Every life is built in storeys. The Ground Floor: Childhood, early memories, roots, and where they came from. The Middle Storeys: Twenties, career choices, finding love, building businesses, raising families, and navigating the busy middle of life.The Upper Storeys: True wisdom, the view from the top, perspective, and looking back over the entire structure.
1. Story Session: $995.00
A complete story, told in brief. Every Storeykeeper film moves through all three floors of a life — the Ground Floor of childhood and roots, the Middle Storeys of career and family, the Upper Storeys of wisdom and perspective. Story Session covers all three with focused, essential questions — a full arc, efficiently told.
Includes:
- Pre-interview planning call
- 45-60 minute sit down interview, take a break at 30 minutes
- Finished 12-15 minute film.
- One location
- Two-camera setup
- Professional audio and lighting
- Music Transitions
- Up to 15 photos
- Private web link
- One USB/memory stick
2. Signature Legacy Film: $1,995.00
The full structure, richly explored. More time on each floor means more of the stories that make your family’s history distinct — not just what happened, but what it felt like.
Includes:
- Pre-interview planning call
- 1 – 2 hour interview session can break every 30 minutes.
- Two cameras
- Professional audio and Lighting
- Finished 18-22 minute family film
- Up to 25 photos
- Titles, light music, photos inserted if provided
- Private web delivery
- One keepsake USB drive
3. Heirloom Documentary: $3,500.00
Every floor, deeply explored. The most complete telling we offer — extended time on each level of the story, plus the home, the setting, and the details that surround it.
Includes:
- Typically 3-4 hours
- Main interview plus family/home/b-roll details
- Photos, letters, documents, old home movies if supplied
- Two cameras
- Professional audio
- Lighting
- finished 30-40 minute film
- Private web link
- 1 keepsake drive
- Archival master file, the rough cut
When We arrive
The first thing that will happen is introductions. We will discuss where the interview will take place find the most optimal spot for the setup of our equipment and where you are comfortable. We are happy to take some footage of the space that can be used in the film that highlight where you live. Setup will take around 30 minutes. We film with 2 cameras on tripods and either two lights or one light and a reflector. We use a wireless lavalier microphone that attaches unobtrusively to your clothing. Most people don’t understand how critical sound is to the process and it’s why we are so meticulous about it. Once we have everything set up we will have you seated so that we can make final lighting adjustments and check the audio signal.
Photo Prep
Please have all your digital photos gathered into a single folder on your computer desktop or tablet before I arrive. I will bring a portable media drive to copy them directly while I set up the equipment—no uploading required!
The number of photos is indicated in each price package. Actual photos can be scanned on site too.
Revision Passes
Each film includes a set number of revision passes. A revision pass is one round of requested changes sent together. Revision passes cover refinements such as trimming sections, adjusting audio, swapping photos, or fixing factual details (names, dates, captions).
Larger changes that alter the structure or direction of the film may fall outside the included passes. If that happens, I’ll let you know before any additional costs apply.
Additional revision pass: +$95