Birthday Video Length

[dawnfire]

I was going to post this in the Random Thread, but I thought I could make a poll since we like clicky polls.

I'm making a birthday video to show at Elias's party.  2 videos, actually.  

Video 1 is a week by week time lapse from birth to 1 year old.  It's around 3 minutes long.

Video 2 is chronological video clips of Elias from birth to 1 year old.  Sort of a highlight reel, if you will.  If I just use one song, it's about 4 minutes long and I will need to trim a lot of clips/delete some clips.  If I use 2 songs, it's about 8 minutes long.

I'm worried 11 minutes of video of LO may bore people at the party.  Vote for how long you think the video portion of the party should be!

[jnnfrrose6]

Is it going to be "everyone sit down and watch these 11 minutes of my kid" or just something you have on a loop in the background? That would make a difference to me.

[littlemissmarla]

Jul 20, 2015 19:27:50 GMT -5 jnnfrrose6 said:

Is it going to be "everyone sit down and watch these 11 minutes of my kid" or just something you have on a loop in the background? That would make a difference to me.

Agreed. Also, if it's sit down and watch will it be during food time? I think people would be okay as long as they have food in front of them. 

[dawnfire]

Oh, thanks for asking I didn't even think to put that aspect.

Yes, they'll be sit down and watch type deals (ideally shoveling food in face would be ideal, but not sure if that'll work with the long, narrow party room.) We're planning to have Finding Nemo on the TV/laptop for the littles otherwise.

[jnnfrrose6]

Even with food, I'd go shorter then.

[lea]

I'd do maybe 5ish minutes of highlights if you can. The 8-minute would probably be more than enough but if you can trim it down I think it'd be good.

[dawnfire]

Thanks for the input, ladies. I'm going to make an Extended Cut (the 8ish minute one) anyway for DH and I to keep. It's a good way to have the video highlights of the year. We'll do the shorter version for the party.