Tim Price
A new way of recording for ever precious family memories has been developed by Kendal-based Tim Price, aged 56. It is designed for older people to record their memories to pass down a permanent record to younger family members.
Our family video has been designed for people to create a living legacy of their memories for present and future generations to watch and listen to on their phones, laptops, tablets and smart televisions.
“This is not a family tree research process”, explains Tim. “This video process gives people a visual and spoken chance to pass down their own memories or their own life and family for future generations of the same family to enjoy forever.”
Filmed and recorded in the comfort of the participant’s own home, Tim takes his clients through a series of pre-selected questions so that intimate memories can be shared with immediate family members for generations to come.
“This is designed to be a living but lasting memory”, Tim continues. “Where people have photographs or family documents, these can be slotted into the narrative.”
There is no fixed agenda. People can choose own topics or can answer questions from other family members.
The whole process takes about a week from the initial agreement on the questions to be asked and answered to the filming and recording, possible researching and then the editing. The end result is either a one, one-and-half or two-hour recording which can be viewed on suitable equipment.
“I want people to relax, which is why I come to their own homes, film and record them where they feel most comfortable”, adds Tim. “But where some of the memories might include references to well known or famous people, I will offer historical corroboration and include pictures that may be in the public domain.
“This is a very personalised memoir and not one that is going to be viewed in the public domain. This means that questions can be personal and tailored quite precisely to what relatives may want to know. Obviously, you cannot fit into two hours all the memories that people have that maybe stretch over 70 years or more.
One of the emphases that Tim is keen to point out is that this service is very different from the well-known formular of ancestry programmes on TV, or the approach taken by ancestry magazines. The resulting video from Our Family Video is a very personal memoir for people of the same family to listen to and share for future generations to come.
These are not memories that can be found on dusty parish records, but recollections of people about their close family presented in a way that will be a permanent record”, Tim concludes.