Getting Started With Your Family History Film

FAMILY HISTORY FILMMAKER'S TO DO LIST
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1. Setup online storage for script, footage, photos, audio, and video clips
   
   

2. Review image resolution requirements  and test scanning of paper photos, developing, and importing of jpgs to script document as thumbnail placeholders for cutlines. Plan, shoot and/or acquire your B Roll or cutaway video. Arrange for digitization of any old films and magnetic tape video.  Acquire source of royalty-free buyout music and sound effects and stock video footage, backgrounds, and titling. 
   
   

3. Create organizational structure and naming system for images, video, and sound. 
   
   

4. Setup free online family tree and share with project partners.
   
   

5. Create and share with project partners main script Document where text can be added, written, edited, reviewed, and queued up for narration in the film. 
   
   

6. Employ automatic Table of Contents function using Headings for Section Titles and subsections in your Script document . 
   
   

7. Determine Editing, Suggestions, Re-Write, and Review process.
   
   

8. Schedule some interviewing, transcribing, writing sessions, alone or with a project partner. Use YouTube to create transcript document. Pick dialogue clips from transcript. Write narration. 
   
   

9. Determine film output specifications and set up video editing design program or outsource a video editor. Get editing. 
   
   

10. Review First Draft, Second Draft, and Final Version before sharing publicly. Upload to a public video streaming site. Share links and upload elsewhere. Host a Debut Screening Party.