Individuals
Leave a Legacy
Share your story, preserve your memories, and create a lasting legacy for the people you love. Through a thoughtful, guided process, we help you shape your experiences into a meaningful film your family will cherish. We handle every step — from in-depth conversations and interview guidance to crafting a beautifully edited final piece — so you can simply show up as yourself. With extensive preparation and close collaboration, we approach every project as consultants and storytellers first, creating a comfortable, supportive experience from beginning to end.
The DMB Approach
DISCOVERY
Every project is thoughtfully customized for the families we serve. Discovery is where we listen, learn what’s most meaningful to you, and shape a thoughtful plan so the process feels easy from the start.
PREP
After you fill out a brief questionnaire, we will spend time during a pre-interview conversation to understand the stories you want to tell so that we ask the perfect questions on filming day.
FILM
We typically film in our interviewee’s home and work with the space you have. Depending on the length of the interview and the number of interviewees, we might be there a half-day, full-day, or multiple days.
EDIT
Based on your goals and the number of photos you want to include we will edit together a first draft of your film. After getting your feedback, we will finalize the film, which often includes music and graphics, and save it to both a hard drive and in the cloud.
Preserve Your Family’s Story For Future Generations.
Our Clients
Thank you, thank you, thank you! No one could’ve put so much time, care, and research into producing this masterpiece. I am so very grateful to your team and owe you all such a big thanks! There’s only one word to describe this masterpiece - FLAWLESS!
I have worked with DMB Pictures on two different family projects and am really happy with the results. Debbie is a true professional, very personable behind the camera, and refreshingly easy to work with. She not only understood the video legacies I wanted to create but also added to them in ways we had not imagined that made the final products better than I could have hoped for. Well worth every penny!
For over 20 years, I had been wanting to put my grandfather’s 16 mm home movies in an accessible format to share with my family. They had the images digitized and combined them with a tape recording of my father and uncle narrating the movies in 2001. DMB was very creative, making many excellent suggestions for enhancing the presentation. It was tremendous fun doing this project with them and my family is thrilled.
The video was a HUGE hit! There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. I don’t think anyone expected that it would turn out so beautifully. Thank you so much for creating a beautiful representation of my grandmother’s life - and our life with her! We’ll treasure this video forever.
Thank you for the excellent video history you made of me. My family and I watched it twice in one day and everyone (19 people) thoroughly enjoyed it (including me!) The archival material you researched and inserted was brilliant – a testimony to your intelligence and desire to make my history complete. With much appreciation and admiration -
Our children gave us one of the most meaningful and wonderful gifts anyone can receive. It is a video of our lives. We truly appreciate the professional services of Debbie Brodsky and DMB Pictures. Yes, this project is complex and time-consuming, but Debbie was very supportive and attentive during the whole process. The result speaks for itself. Our granddaughter said, "I am so inspired." Our lives have been a wonderful journey and now we can share many aspects of that journey with our children, grandchildren, and future generations. What a legacy!
We have always been involved in preserving our family's history with photos, a family website, and regular family reunions. But we never had my mom’s stories all recorded in one place. Debbie and DMB Pictures were wonderful to work with! They made the process so easy. They took the time to get to know my mom before they ever turned on a camera. We are thrilled with the result! My Mom, who rarely gets emotional, shed some tears while watching the film. My sisters and I, as well as our extended family, will treasure this film for years to come.
