Re-Collections

They say, "Every picture tells a story". Well, why not get your pictures to tell YOUR story. Use continuous audio recording to capture those precious first reactions. Perfect for saving an oral history!

"Re-Collections" captures those moments for you, creating lasting memories for everyone to enjoy.

• Make your family history come to life by adding audio and text to your photos.
• Capture those precious first reactions and memories using "continuous" audio recording - it keeps recording as you swipe from picture to picture!
• Create a slideshow with audio playback connecting several or all of your photos.
• Share photos, audio and text notes with others using email, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo and other social media.
• Import your photos from Dropbox, your Photo Library or use the inbuilt camera.

Re-Collections was originally conceived as a way to capture the first reactions and emotion conveyed when someone first sees a photo. To make that happen, press the microphone button once to start recording, then simply swipe to the next photo - the audio continues to record. When you have finished viewing your photos, simply press the microphone button once more and your recording stops. Theres no need to continually hit the "record" button to start and stop recording for each photo -­ the "continuous audio" recording feature cuts and tags the audio for you, saving each photos audio clip individually, but playable as a continuous recording in your slideshow.

Of course you can also use the "Re-Collections" app to add audio and text notes to any images - so make a presentation for the office, for your team or group, or anything else.


Background

After discovering a satchel of old photos at my fathers house, I borrowed them and scanned them in to my computer. A couple of years later my Dad came for a visit, so I asked him if hed go through the photos with me and tell me something about each one.

As we were doing this, I realised the need for an easy-to-use app that would allow making text notes, so that afternoon I hastily created a prototype. The next day, as we continued browsing through the photos, I typed in some of the details that Dad described. But there was something missing.

As I was typing away, I realised that the words I wrote only told a
fraction of the story. The REAL story was in my Dads voice, his emotion, his laughter, and the journeys that came flooding back as he described these wonderful snapshots of his parents, his grandparents, his childhood musings in Scotland and beyond.

I realised that I wanted to be able to capture these "first moments" of seeing a photo - when the emotion is right there with you. Thus I came upon the idea of "continuous recording" - no action was required to start recording for each photo, so there would be no interruption of the viewers connection to the photo.

Its that simple.

"Re-Collections" - sharing real stories.