Linda Hollender commissioned us to capture her father’s life story. We usually shot videos, but Robert was reluctant to speak on camera.
Instead, we used a microphone and a smartphone to record his story, which we transcribed and assembled into a book with photos that he gave away to friends for his birthday party that year.
Last year, Linda gave away copies at his memorial service.
See tellyourstory.productions/robert-hollander/
The Rocket Norton Vault
I worked with Vancouver musician and author Rocket Norton for decades on many projects, including concert promotions, publishing his books, selling his How to Coach Baseball to Kids video course, and driving a Lincoln Town Car for his driving service.
Much of that I collected into a multimedia portal called The Rocket Norton Vault.
I also helped promote three cancer benefit concerts related to his battle with cancer. Rocket organized and performed at the first two concerts. The one this year served as a memorial.
I had the honour of creating a memorial video shown at the concert.
Preserve Your Personal and Family Stories
My encouragement is for you to capture the stories of your loved ones while they can still share. Our time on earth is fleeting.
You can start with taking photos, video, and audio with your SmartPhone at family gatherings. I have created videos on the process in the past and am working with new resources to help you.
I am also available to craft new and existing content into story productions.
You can create folders on Google Drive to start organizing the media for sharing and using for Story Productions
You can name the folders something that makes sense to you.
Here is a sample:
Aunt Martha Miles
Notes
Videos
Early Days
Wedding
Adventures
…
Photos
Category 1
Category 2
Audio Recordings
Document
Story Productions
When you are ready, you can assemble the photos, video, audio, and notes into media for sharing.
I have created presentations in the following forms:
Print Book
eBook
FlipBook
Video clips
Audio
Slide presentations for weddings, anniversaries, and memmorials.
Multimedia Digital Experience Edition
Website
Blog post
Social media posts.
…
Story Production Tools
I use a lot of tools, including PhotoShop (images), FinalCut Pro (video), ClarityScribe (transcription, AI writing), Atticus (writing, print and eBook formatting), Heyzine (flipbooks), Kartra (membership portals, email, video hosting), WordPress (websites), and others to create Multimedia Story Productions.
Greg Dixon Is Available to Help
I am available to help coach you through the collection of the stories and crafting them into story productions.
Merritt is a town of around seven thousand people three hours north-east of Vancouver that was the home of a large county-music festival. There are murals of county stars on buildings downtown.
The town has many families with a long history in Merritt including a family from the Basque region of Spain who arrived over fifty years ago.
There are also many First Nations groups doing amazing things with health and friendship centres.
Greg and his Doug drive elders from remote communities to meetings, medical appointments, and dental appointments in facilities that they created. The also help drive children to the library, pool, and other evens in the region.
Greg will conduct video and audio interviews and assemble photos to tell the stories.
