How to Prepare an Audio Visual Tribute
Create a touching audio visual tribute by gathering and organising photos, videos, and music, ensuring each element honours your loved one’s cherished moments.
As a leader in the industry for quality and innovation, Tobin Brothers Funerals takes great pride in offering a range of high quality audio visual options to help our client families create a truly personal celebration of life.
Our in-house Memories and Tributes Consultants create beautiful audio visual presentations to Celebrate the Life of your loved one.
For help with audio visual elements or for more information about our audio visual tributes please call our Memories and Tributes team.
Remember your loved one with a Celebrated Moments Audio Visual tribute.
A Celebrated Moments Audio Visual Presentation is a celebration of life in images. This is a moving montage of treasured photographic moments from your family archives.
Your family photographs are brought to the screen with a themed background of music and suitable on-screen text.
The resulting video, capturing the special moments of your loved one’s life, is shown during the funeral service, and is given to the family as a lasting tribute.
Generally speaking, our Tributes Team is able to complete the Celebrated Moments Audio Visual Presentation approximately 4 days after meeting with your funeral planner.
Delivering your materials to Tobin Brothers at the time and place negotiated with your Funeral Planner will assist us to prepare your Celebrated Moment Audio Visual Presentation in time for the funeral service.
Select 40 photographs to be used. More images can be added at an additional cost. Photographs can be provided to us as:
(If you require your photographs in a particular order, ensure they are numbered accordingly within the file name. E.g. Photo1.jpg, Photo2.jpg, Photo3.jpg etc.)
Nominate a feature photograph to be used on the opening and closing screen of your presentation.
Choose a design to be used behind the feature photograph - See pages 4-16 of our personalisation guide.
Select a piece of music that is roughly 3-5 minutes in length. Your music can be supplied to us using one of the following methods:
Complete the supplied order form and place it in the plastic satchel or in the digital dropbox along with your photographs.
Return the plastic satchel to Tobin Brothers or complete the digital upload via Dropbox.
We will provide you with a copy of the finished piece to get your final approval.
On the day of the funeral, the completed Celebrated Moments Audio Visual will be delivered to the location of your service, along with any other printed stationery.
The Celebrated Moments Audio Visual Presentation is now available for you to share with loved ones and keep forever.
At the conclusion of the funeral, your original photographs, disc or USB stick will all be returned to you.
If you need to discuss your Celebrated Moments Audio Visual presentation, reach out to your Funeral Planner or speak to a Tributes consultant by calling (03) 9354 4178.
For many families a funeral is a significant life event. The choices made at the time of arranging a funeral can help to truly celebrate the life of your loved one and create a lasting memory.
If you need help with funeral arrangements or funeral personalisation, speak to one of our Funeral Planners who will guide you through the process.
AV stands for audio visual, and it refers to media or equipment that utilises vision and hearing.
In the context of a funeral service, our Celebrated Moments Audio Visual is an audiovisual presentation that allows you to present a series of images alongside your chosen music to create a special tribute in honour of your loved one.
Webcasting involves the use of audiovisual equipment in order to stream and record a funeral to be watched by those who cannot attend.
A Celebrated Moments Audio Visual presentation, is an audiovisual presentation that features a selection of images of your loved one, shown with your chosen music.
This style of presentation is commonly shown at funerals to express the life and legacy of your loved one, in a way that words often can’t.
It also allows some time for quiet reflection during the ceremony, and allows those attending some time to remember their loved one in their own way, with imagery and music helping to set the tone and capture their emotion.
At Tobin Brothers, our Celebrated Moments Audio Visual includes 1 song between 3 - 5 minutes long, and 40 images.
Yes, you may customise a Celebrated Moments Audio Visual by adding extra photographs, more music, advanced digital photo repair or retouching.
Yes, multiple copies can be provided for an additional cost. Speak to your Funeral Planner for more details.
You can include any images that are appropriate for viewing in a public space.
This might include hard copy original photos, or digital images.
Digital images must be provided as JPG/JPEG, PNG or TIFF, and can be uploaded to disc, USB stick or via digital dropbox to your Funeral Planner for processing.
Yes, you can. Please provide the hard copies of your images to your Funeral Planner, or scan and upload the files to send.
Scanned files should have a resolution of 300dpi. Speak with your funeral planner if you have trouble with this at all.
If you don’t require any particular order, you can name the files whatever you like. However, if you wish for them to be shown in a particular order, please name them in the order you would like them shown. For example: Photo1.jpeg, Photo2.jpeg, Photo3.jpeg and so on.
A funeral webcast is the ability to stream a funeral or memorial service live over the internet.
It is a cost effective solution which enables friends or relatives interstate or overseas to participate in the service.
In the past, if you were too unwell to attend a funeral, were restricted by work or mobility, or lived too far away, you simply missed out on being able to attend.
Thanks to modern technology, and shifts in attitude towards video streaming and online participation, we are now able to provide a webcasting service that allows friends and family to be a part of the funeral, no matter where they are in the world.
Prior to COVID19, funerals were much less likely to be webcast but in recent years, the vast majority of services include some form of streaming.
The funeral webcast is accessed via the Tobin Brothers Tribute page dedicated to your loved one.
On that page, you will see information about your loved one, their service, and the link to the Live Stream.
The link to the Tributes page can be shared with family members via email or social media by selecting the ‘Share Tribute’ button or by simply copy and pasting the url of the Tribute Page.
Webcast information can also be added to newspaper Death and/or Funeral Notices.
We can webcast from any of our Tobin Brothers Chapels as well as any other location, for example a Church or Cemetery, provided it is within range of wireless internet access.
Tobin Brothers record and archive the service which is then available for viewing for a period of 12 months from the date of the funeral.
Webcasting is available at no extra cost from all Tobin Brothers Chapels.
Funerals at all other venues can be webcast for a fee, provided there is wireless internet access.
The fees for webcasting do vary depending on your location, and the required setup and management. Your Funeral Planner should be able to provide you with an estimate of fees for this service.
Create a touching audio visual tribute by gathering and organising photos, videos, and music, ensuring each element honours your loved one’s cherished moments.
Personalisation is an important aspect of the funeral service, allowing families to celebrate the life of the their loved one.
For over 90 years, Tobin Brothers Funerals have been helping families. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We’re here for you.
If it’s legal, it’s possible. Let us help you create a service that truly reflects and celebrates the life of your loved one.
The first funeral conducted by Tobin Brothers Funerals was for Ena Margaret Price in 1934. In its first year, the company conducted 53 funerals and after the payment of creditors and the collection of debts, it made a modest profit.