You're an original!
Sure… you might not have invented the light bulb, been born into royalty or been “famous” in your lifetime …but…
Your story is unique, it's interesting, future generations will want to know about it – and we can make it entertaining!
One of our clients has said the video life story we did for him has become his most treasured possession.
This is YOUR opportunity to tell YOUR life story - in YOUR own words - so that generations to come will know who you were, what you did and why you did it. They'll get a feel for the essence of you, something that no photo in a frame could ever do.
This is a chance to begin an oral history for your family so your family know from who and where they have come from.
Most importantly, it's a precious gift to your descendents, and one that only you can give (though that's not totally true as some of our clients are grown children who have given their parents a Life Catchers Gift Certificate to ensure the biography is recorded).
If you…
- Don't have the time to write your life story
- Are not interested in paying a company $15,000 to write it and print it for you
- Want to leave a legacy that has some real oomph to it
- Want to leave a visual and audio record of your life
- Have a desire to give your descendants a sense of self
- Want your life to live on in some small way
- Seek to impact the future
- Wish your own parents or grand parent's or ancestors from hundreds of years ago had recorded information about their lives
- Just want to reminisce about your life and see it in all its glory on your TV screen
- Just want to leave a little of you behind
Then let us help you tell your story in your own words. Let us help you bring it to life on video and DVD.
A Life Catchers' Life Story /Biography is an especially fun (major!) project that we really love to work on…and our past clients seem to really love the whole process too.
We have created a range of questions that will help you focus on and bring alive your life story, so don't worry about having nothing to say! Our team interviews you on camera (it's like a friendly chat in your lounge room for a few hours over two days) and then we carefully and creatively combine photographs, music and more, creating video memories that will be treasured by your family forever.
Sometimes we even end up working on three projects for a family:
- a biography for the husband up until the wedding
- a biography for the wife up until the wedding
- a joint biography that takes up when the two married.
But we most often focus on one person, with the love of their life playing more of a supporting role in the final piece.
Your Life Story will take upwards of a month to complete because of the intensive editing process we use to craft your presentation. This is in addition to the pre-interview preparation and the two part-days we spend with you interviewing and recording the images of the photos and memorabilia you would like included in the final show.
As this is an investment on your behalf (prices begin at $8,000), we also meet with you during the editing process so you can view rough cuts of your personal documentary to ensure it is fulfilling your expectations.
Would you like Life Catchers to help bring your life to life? We'd certainly like to work on it with you.
Where to from here?
Contact us to find out more or reserve your place in our shooting calendar
Visit our Music Library to get some ideas for your background music
If you're a little nervous about being interviewed, visit the Your Questions section and read the interview section to help put yourself at ease.
