Why make a video scrapbook?

OK...so what’s the big deal? (Here are some great bail-out excuses) Why make a video scrapbook, indeed. Stick a camera in someone’s face and play “60 Minutes”. Grill them on what was this and that like and call it a video scrapbook. Grandma is being a pill about making a video anyway. After all...I can take my time and paste some wonderful memorabilia into a scrapbook and end up with a nice keepsake. Who needs the grief?
Well, tell you what. Spend a few minutes on this page and let us explain some of the hidden benefits. If you don’t agree with our reasons of why make a video scrapbook and that giving birth to a video scrapbook idea of archiving a cherished loved one is worth a bit of extra effort, you can click away and get back to cutting and pasting.

Here is a true story... (It isn’t too unusual whenever you have a camera in your hand and you’re eyeing a potential subject or even when you are “threatening” to make a video of someone.)

Not surprising at all. In fact, one of the first things an elderly person will think when you start talking to them about shooting a video scrapbook is that YOU think they are going to die soon and so you want to get them on video before it is too late! They usually don't even suspect that you'd just like to hear what they have to say!

Now, we have several pieces of scrapbook help in our e-book on how to approach and win over your star and one of the best scrapbook tools to help make convincing your video subject an easy job is to simply say...”Wouldn’t it have been wonderful if you were able to see a film of your great-great-grandfather or grandmother? Think of the connection you could make...the understanding of what it was like to live back then...what they were really like. We’d like your grandchildren to have that opportunity.”

That is pretty powerful and will be very hard for anyone to resist.

And this is one of the many amazing benefits of your creating a a video keepsake of a loved one - one of the many scrapbook tools you'll find here. Let’s sum it up with a quote from our E-book.

We would love to be able to re-capture the personas of those that we have lost---to hear them speak, to hear the stories that we remember as children, tap into their genealogical history once again, hear them philosophize, receive the benefit of their wisdom in a thought provoking way.

We cannot recall many pertinent facts, for instance, of our grandparents’ histories, our fathers’ early years as children, and the circumstances of the transporting of our respective ancestors to the part of the country in which our fathers grew up. We have some recall of the sounds of their voices but over time, it is more and more difficult to remember those sounds.

Why make a video scrapbook? We hope all this explains why we believe this is so important. To be able to preserve some of the personality, the essence of a loved one so generations decades from now can experience them is huge!

Watches and letters are nice to touch and feel but to experience the subtle hand gestures and hear the voice inflections from great great grandma or grandpa is utterly compelling.

Hope you agree.

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