Thirteen years of work, and the best footage is on everyone else's phone
Ship him a box of pocket 4K cameras instead. His friends film the party, your relatives film the service, and our editors turn the whole thing into a film that isn't shot vertically through a stranger's head.
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The service and the party are two different films
Saturday morning is a service, and plenty of synagogues don't permit filming during it. Saturday night is a party for a hundred thirteen-year-olds. Same kid, same date, two rooms that share nothing. Your relatives can cover one; his friends will cover the other without being asked twice.
Who should hold a camera: Give one camera to the kids' table at the party and then leave it alone. Give one to a cousin who knows every relative by name, and keep one with whoever is running the candle lighting so all thirteen call-ups are on something.
Start a bar mitzvah order- The last run-through of the parsha in the car
- His grandfather watching him from four rows back
- The chair going up, filmed from inside the circle
- Twelve seventh-graders discovering a camera exists
- The candle lighting, name by name
Your guests get a plan, not a lecture
Every bar mitzvah kit ships with table cards that explain the camera in one sentence and name six things worth pointing it at — the aliyah, the hora, the candle lighting, the speeches. Thirteen-year-olds don't need the instructions. The cards are for the adults.
CAM 01REC
SHOT 01
Morning at home before the service
CAM 02REC
SHOT 02
Family arriving at the synagogue
CAM 03REC
SHOT 03
The speech, and his parents watching it
CAM 04REC
SHOT 04
Kiddush and the room filling up
CAM 05REC
SHOT 05
Hora, chair lift, horn section
CAM 06REC
SHOT 06
Party games and the last hour on the floor
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A hundred kids filming, one film that makes sense
Kids shoot in bursts — eight seconds, then they're gone. Hundreds of those come back to us, and our editors find the run that tells the story instead of the run that was loudest.
We handed a camera to his three closest friends and told them nothing. What came back was thirty minutes of the actual party — not the one the adults saw.
The Kaplan family · Aventura, FLPick a package
Priced by cameras, not hours. Most bar mitzvahs book four, because the service and the party are two separate events that happen to share a date. Already have footage from the party? We just edit that.
Two cameras
- 2 pocket 4K cameras, charged and labeled
- 2 wireless clip-on mics, one per camera, free
- Edited highlight film, 3–4 minutes
- Four-week edit
- Shipping both ways, return label in the box
Four cameras
- 4 pocket 4K cameras, charged and labeled
- 4 wireless clip-on mics, one per camera, free
- Edited highlight film, 5–7 minutes
- Vertical 60-second cut for social
- Three-week edit
- Shipping both ways, return label in the box
Editing only
- No kit ships — nothing to hand out or send back
- Upload from any phone or camera after the event
- Edited highlight film, 3–5 minutes
- Four-week edit
- Two rounds of notes
Bar Mitzvah specifics
Can we film the service itself?
Depends entirely on your shul. Many don't permit recording on Shabbat, and some allow a fixed camera at the back with permission arranged in advance. Ask your rabbi before you plan around it. If the answer is no, the kit still covers everything from the kiddush onward, and a lot of families film the rehearsal instead.
The kids will not give the cameras back at the end of the night.
Assume that and plan for it. Name one adult as the collector, tell the DJ to call it before the last song, and count them into the case at the coat check. The cameras are labeled, so it's obvious which one is missing. You have five days to get the case in transit back to us.
How do we get the hora from inside the circle?
Wrist strap on, camera in one hand, and stay on the floor rather than under the chair. These are pocket-sized, so filming from inside the circle is a hand-held shot, not a rig. It's the one angle no tripod at the back of the ballroom will ever get.
We want every name audible during the candle lighting.
Put a clip-on mic on whoever is calling the names and keep one camera within a few feet of the cake table. A ballroom with a DJ running is a hostile room for audio, and the difference between a mic on the MC and a camera across the room is the difference between hearing thirteen names and hearing none.
The service is at the shul and the party is somewhere else.
Not an issue. The cameras go in a bag between venues — no cases to strike, no power to run, nothing to coordinate with either venue. Most bar mitzvah kits move at least once during the day.
These are the bar mitzvah questions. Booking, shipping, batteries, sound, returns and delivery are all answered in the full question list. Filming something else? See all event types.
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