. It seems so many years ago, almost another lifetime as you take the family photo album out from the old chest, dust the cover and go through the pages once more.
Your heart and mind follow photos back in time and you can almost feel the summer sun on your warm skin as you stare at that photo of you and dad so many years ago in Yosemite. You remember and still chuckle at how wide and large moms eyes became as she recalled chasing the bear out of camp with a saucepan and a spoon - hootin' at the top of her lungs: "Go bear!" In your minds eye, you can almost see her again, and you're drawn back to all the times she would tell that story throughout the years. You never tired of hearing it again and again. Ah, she's gone now and nobody can tell that story like mom. Now, even the photo of that wonderful family vacation is fading and cracked.
You have tried to pass the story on to your children, showing them the photo, trying your best to get as excited as your mom did when telling the story but it isn't the same. Throughout the years, you and your family have made new, delightful memories.
Today, you have the opportunity to preserve all the photos, memories, personal legacies, lessons, values - Everything that makes you and your family unique - to your children, their children and for generations to come. You don't have to be famous to tell your unique stories and pass on the legacy of your family with the same professional style documentary previously available to historical or well known people.
You decide your budget, how long the documentary will be and what will be included to tell the story you want to have passed on. Your family will enjoy the same broadcast quality documentary as any documentary available on TV today. Professional HD camera, lighting and sound equipment will be used. You will be interviewed by a professional documentarian and it will be completed with music, voice overs, Ken Burns effects, transitions, special effects - The sky is the limit!
You might decide you want to be the director of your own family documentary. I say, wonderful! The important thing is to preserve your family legacy. It is precious. And for those people, you will find how-to tips on photo preservation, interview tips, camera techniques, photo scrap booking, all kinds of different and necessary skills to help you preserve your family memories. I hope you will subscribe to my RSS feed - That way you will know when I make a new post.
Under the posts is a section for comments and feedback. Please feel free to ask questions and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible.
For those who don't want to take on such a monumental project, I hope you'll give me a call to schedule a free consultation today.
Shirley Morris
Documentary Filmmaker/Writer
541 550-7495
Here are a few samples from past projects, I hope you enjoy them!
This is the trailer from my documentary film about the women
of the early 20th Century Wild West Shows and Rodeos.
A clip from the first family documentary I did.
It featured my aunt and my family memories.
Lala DeLude "A typical Oregonian cowgirl"
as she would say in her own words, recalls
the first pony she bought for her children.
