Three mornings together
The sessions are the first gift. Your loved one settled in a comfortable chair, your family across from them, asking about their life while every word is captured in studio sound.
Recorded life stories · Shoreline, Washington
The stories only they can tell.
Living Archive Media records your loved one telling the story of their life. A professional studio, a comfortable chair, warm light and your family in the room asking the questions.
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What your family receives
One recording. Five things your family keeps for good.
The film
An edited, color graded film of their life story, told chapter by chapter in their own words. Made to be watched together, more than once.
The book
Every session transcribed word for word. Paper outlasts every file format ever invented, and it belongs on a shelf where the grandkids will find it.
Their voice
A voice model built from the clearest passages of the sessions, so it carries the way they actually sound when they talk. Your family owns it outright.
A way to keep asking
A private keepsake your family can talk with. Ask how they met, and it answers in their voice, the way they answered it in the room, drawn from what they said on tape.
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Three ways to do this well
Same room, same care, same people. The difference is how far the finished work goes.
The Story
$4,500
- Three half-day recording sessions
- A chapter cut film of about an hour
- The complete written transcript
- Archival files on two drives
Most families choose this
The Legacy
$8,500
- Everything in The Story
- The film grows to ninety minutes
- Their voice, preserved
- The private keepsake your family can talk with
- The transcript edited, printed, and bound
The Heirloom
$15,000
- Everything in The Legacy
- A fourth session day
- Interviews with spouse and siblings
- A documentary cut with family photos and music
- Additional keepsake devices for siblings
- A private premiere screening at the studio
Half of the package books your dates. The rest is due before delivery. Agreements, releases, and consent forms: [ATTORNEY].
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How it works
Three steps. About six weeks from the first call to the reveal.
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Tell us about them
You fill out one form. The names in the family, the chapters of their life, anything to steer around, anything to be sure we cover. From that we build the question list, with your names in it.
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Three mornings of recording
Sessions run in the morning, when energy and memory are at their best, with real breaks. Your family asks. Our producer keeps it comfortable and on track. Nothing is recorded that they do not want recorded.
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The reveal
We edit the film, print the book, and build the voice and the keepsake. Then your family gets everything, and you watch it together.
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Our promise
This only works if it is done with respect, so we put these four in writing before anything is recorded.
They see every question first
Your loved one reads the list before we record, strikes anything they would rather not discuss, and can stop whenever they want. Whatever they want removed comes out.
It stays inside what they said
The keepsake is labeled plainly as a recording of their words. Every answer comes from the sessions and points back to the moment they said it, and when they never covered something it tells you so instead of filling the gap.
Your family owns everything
The film, the book, the voice, the keepsake. All of it belongs to your family. We keep nothing and use nothing without your written permission.
There is always an off switch
Any time your family wants the voice or the keepsake gone, it is deleted. Completely and permanently. No questions asked.
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Begin
Tell us who you are thinking of. We call you back for a short conversation. No pressure in it.
If it is a fit, we schedule around your loved one's best mornings. If it is not, we will say so.