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Tell us their birthday.
The questions change with the age. In the first year, we interview you. By fifteen, the questions are theirs, and they can skip any of them.
One child. One year. One film.
Five minutes from the year they were this small.
Littlereel asks a question matched to their age, gathers the videos already on your phone, and cuts a film your family keeps.
How a year becomes a film
You already have the footage. What is missing is the cut.
Once a month, one question. Film the answer when the moment is good. Drop in the rest of the year whenever you think of it. A phone is enough. At the end, the film runs about five minutes.
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Film the answer.
Ten unhurried minutes. Let them leave the question. The aside is often the part you will want at eighteen.
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Add the rest of the year.
Tuesdays, the trip, the thing they made. You do not have to perform a highlight reel.
What belongs in it
The ordinary days are the point.
A finished film holds a handful of answers and the life around them. Birthdays can be in it. They do not have to carry it.
The questions
Written for the age they are, not for a generic child.
Eight questions across the year, with room to write your own. A model can draft more in the same voice when you connect it.
Asked of them. They can skip any question.
They can tell a story now. Ask one thing, then wait.
- What makes you laugh even when you are trying not to?
- Who do you want to sit next to?
- What are you really good at that grownups forget to notice?
The shape of a finished year
About five minutes, paced like a visit.
A model lays the shots in this order. A person can still move them. When the cut is right, it is rendered from that same timeline and handed to you as a file.
- Cold openA day, with no one talking yet.
- TitleTheir name, their age, the year.
- A questionAsked out loud, then their answer.
- The day around itThe footage you already had.
- Another questionSpaced through the months, not stacked.
- An ordinary TuesdayThe part a highlight reel would skip.
- The people around themWhoever they reach for.
- Quiet againA last look, without a question.
- End cardThe file is yours.
The purchase
One child. One year. One film.
$180a year
- Questions across the year, written for their age
- Private storage for up to 180 minutes of footage
- A cut paced toward 5 minutes
- An editor can open the same film before you see it
- A file you download and keep, whether or not you stay
Checkout uses Stripe when billing is connected. Until then, begin a year and the studio opens without a card.
How we hold this
The account belongs to the parent.
Who can watch the footage?
The household on the account, and an editor if a person finishes that film. It is not a gallery, and it is not public.
Do you train on our videos?
No. Customer footage is not used to train public models.
What if we only filmed a little?
The film will be shorter, and it will say so. You can keep adding pieces until you ask for the cut.
What music is under it?
A licensed library, the way a production licenses music. This studio build plays short original beds so the preview is not using someone else’s recording.
What does keeping it mean?
You download a master file. That file is yours. We host a copy while the account is open. Delete a year and the files stored for it go with the year.
Which ages?
From the first year through eighteen. Under one, the interview is with the parent.
For later
A year they can walk back into.
Begin with a birthday. The first question is ready the same day.
Begin their year