My Services

Trevor is joined by Lisa Morin for a recording in Webb City, Missouri, 2024

Do you have family stories you want to preserve?

Maybe you are interested in creating a podcast?

The Recollection Agency can help.

PRESERVING A MEMOIR

Do you have a story you want to preserve about one chapter of your life? Consider a memoir recording. For a flat fee, I’ll interview you and yours for up to three hours. I may edit distinct stories into individual tracks for easier access and future listens back to favorite memories. How would you use such recordings? Consider sharing them on social media or creating a digital holiday card. Your memoir can be audio-only, audio + visual, or audio + still image slideshow. Recordings can happen either in-person or remotely. Your final audio will be up to 60 minutes.

Audio Memoirs

Pam K. on breaking one of her mom’s beloved pilsner glasses.
Wanda B on black cemeteries.

LIFE STORIES

A life story can focus on a person, group, organization or a place. A life story has numerous chapters and added elements. This option provides you with up to eight hours of recording. It can also be audio-only, audio + visual, or audio + still image slideshow. Recordings can happen either in-person or remotely. Your final videos are up to eight hours.

Life Stories

Trevor interviewed residents of Charleston, Missouri about memories of school integration. 2023
Dave Taylor and Pat Watkins talked to Trevor about the birth of community radio in Columbia, Missouri.

CUSTOM PRODUCTIONS

Thinking about a podcast? Maybe you want to create a digital holiday card? Possibly you need a presentation for an annual meeting? Contact me with your vision and let’s make it happen. This may include podcast production, serialized content and custom audio interviews. Recordings can happen either in-person or remotely. Charge: Hourly rates apply.

Custom Productions

Got a podcast in you? The Recollection Agency can help make your production a reality as in this example from the State of Missouri’s Higher Education Commissioner.

Stories you share can be about anything. Your origin story, career memories and personal genealogy are all fair game. Here, Gennie P. and a student tell the story of how an Iowa Eaglecam inspired parallel artworks.

How it works

When you contact the Recollection Agency, you and I will set up a planning meeting. In that meeting, you and I will explore your goals for the recordings. You’ll talk about if and how you wish to share your recordings. The goal of the meeting is to clarify what stories you want to preserve and how. Based on this planning meeting, we will develop questions that will guide the interview. Your planning meeting and subsequent interviews can be in-person or remote based on your needs.

My goal is for the planning and recording processes to be interactive and enjoyable for all.

Come recording day it can just be you or involve others who will bring color to the recordings. Depending on the scope of your storytelling, you may have one or more sessions.

After your interview is complete, I edit for clarity. Once I complete a first draft, I will share those files with you for review.

You tell me where you want edits or I can make a first edit and share that. Maybe you want to add sound effects or additional audio. Great. This is your time to get creative. I am your humble audio production servant.

After your edits are complete, I will provide you with a final product on whatever format you prefer: a CD/DVD, jump drive or a digital download of your high quality .wav files.

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