Create a Video Biography
Did you know that items you already own—digital camera, scanner, editing software—plus a few simple instructions can help you make a video biography? Pick a family-member subject and try for yourself.
Script. Outline key points of your subject’s life. Scan pictures and transfer films to digital format to enhance the story.
Sound. Prepare a list of questions for on-camera interviews. If your subject is deceased, have people read snippets from manuscripts.
Shoot. Film shots of family homesteads, schools, and important places in your subject’s life.
Edit. Put everything together; then screen it for the family or put the video on your family history website.
MAUREEN A. TAYLOR is the author of Capturing Memories: Your Family Story in Photographs (Ancestry, $14.95).
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