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Families are increasingly choosing to have low-cost DVDs and videos produced for funeral and memorial services to help celebrate the life of their loved one and help family and loved ones deal with their loss. These videos typically are animated slideshows of family photographs augmented with royalty-free music and generic stock footage to obtain a relatively professional look, and with their low cost and quick production turnaround, they're a good choice for many families. A video tribute can not only add a lot of meaning at a memorial service, but can be shared online as well.
What these relatively simple videos do not do very well is really tell the story of a life well lived, pass on the wisdom of previous generations, or in many cases adequately connect our past with our future. Photographs alone, no matter how they're animated or how nice the music is that's playing while they're shown, almost never tell a story. They don't fully communicate the special things a person did, they values they demonstrated, or the purpose they brought to their time with us. In some cases, the right answer may be to do more than a largely "canned" video tribute.
BeehiveSites.com produces the tribute video to commemorate and remember the extraordinary life, the one full of stories and rememberances. We interview family, friends, and co-workers, incorporate home movie footage, and produce a short documentary film of broadcast quality. Working in close cooperation with funeral directors who bring their insight and understanding of the difficult emotional road the family and friends are travelling, we bring caring and understanding to the production process ensuring that not only the final product, but the actual process of creating it are fully consistent with the needs of the family and helpful as part of their bereavement. From the beginning of the production process to the end, we strive to be a part of the network of professionals supporting families in need and not just an emotionally unengaged service provider.
Our extensive work with the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association gives us a unique insight into the needs of families and the deathcare industry that is unique in the film and video world, which is often utterly ignorant to the need in such situations at best. Our unique insight in this area makes BeehiveSites.com one of the only video production companies in the world that can bring not only the technical and artistic capabilities of film production, but the understanding and dedication to families who are struggling with a difficult loss whose needs are put first, no matter what.