Sacred Stories

Honoring Loved Ones & Preserving Their Stories

Legacy Film – Our Signature Product

Who do you know that might be celebrating a special birthday, anniversary, or retirement? Do you have a loved one with a unique story to share? What wisdom do you have to share with the world? We want to partner with you to capture the people & stories most meaningful to you.

Legacy Film Process

Step 1 – Pre-Production

We’ll meet with you to determine your project-specific scope & goals. You will complete a pre-production worksheet to help us get started and gather photographs to be used in the production phase. We’ll schedule the interview.

Step 2 – Interview / Filming Day (Production)

We will conduct a personal interview on film.  We provide a skilled interviewer with excellent questions to serve as your guide through the whole process. We bring professional video equipment, audio equipment, and lighting. The interview will be completed in one or two visits at a location of your choosing. Non-English-speaking translators are available for a fee upon request.

Step 3- Post-Production

We will use photographs you provide, special music, and stories collected from our interview to produce a professionally edited 30+ minute digital film that will then be delivered to you for review.  With your permission, we may request to share pieces of the stories we’ve created together on social media.

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FAQs about our Legacy Film

A Legacy Film is an investment that appreciates over time. Each project is custom-designed.  The final cost is determined by the scope of the project, the number of subjects to be interviewed, additional filming locations, travel, etc.  Often a Legacy Film is commissioned as a gift — for a holiday, special birthday, anniversary, or milestone event. Click here for a free consultation & estimate.
We work with you to determine a filming location that is comfortable for you– most often at your or your loved ones’ home.  Sacred Stories, LLC is based in Austin, TX.  Travel & other associated fees outside of a 30-mile radius are at the expense of the customer. (In some instances, we will also conduct the interview virtually. Call for pricing options.)
We’ll meet with you & your loved one to determine your project-specific scope & goals. You will complete a pre-production worksheet to help us make sure we are covering everything you would like included in the video. We carefully select the questions for your loved ones as we prepare for the interview.  These questions can be provided in advance, though we prefer to conduct an unrehearsed interview.  We respect your role in determining what is included in the final project, and we respect the privacy of the person being interviewed and of your family.  We try to be very thoughtful about how the film is put together.
After you receive the password-protected digital video, you will have 5 business days to make changes.  Major changes to the completed video may incur an additional charge.  Once the final invoice is sent & payment is received, you & your family will have full access to download the video for your own storage purposes.  DVDs and USB products are available for purchase upon request.
From pre-production to the end of the project, we allow about 6 weeks. This includes scheduling the interview, carefully selecting music, adding photos provided by the customer, and editing the 3-5 hours of interview footage.
We aim to capture themes of a life and draw out various moments throughout one’s personal history. While there is no way to capture a life on film, the final video touches on key events in a life.
A personal historian is a professional who can handle your book or video from beginning to end.  Often this is a project that has been put off, and we want to help you see it through in a meaningful way. Sacred Stories, LLC specializes in video production, though we are happy to refer you to memoir writers in your area.  Our personal historians are genuinely interested in your story which creates a more authentic product.
As Mark Twain once said, “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility.”  Every life is a story worth sharing, and all of us, no matter the age, have had to face the challenges and joys of life. The process of creating a Legacy Film can be beneficial to you & your loved ones for generations to come.
Personal History is stories from a life.  The Legacy Films produced by Sacred Stories, LLC capture the essence of a life. These films highlight some experiences, beliefs, observations about life, wishes, and feelings in a coherent and compelling narrative.  A genealogy is a factual account of the descent of a person, family or group.

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