What Is a PHOTOMONTAGE?

Before combining these two words into one, the definitions of photo and montage according to Dictionary.com are: Once combined, you get PHOTOMONTAGE; a speciality of Motion Memories by Nic. This is where we put the motion into your memories.

How Is It Created?

Making a photomontage is about telling a complete story in a combination of pictures, videos, music and text. We work with you to create your specific story. We do NOT just put them in a program that automatically assembles the pictures for a set amount of time with standard effects. Motion Memories by Nic makes your photos come alive using transitional effects and music as we assemble them to tell your personal story. Photos are edited to the beat and mood of the music and the motion is achieved by zooming, panning, tilting, rocking, spinning, and bouncing the pictures.

We handle your photos as if they were part of our own personal collection. If they are not already in digital form (from a digital camera), we first scan them, followed by basic color correction, detail enhancement and perform minor dirt fixes before assembly. Immediately after scanning, we put your precious originals back into your folder, to be returned with your finished montage.

Photomontages need not consist only of still photos. If you have exisiting VHS or DVD video that fits into the story we are creating, it can be added into the mix at the appropriate point.

When Is A Photomontage Appropriate?

Not only is it a current trend for display during a wedding reception, a photomontage truly is a wonderful way to show the beginning of your love story, making it an especially nice addition to the beginning of your wedding video.

If you already had your wedding and did not videotape it, having your wedding photos assembled into a montage is the next best thing to having a video.

Special birthdays and anniversaries are events that are ideal for a photomontage, whether presented as a gift or used for display for the guests.

Reunions or vacations also are nice events to have set in motion to music.

Life tributes can even be created for presentation at a funeral, honoring the life lived by your loved one.

So as you flip through stacks of photos from the box under your bed, consider getting them assembled together in a PHOTOMONTAGE. On a DVD, your memories will be set into motion and readily available for viewing whenever you want to take a stroll down memory lane.