Lavender Lane Media

Life Stories: the modern film alternative to writing a memoir

If you or someone you know has ever toyed with the idea of writing a memoir, then a Lavender Lane Life Story can offer a visually powerful and simple alternative.

What is a Life Story?

Life Stories by Lavender Lane Media are beautiful memoir films. Each one captures someone’s life story through a journalistic interview and creative incorporation of legacy images and video supplied by the person directly, or by family and friends. The final films tend to be from 30 to 50 minutes in length, or even 60 to 110 minutes for couples.

Filmmaker Brian Lavender introduces the concept of Life Stories.

Excerpts from Holly’s Life Story, used with permission.

Three Easy Steps to Creating A Life Story With Lavender Lane Media

Pre-production

Our envisioning session allows us to explore the most important values that attract customers to your business. This is easily done in a telephone or online consultation.

The Interview

Onsite interviews are prompted to bring out the very best ideas. They’re engaging conversations about what matters most in life: people, places and reflections.

Post-production

Much time is invested in fashioning an enjoyable and unique living portrait that increases in its emotional value over time.

Every Life Story

production includes:

Pre-planning virtual conversational support and guidance
Location evaluation and professional lighting
Professional audio capture
High quality video interview capture using 4k-capable professional video equipment
Professional journalistic interview
Other on-location video capture
Electronic media transfer facilitation
Professional editing
Early draft review and a complete set of revisions
electronic and flash drive delivery options
licensed music

Total production cost for a Personal Life Story:

$3680

+ applicable taxes

Also available:
an optional ~5 minute edit from final feature for special occasions

Additional options:
extra interviews, extended filming time, destination locations, aerial footage, enhanced resolution.

Each Life Story is delivered via download link and high-speed USB drive — Each Life Story is delivered via download link and/or high-speed USB drive

Couples' Life Stories are popular with families looking to preserve the backstory of two lives that became joined. This variation on a Life Story will usually include separate interviews as well as a collaborative session.
Widen the portrait by including up to 20 voices from family and friends. The preferred method is to throw a party and invite Lavender Lane Media to set up in a nearby location to record some brief prompted comments.

This is a preview for a Life Documentary that was created in collaboration with the Epple family. It involved approximately 2 generous days of location shooting in Roggen, Colorado, plus 1 day of managing legacy images and 7 days of story development, editing, corrections and publishing. The complete film is about 45 minutes in length.

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What’s bigger than a Life Story?

It’s a Life Documentary.

These are expanded, in-depth feature films that offer unparalleled opportunities to share your story.

Each story is quoted for its specific requirements. For budgets starting at $9k.

In addition to the intentional interview that is the basis for a Life Story, other interviews are conducted throughout the shooting days. These are completed by a storytelling professional in a relaxed and genuine manner.
If your life involves stunning settings, interesting activities or curious habits, then the additional footage that is gathered can lend depth to the story.
The addition of time for Life Documentaries is counted in days. Perhaps they are concentrated in one location or time is spread between two or more. This aspect of the project is highly customizable.