- 1Your pet
- 2Their story
- 3The film
Your pet
Add their photos and their name — this is what our artists build them from.
What makes a good photo?
- Across their whole life — young, their prime years, and recent ones. This is what gives the film its arc.
- Different places — home, the yard, the park, the beach, a trip. We build the backgrounds from these.
- A few clear ones of their face — so we get their markings and expression right.
- The places and things you'll tell us about — their spot on the couch, the favourite toy, the walk you always did. If you mention it in the next step, a photo of it means we can put the real thing in the film.
- Old, dark or blurry is fine. We clean them up. Don't leave one out because you think it isn't good enough.
Their story
The small, specific things are what make the film feel like them. A sentence each is plenty — there are no wrong answers.
Helps us pitch the film to whoever's going to watch it.
This becomes the opening line of the film.
Sets the tone of the whole film.
So we can put them in a scene together, not side by side.
See an example
"The day we brought her home she was so small she fell asleep in my shoe. She did the same thing every night for years after that — waited by the front door from about five o'clock, and the second she heard the car she'd lose her mind. When my daughter was born she slept under the crib every night for a year. Nobody asked her to. She just decided that was her job."
Yours doesn't need to be long or well written. One real moment beats three general ones.
This becomes the heart of the film.
If you have a photo from that day or that place, — we'll build the scene around it.The film
Last few choices, then we'll take it from here.
This is the closing scene.
A photo of that place makes the ending theirs, not a stock scene.We close the film on this, in your words.