Every Heirloom Video project is custom. Every storyteller is unique, and every client has different priorities for what needs to be captured, and what product comes out in the end.

Let's sit down for a free initial consultation, and get to know more about each other and how we can preserve a life.

We can enhance your video with cherished pictures, family movie clips, photographs of beloved keepsakes, or music chosen to go with the theme of your project.

And it’s all convenient and comfortable, since we come to you!

When it’s all ready to watch, you receive the Master Copy of your legacy video in digital format. Copy it as many times as you like — digital files don’t degrade with copying like old media! Share them with family and friends. And, of course, digital copies are easy to store in securely and safely

Every Heirloom Video by Cygnals biography project includes:

• High-quality HD video presentation of your storyteller’s biography

• Clear, close sound

• Pre-interview with your storyteller

• On-site recording with two or more cameras

• Being interviewed by Scott Simpson

• Background music

• Your digital images

• Your digitized family movie clips

• Delivery on USB drive in decorative case

• Video file format of your choice, but typically MP4 with AVC/AAC compression (suitable for YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.)

Add-ons to consider:

• Transcripts of all interviews — useful if you’d ever like to make a book, or share text with others

• Audio presentations — how about a podcast about your relative, broken down into smaller episodes you can listen to in the car with the kids?

• Raw Video — it’s the Media Hoarder in me, thinking maybe there’ll be something in the full recording that didn’t make the final cut, or a future technology that can squeeze more magic out of old video

• Digitize your old media — we can turn your old tapes into digital video files, and old photographs into shareable JPG files

Radical Acts of Remembering

Don’t limit your thinking to sit-down interviews. I won’t.

Is Grandma the greatest cook the family has ever known? Why not get a few generations in the kitchen and share stories about family recipes while you cook a favourite recipe together.

Did Dad turn the family business from a mess of papers on the dining room table into a great big success? Let’s record that story, so the values and lessons that led him to success can be passed along with his assets to successors.

Have a favourite photo album full of great stories? Sit down with a great storyteller and walk down memory lane together. We can include Ken Burns-style close-ups of the photos in the video.