Heirloom Films. Get the most amazing film ever made . . . The Movie About You!
Wednesday, 21 April 2010 08:45
Heirloom Films Video and Storybooks Services
Does the world know who you are?
We each came here to do or say something special.
No matter who you are, you will touch the world in your own unique way.
Heirloom Films helps you share with the world who you are - now and forever.
For seniors and families we help you celebrate and share your life stories, family history, wisdom, and blessings. We make sure your photos, films, and mementos survive to delight the future.
For business people we help you personally connect to the entire world with web video so your next clients can know you, like you, trust you, and do business with you sooner.
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Your life stories, family history, photos and mementos can be made into the the most amazing film you've ever seen...The Movie About You!
Heirloom Films is a producer of family history videos for kids, and your family.
Your search for family will give the next generation something to find. It could be a print storybook like a scrapbook or a video.
Life story videos capture and preserve forever your life stories, familly history, wisdom, blessings, photos and mementos on DVD and internet video - for the next generation to cherish.
With fun and simple video interviews, you and your parents can speak directly to your loved ones, giving them personal messages that will warm their hearts forever. More importantly, you could find a sense of completion and fulfillment by having said and recorded the most important things. Our clients say their family members are thrilled when receiving their family history videos.
Our video biographer and personal historian is a skilled interviewer. You will receive a list of basic questions to help you easily tell your life story. During enjoyable video interview sessions, your stories, photos, films, slides, mementos, and even your favourite music are recorded. Then you’ll have a movie your loved ones will enjoy watching and be proud to show for decades. Your Heirloom Film life story video or family history video will serve as an irreplaceable storehouse of family information, identity, and values.
And what to do with old photos? Get Heirloom Films photo scanning services so those faces will be alive forever.
Heirloom Films will help you pass on your family's treasure with
Streaming web video including Youtube, Google, Myspace, Facebook, and Vimeo
PowerPoint Presentations
Film, slides, and tape conversion to digital video
Family History Videos: A personal investment
Saturday, 18 December 2010 03:17
Recently a client and I were reminiscing about our life story video project that we screened publicly. It was The Story of Dr. Hellmut May. We showed it at a Vancouver golf and country club for an audience of 250 people from the Canadian figure skating community. The crowd loved it. But what they couldn't know was how much time and effort and money my client, Andrea May had invested into the project. She wanted to make this life story video because she really loves and honours her husband. And she did it because she truly feels that Hellmut May's story will inspire others. I happen to agree with her.
As a video biographer and personal historian, I pray that when my phone rings, it's someone who is really ready to do what it takes to make a great family heirloom film. Let me give you an example: In the final collection of DVDs for the May project I had captured more than 800 photos and integrated them into the video. Sure that was a lot of labour for me to do. But more importantly, my client spent just as much time if not more locating, acquiring, sorting, labeling, and explaining all those photos. In fact, it took us three years to produce the first draft. But my client says it was worth waiting for and it could not have happened nor would it have been as wonderful had it not been for Andrea's passion.
Of course, there a many ways to speed up the process and Heirloom Films will handle most of the details for you. But making a life story video is a very personal process. So when you call me up and want to start making your movie, I'm going to ask if you know what you're getting into!
I feel humbled and grateful for the honour and pleasure of working with passionate people who are willing to work along with me in creating meaningful family history videos and life story videos for the future.
When I'm interviewing someone, it's my job to listen. listen. listen.
I find other people fascinating and I love to ask people personal questions. There are three particular questions that I usually ask that most people would never dare utter to another human being...but that's a subject for another day.
The human brain never really loses memories, it just forgets where they're filed. So I use lots of memory joggers. For example, if your mother or grandmother is 80 years old, she was born in 1930. That was one year after the Stock Market Crash in October 1929. Her toddler years and school grades 1 - 4 were lived in the Great Depression, when money was very scarce and her family was probably struggling just to put food on the table. When she was 10 years old, Hitler had just invaded Poland and World War II began. When she was 20, it was 1950 and televisions were arriving in homes on her street. And she had probably started dating... what was his name again? Did he become your father or grandfather? How did they meet? Where did they go on their first date? How did he propose? Oh yes, and tell me about that wedding gown!
It usually takes me less than five minutes to take a person from that quiet, reserved, uncertain-what-to-say place to a full-blown long-version story, complete with tears, laughter, and even a few long forgotten whispered secrets.
There is definately more to her than you've heard so far.
Don't you want to know what she's never told you ?
Listen. Listen. Listen. [and record it!]
Cory Bretz Video Biographer & Personal Historian
The Crash of the Comet Jet Airliner
Monday, 13 December 2010 07:35
It happened in Karachi Pakistan in March 1953.
My client was only 10 years old when it happened. Her father Captain North Sawle had logged thousands of hours as a seasoned bushpilot and commercial flyer. But only he and Captain Charles Pentland really know for sure what occured on that runway when The Empress of Hawaii crashed and burned. Was it pilot error or a manufacturer's defect in the de Havallnd Comet? Heirloom Films is thrilled to tell the story of how two brave pilots were exonerated years later. This video biography and family history film has all the usual ingredients: life stories, family history, wisdom, and blessings, not to mention love and adventure!
