One of the greatest ways to celebrate the life of someone who has passed away is with a custom-made Tribute Video.
Created from photos, videos, and beautiful music, a properly produced Tribute Memorial Funeral Video will bring your loved one into everyone's heart. A Tribute Video can be made about the person after they've passed on ... or with their participation while they're still here.
Here's a few examples
Your Tribute Video will look great on the big screen at the service
Your Tribute Video can also be watched by out-of-town guests, family and friends on their smart phones and tablets. Your video can be streamed by the whole world on Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Instagram. Your Tribute Video can represent you or your loved one forever.
Celebrating loved ones is a perfect job for video.
Attendees will enjoy your moving image photo montage with beautiful music, or seeing that old family camcorder and film footage edited into a short video showing before, during and after the service.
A Tribute Video provides a beautiful way to honour someone at a funeral or celebration of life.
But its value doesn't have to end there. The photographs, stories, music and memories you've gathered are part of your family's history. They can help children understand their grandparents. They can help grandchildren know the people who came before them. And they can ensure that important memories don't disappear simply because the person who carried those memories is no longer here to tell them.
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TRIBUTE VIDEO WORKSHEET
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What's in the Tribute Video Worksheet?
The free Tribute Video Worksheet is a practical guide for gathering the essential ingredients needed to create a meaningful video celebrating the life of someone who has died or is nearing the end of life.
It walks you through collecting photographs from childhood through recent years; selecting two to five meaningful songs; gathering key biographical details such as family, education, career, relationships, accomplishments and places lived; capturing the personality behind the facts through favorite memories, stories, interests and the qualities that made the person unique; and identifying the people, places and occasions shown in important photographs.
The final checklist helps ensure that the most important photos, music, life details and personal memories have been gathered as you are submitting materials for your Tribute Video.
Tribute Videos come in two varieties: "About" or "With".
The About variety is usually produced after someone has passed away and is compiled from photos and existing video of the person.
The With variety is produced before someone passes away and they are included in the filmmaking process, usually acting as the main storyteller.
Both are powerful productions for a Memorial Service, Funeral, Wake, Shivah, or Celebration of Life. The With variety, of course, takes some forethought and work before someone is closer to their passing.
Often clients share with us that telling their own story is the perfect activity for coming to terms with their own approaching death.
Steps for Arranging A Tribute Video
Turn-around time can be a significant factor for producing tribute videos for funerals and memorials. Being organized makes it more likely you'll have a beautiful custom tribute video in time for your event. Contact us as quick as possible should you want to use video to bring more life to your loved one's last event.
Download the free Tribute Video Worksheet
Decide if the person the Tribute Video is about is willing and able to participate in the making of the video, perhaps being interviewed about their life, helping to choose photos and identify faces.
Engage family and friends in submitting relevant visuals, like paper print photos and albums, digital photos, old films and camcorder tapes.
Choose inspiring music and make a list of songs.
Complete and return biographical details about the person featured in the Tribute Video.
Decide if there are any titles, on screen text words that you’d like added to the video.
Explore the technology at the venue you want to show the Tribute Video. Check out the big TV or projector & screen combo, sound system, and the necessary input cables needed to play your video from a laptop computer.
Set up a free consultation to strategize and avoid frustration.
FREE DOWNLOAD
TRIBUTE VIDEO WORKSHEET
A detailed tool to help you get organized, reduce overwhelm, and honour your loved one in a beautiful custom Tribute Video.
We'll keep your info safe! Privacy Policy
At Heirloom Films, we believe that every life has a story worth preserving.
If you would like help turning your photographs, music, memories and family history into a meaningful custom Tribute Video, we'd be honoured to help.
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