DIRECTOR’S CUT
A life beautifully told
Silent photograph montages for funeral services, made from the images of your life

You find the images.
We will do the rest.
Leave it with us.

We make montages of still photographs, selected and ordered and graded, cut to loop with no end card. They are delivered with no soundtrack, so the hymn, the piper, the eulogy and the recording of his or her voice all run over the top without clashing. One file plays autonomously on every screen in the building at once, all day, untouched.

The scale of it

A life of 75 years. Nineteen minutes.

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A life of 75 years is 39,420,000 minutes. On this line, nineteen of them would be thinner than the line itself.

The nineteen minutes that hold the rest
No soundtrack

Nothing collides.

The montage is delivered mute. Live music, a piper, a granddaughter reading, a recording of him telling the same story again. All of it runs over the top. The same file plays in the chapel and the lounge and at the wake without sound bleeding between rooms, and nobody has to find the mute button on a chapel remote.

Nineteen minutes

Long enough for eight decades.

Ninety seconds of five second dissolves shows about eighteen photographs. Nineteen minutes at ten to fourteen seconds a frame shows around ninety five, grouped by era, and it loops with no seam. It can run through the service, through the wake, and out the door.

11,438
Minutes of lives edited to date

Where to begin…

Prices in NZD, GST included  ·  Rush delivery $380

Portrait

$890 10:00 · ~50 photographs · delivered in 48 hours

For a smaller collection, or a service that is 4-5 days away. Fifty photographs is not a lesser life - it is a tighter edit. Portrait gets the same grade, the same ten-to-fourteen-second pacing and the same seamless loop as everything we make, at a length that suits a modest collection or a tight timeline. Rush delivery inside 24 hours is $380.

Scanning of up to 60 originals, returned untouched
Grade and restoration of tired photographs
Seamless loop, no end card
USB plus a private family link, tested before the day

Feature

$1,650 19:00 · ~95 photographs · delivered in 5 days

The house standard, and the reason we exist. Ninety-five photographs, ordered into the chapters of a life - the childhood there are only six pictures of, the wedding, the working years, the grandchildren, last summer. Home video and a voice woven in as silent picture where you have it. It runs through the service and is still running at the wake.

Scanning of up to 250 originals, returned untouched
Full grade so every era sits in one reel
Chapters ordered with you, one round of changes included
Home video and voice included as silent picture
USB plus a private family link
Your choice of ending: the slow fade, or the endless loop

Archive

Currently unavailable 30:00+ · super 8, VHS, slides, everything

For the family that has everything: the slide carousels, the super 8 reels, the VHS of the 1987 Christmas, the biscuit tins. Everything digitised at archive resolution, damaged photographs fully restored, and the whole collection returned to you as an organised digital archive alongside the montage itself. This is the version families keep copying for each other decades later.

Everything in Feature
Super 8, VHS and slide digitisation at archive resolution
Full restoration of damaged and faded photographs
The complete organised digital archive, yours to keep
A private link the family holds permanently
Runtime built to your service, 30 minutes and beyond

Tell us what you have.
We will do the rest.

If the photographs are in a shoebox and nothing is scanned, that is the usual situation and it is fine. Call and say the service date. We will tell you in a minute whether it can be done.