She'll want to see this again at thirty. Film it like she will
Pocket 4K cameras arrive charged and labeled. Her friends and your family do the filming, we do the editing, and she gets a real film instead of a folder of clips nobody ever opens.
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She wrote the d'var Torah. Film the room hearing it.
Twelve or thirteen depending on your movement, months of study, and a speech she wrote herself. A camera at the back of the sanctuary gets her. It does not get her mother in the third row, the friends who came in matching everything, or the party that starts six hours later.
Who should hold a camera: One camera lives with her friends all night and never gets put down. One goes to the relative who has known her since she was two. If you're taking a third, keep it with whoever is running the montage and the candle lighting.
Start a bat mitzvah order- Her reading it out loud one more time the night before
- The row of friends who came in matching everything
- Her mother's face during the d'var Torah
- The photo booth line, which is where the real talking happens
- The song she requested three times
Your guests get a plan, not a lecture
Every bat mitzvah kit ships with table cards that explain the camera in one sentence and name six things worth pointing it at. Her friends will film each other regardless — the cards are there to make sure somebody also points one at the d'var Torah and the hora.
CAM 01REC
SHOT 01
Getting ready with her friends
CAM 02REC
SHOT 02
Arrivals and the room before it fills
CAM 03REC
SHOT 03
Her speech, and the reaction shots
CAM 04REC
SHOT 04
Family portraits, from the side
CAM 05REC
SHOT 05
Hora and the chair
CAM 06REC
SHOT 06
Dance floor until the lights come up
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Something she can still watch at thirty
The service, the party, four hundred clips of twelve-year-olds. It all comes back to us and our editors keep the twenty moments that hold up in ten years, not the twenty that were loudest on the night.
Her friends filmed each other for four hours straight. The editors found a thread in it that I never would have. She's watched it more times than the photos.
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Priced by cameras, not hours. Most bat mitzvahs book four, because the morning service and the evening party are two different rooms with two different guest lists. Already have your own footage? 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
Bat Mitzvah specifics
She wants to hand cameras to her friends. Should we let her?
Yes. That's the design, and twelve-year-olds are the best operators we ship to — they film constantly, they film each other, and they don't perform for a camera the way adults do. One button starts and stops, the camera orients itself, and there is no phone, app or account involved.
Can we include footage from before the date?
Yes, and the kit arriving five days early is what makes it possible. Families use those days for the last practice at the kitchen table, the dress, the drive to the rehearsal. Send it back on the same cards and tell us in your notes — that material usually opens the film.
Will the Torah reading and the d'var Torah be intelligible?
Only if a camera is close. If your synagogue permits recording, put one camera in the front few rows with a clip-on mic rather than at the back with the family. A sanctuary is a big reverberant room and distance destroys speech long before it destroys picture.
Who approves the film before the family sees it?
Whoever you name — and on this event it's often her. Two rounds of notes are included on every order and you see a rough cut first, which is the right moment to pull a clip she'd rather nobody saw. Name her as the approver in your notes and we'll send the link to her.
She'd hate having a camera pointed at her all night.
Most of what comes back isn't pointed at her. It's her friends filming each other, the table she's not sitting at, the relatives in the hallway. She turns up in it constantly, but almost never as the subject — which is why this reads differently from a hired camera following her around.
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Two minutes now, a box at your door five days before the date, a film a few weeks after the cameras come back. Two rounds of notes are included, so she gets a say in the cut.