Give your loved ones a boost by taking them back to that special place.
By Nico Docherty, Family History Films
A Curated Trip
A trip down memory lane is a key part of the FHF process and an experience that adds immeasurable value to our films and immeasurable joy for the participants. It works like this: We take you or the people special in your life on a journey to the significant places of their past. Our film team captures the trip and the reminiscences along the way. This can be a grand, multi-day overseas trip or a modest drive around the local neighborhood. It can be a private journey for one or a day out for the whole family. It all depends on you and your story.
This is a totally curated affair. In our early conversations with your family, we will discern the places that have special resonance for the key people. The places of significance in one’s life are rarely famous landmarks. Sometimes they are. Our trips have taken us inside 70,000 seater football stadiums and aboard a Balao-class submarine. Yet more often those special locations are ordinary places that mean something because of the unique part they played in your life. It could be the ice cream parlor that your parents used to take you to, or the dance club where they first met. It could be a lecture hall at your former university or your grandparents’ holiday home.
The team with a navy veteran aboard USS Pampanito
The Family History Films Touch
We organize every detail and ensure the trip is a VIP experience. The journey is carefully planned from start to finish by our team and can be a surprise or organized in cooperation with your family. We ensure that the locations are reserved just for us and can organize cameo appearances along the way, from an old friend to an expert ready to answer questions or provide context.
Our team films the whole experience and conducts interviews at the key locations. The footage captured is without doubt the richest and most emotive of the whole project. How could it fail to be? People are moved and delighted to be revisiting these locations and it is a privilege to capture these moments.
Back to school
What A Trip Down Memory Lane Adds
The footage we capture on a family trip adds color and context to the final film. It will often feature as an exciting and separate chapter within the larger story. More important than this, however, is the boost a memory lane trip gives your family members, particularly those in the older generations. Revisiting cherished locations is an invigorating and rewarding experience and one that is a joy to behold. Our trips celebrate places that do not ordinarily receive attention. Our films give the key places in your life the reverence they deserve. They are special to you so they are special to us.
A site of former glories
To discuss what your memory lane trip would look like, or to inquire about a book, film or archive, contact us at jonb@myfamilyhistoryfilm.com.