Old Photos and Keepsakes in the Film
In many families, there's a box somewhere: photo albums, loose prints, maybe a few reels of Super 8 film, letters, postcards. Often nobody quite remembers what's actually in it.
Sifting through the material before filming begins
Before the filming day, we go through the existing material together. Not everything needs to make it into the film, but a lot of it can be worked in: as an insert over the picture, as a starting point for a question in conversation, sometimes as its own short section.
What tends to work well
Photos, old footage, letters, certificates, documents, anything that carries a story. Even damaged or faded material can find its place; it doesn't need to be perfectly preserved to tell something.
A format built for more material
Anyone who wants to bring in a lot of archive material is well suited to the Legacy format: researching and integrating up to 40 photos, old footage, and other keepsakes is already part of the process there. More on this: Films.