Virtual Memorial Guide
  • Welcome to your guide
  • Table of contents
  • Checklist
  • Grief
    • A word on grief
    • Practices for grieving
  • Step by Step Guide
    • 1. Consider purpose & tone
    • 2. Define roles
    • 3. Choose a format
    • 4. Set up your tech
    • 5. Send invitations
    • 6. Consider the elements
    • 7. Design your program
    • 8. Customize slides
    • 9. Record facilitation notes
    • 10. Rehearse the program
    • 11. Day of Hosting
  • Memorial Elements Library
    • Opening
      • Arrival
      • Formal start & invocation
      • Orientation
    • Memorial
      • Music
      • Readings
      • Eulogies
      • Slideshow or video
      • Group activity
    • Closing
      • Letting go ceremony
      • Closing reflection
    • Post-service gathering
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Purpose

This time can be used to honor the life of your loved one. Use this time for participants to get to know him/her in a deeper and more multi-dimensional way.

You may discover sides to them them you had not known before, and feel the breadth of love people have for them. These stories, photos, and videos will be useful later as you continue your grieving process.

Ideas

Some examples of things you can do

Storytelling

  • Photo slideshow (people send in photos in advance)

  • Video montage (people send in videos in advance)

  • Opening the floor for people to share their favorite memory

  • Special thematic presentation (e.g. of their own or favorite artwork, music, etc)

Many of these photos and videos can be asked in advance << wording

These tools make it easy for you to send a link to people where they can upload photos or videos. The tools then make it easy for you to assemble the collection into a slideshow, or video, with just a few clicks.

  • - memorial video template

  • - Allows guests to upload memorial photos during the event (paid, $20)

Instructions for embedding a video directly into your memorial slides:

  • Create a video or use an existing video

  • Upload video to google drive (note: you can also upload a video that is on YouTube.)

  • Navigate to slide where you want to embed the video

  • In the menu above, click “Insert → Video”

  • Search for the video by title using the search field (or look in the recent folder).

  • Click “Select”

  • Once loaded on the slide, you can modify the playback settings and size of the video using the format field to the right on the screen.

For simple video creation use: iMovie or

The formatting sidebar for a video
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