If your like me when your kids were or are young you probably or will be preserving all those special moments on some kind of medium( was it still camera, video camera, tape, cassette, or is now, well lets just say digital). So that’s great, you now have a pile of all kinds of media, photos, jpegs, film, video etc... OK first off I am going to tell you what you should have done all those years ago or if you are lucky enough what you still can do when recording your children. Step one prepare to shoot the kids....(well not literally).

1. Familiarize yourself with your gear. It be a shame to have those first steps out of focus or be all dark when viewing it back.
2. Plan to tell a story. Tell us where and when you are shooting. Develop the story, what happens and to who. Have an ending, sum things up.
3. Involve the family have them shoot some, under direction. This way you get into the video also.
4. Shoot lots of stuff, plan to edit latter.
5. Have fun, enjoy what ever it is your doing. Don’t let recording the event become the event, unless you decide you want to make a movie with the family.
6. Make a Movie, Its a great activity, plan it ahead of time, perhaps write some things down and involve the whole family in the editing.
7. Don’t forget the little things, extra and charged batteries, maybe a tripod, even a light and extra tape or memory cards.
8. Transfer the footage to your computer as soon as you can after the shoot. Safety....
9. Once its edited have a social screening, invite the relatives, serve booze if appropriate before the presentation (IT WILL MAKE THINGS JUST SEEM BETTER).
10. Make back up copies.

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