1.Find grandparents with young photos
Find grandparents who have photos of them when they were younger, the younger the better, ideally a record of the best parts of their life story. You can prepare a few more pictures and use your mobile phone to take them or scan them on your computer to make a composite text.
Find grandparents with young photos
2.Interview story
Make an appointment at a time to interview the grandparents about their life stories, as well as the photo stories they provided. Pay attention to the records of people, events, times, places, and objects as a basis for future content arrangement.
Interview story
3.Select photos of grandparents when they were young and take their current photos
Through the life story interview, select the most suitable photo as the main axis of the story, and arrange a time to take current photos of the grandparents. Pay attention to asking the grandparents to pose in a way that interacts with the photos when they were young.
Select photos of grandparents when they were young
ake their current photos
4.Photo synthesis
Combine the photos of your grandparents when you were young and the photos of your current grandparents through the mobile APP or the "Select Subject" function of Photoshop on your computer. There are a lot of software on the Internet that can create combined photos.
Photo synthesis
5.Layout
Edit the text and pictures from the prepared composite photos, and create jpg and PDF files respectively. The jpg file can be used for output display, and the pdf file can be used as the content of the e-book.
Layout
6.Output display and creation of e-books
Send the completed jpg file to print, output it as a large picture and mount it on the back, find a place for community display, and hang it for display. Send the pdf file to the library to apply for an ISBN, and upload it to the e-book website to make it a book that can be downloaded by the public and kept permanently.
Output display and creation of e-books
Output display and creation of e-books
7.Grandparents share stories, and media spread
At exhibitions and book launches, grandparents are invited as guests of honor to share their life stories, filmed, and uploaded to social media and mass media to share this model with more people.
Grandparents share stories, and media spread