Life with family is crazy. Drop offs and pick ups, work meetings, grocery runs, dinners, bath time and bed time. And on. And on. So many beautiful moments go by unrecorded and we miss them. A silly remark, an old photo we don’t look at anymore, a song to which we wrote lyrics for a child a few years ago when it’s now seldom heard. So many moments are lost in the haze of our busy lives.
We are seeing that families are looking for different ways to help assist in capturing, customizing and preserving special moments in time. Families that no longer simply point, shoot and store pictures in the gallery of their phone and the scrapbook of the attic and with a flick of the wrist and a “poof” blow them away as dust in the wind, are beginning to look for more enjoyable and effective ways to make their memories last.
From transforming pictures into masterpieces, or changing song lyrics into melodies, the possibilities of the new AI “creativity” have been shared, and could change our lives dramatically in the years to come.
Turning Ordinary Family Moments Into Lasting Keepsakes
Not every important family photo will be of a special occasion. It’s the ordinary moments that we treasure and that can be incredibly powerful in a photo. A photo of us at the dinner table will be far more important to us than a photo at a friends wedding, a photo of our child at play singing one of their made up songs will be far more important than a formal portrait that we may have to hang on a wall, and an ordinary weekend walk round the block will be more important than a planned out photoshoot. Our holiday photos may not always be perfectly posed or thought out, but when we look back at them many years later they’ll be far more important to us.
The hard part isn’t creating the moments, it’s capturing them in a way that means something to you.
New ways for families to interact with their photos thanks to Animate Image AI Parents are no longer limited to leaving important photos as mere static images. With Animate Image AI parents can make their special photos more dynamic and more expressive in order to stimulate the children’s curiosity, as for example with a child’s photo, a family travel photo or even an antique photo from many years ago.
For many families it will give a more realistic opportunity to revisit and relive their memories with children, grandparents and loved ones.
Why Personalized Content Matters More Than Ever
Today’s families are taking more pictures than ever and want to find ways to turn their meaningful memories into truly special items. No longer satisfied with the mundane photo album or run of the mill gift, families have been empowered to be more creative and individual through a wide variety of new digital tools and platforms.
Personalization is one of the defining characteristics of digital content. Truly digital content can evoke emotions, tell true stories and be about true people. Using a loved video clip from a family photo or creating a song based on meaningful lyrics – these are truly unique items that hold a value that is so much higher than something mass produced.
Another reason for the popularity of platforms like Lyrics To Song AI is that now it’s possible for anyone, even without musical training or the ability to produce or edit music to have a song created. You simply enter in a few words of text, which can be lyrics or a description of a song you’re envisioning, and the platform will create an entire song for you. So, now families can make their own unique and special birthday song, an anniversary song, or children’s classroom songs that are suitable and fitting to the needs of the class or family. They can also create humorous songs that capture one of their own family jokes or traditions.
The final performance is not a theatrical event. The final performance is a keepsake. A digital keepsake which can be replayed and relived.
Creative Ways Parents Are Using AI at Home
As more AI enabled devices are being released, parents are learning how to make the most of them.
Many students, parents and teachers enjoy using GoAnimate to create animated videos to celebrate things such as birthdays, anniversaries and Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Using pictures from within the Celebration theme, students are able to animate their very own special celebration video. A large number of our students enjoy creating animations using their own personal photos, rather than using the generic images contained within the templates available in the theme.
Animatethebible is being used for storytelling. Children are full of creativity and imagination and now as parents we have a fantastic tool to bring this imagination to life! Our children can choose a photo that we can animate and also help us write the words for a special song. They can then help us record the song and become the star of the show. How much fun is this going to be for them.
Will your AI creative tool help long distance families connect more deeply with one another? Grandparents and other far off relatives would like to hear more than just the sound of a child’s voice. They would like to hear about more than what can be seen in a photo. A project that can be animated and or turned into music can be a great way for long distance families to strengthen their bonds.
The Appeal of Easy-to-Use Creative Technology
I hear the rationale for the proliferation of these apps is that parents want to be creative but lack the time to actually learn how to edit in an app or construct something from the ground up.
Simple is beautiful because easy-to-use creative tools eliminate the need for a whole bunch of skills and you can create something beautiful right away! And you know what else is beautiful? That creating can be fast and easy for busy families like yours.
It seems that all too often with technology we end up with lots of things, but not much of real value. Today, there is a growing focus on the use of technology to make the most of what we already have. Rather than simply accumulating more photos, voice notes and ideas for notes we want to use our resources to create something that can be shared and that will have an emotional impact.
A New Era of Family Memory-Making
These days, it’s not uncommon to hear the phrase “disrupting family life” when it comes to technology. Between Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and more, we often feel bombarded and have our attention divided in so many ways. At StoryBloom, we strongly believe that the right technology can be an incredible way to help families with the important storytelling, relationship-building, and event-documenting that they need to be doing.
From static photo to animated clip. From few lines to a song. From ordinary to extraordinary second.
There are lots of apps that can be used as a way for parents to make more special memories for their children every day. Rather than replacing the important bonding time parents have with their children, the apps can be a way of expressing and recording all the extraordinary things that happen in a more creative way.
I believe we are in the midst of a revolution and we are only just beginning to see the effects. A revolution where families are becoming increasingly interested in capturing their family history. A revolution where they are realising they need some tools to help them do this in a creative, personal and emotional way. Families today do not want to be passive in their memory keeping. They want an experience that will allow them to capture their memories in a more dynamic, expressive and meaningful way.
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