What a busy week we’ve had, preparing for the launch of our unique gift service, for Christmas gifts and gifts for special birthdays, in this coming weekend’s visit to Upton Country Park craft fair in Dorset. We’re inviting family visitors, looking for a unique Christmas gift for their loved ones, to visit our two stands at Upton’s beautiful country home and parkland. They’ll enjoy meeting the Remarkable Lives Christmas-and-special-birthday gifts team to see how they can offer their grandparents, parents, or much-loved friends, the chance to star in their own documentary television film about their lives. Our mission is to show that everybody has their own remarkable story to tell; a story we edit and craft into a gift which preserves those unique special memories for the fun of their family, and the education of a younger generation of their children, grandchildren, and friends.
Lights… cameras… Action… Along with our unbeatable value, launch discount price offer, we’re gifting families the chance to record - FOR free - their own audio-visual television Christmas card message. Mum, dad, the entire family, or just the children alone, will star in front of our television cameras, recording season’s greetings in personalised messages to their friends and families. Saving the cost of expensive cards - and even more expensive postage - the Remarkable Lives Christmas card team will film their unique gift cards in front of our traditional Christmas fireplace scene and receive their own free copy of the film to email to everyone they wish to greet at the special time of year.
The preparation for this event follows an equally hectic time with us commissioning a lengthy period of market research, whilst also producing and editing a series of prototype films to refine our interview techniques, and to ensure that our editing process was as fast and efficient as possible. The entire team have been delighted with the quality and content of the Remarkable Lives films produced thus far; a series of moving, emotional, fascinating autobiographical shows which fully prove our firmly held contention that everybody we meet has their own remarkable story to tell and share with their families. Filming those tales… each gift-recipient’s autobiography crafted and preserved on film - has already taken us from our home studio base in Dorset to as far afield as Kent. North Wales and Cornwall, as we visit people and set up our mobile, ‘outside broadcast’ cameras, lights and sound equipment in their own homes.
“It’s the book of my life I always wanted to write – but better because it’s now been filmed,” was one delighted reaction we received from one of our first television ‘celebrities’ to star in their own Remarkable Lives production. “My grandchildren had no idea of what my childhood was like, growing up in London straight after the war. My youngest couldn’t believe that I didn’t have a mobile phone, and that there were only two channels on my TV. Even my grown-up son found it hilarious when he watched the film and discovered that I started work in the 1960s for a weekly pay packet of eight pounds and sixpence.”
We’re hoping that this blog will be the first in a series of stories that will follow not only the travels, trials, tribulations, and success of the Remarkable Lives team but also the unique stories of those whom we film. Over time it will become a unique archive library of memories and life histories of all who receive this special gift of laying down their life stories for family posterity.
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