Graduation · Ceremony, party, the drive home

The ceremony is the boring part. Film the day around it

Pocket cameras go out to the family. Someone films the walk, someone films the parking lot, someone films the party — and we cut it into the version of the day that's actually worth keeping.

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  • Kits from $595 · four-week edit
  • Editing included
  • Shipping both ways
REC AUG 07 2026
TAPE 054K · 60P Graduation
Why guests, not a crew

Your family got four tickets. The film holds everyone.

Most schools cap ceremony seats at four or six per graduate, and the relatives who get in are two hundred feet up watching a name go by in four seconds. The ones who didn't get a ticket are in a parking lot. The party that night is where the whole family actually shows up.

Who should hold a camera: One camera in the stands for the walk, one with friends on campus, one at the party. They cover three different days that happen to share a date. Whoever's in the stands should start recording two names early — the read is over in four seconds.

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What tends to end up in the film
  • Fighting with the cap in the mirror at 7am
  • The exact second their name comes over the speakers
  • Finding each other in a field of identical gowns
  • The roommates saying goodbye badly in a parking lot
  • The backyard party where everyone's parents meet
Shot list, in the box

Your guests get a plan, not a lecture

Every graduation kit ships with table cards that explain the camera in one sentence and name six things worth pointing it at. Half of graduation day happens outdoors and on the move, so the list is built for a stadium and a backyard rather than a banquet hall.

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A reception room filled with tables and chairs CAM 01REC SHOT 01 Getting ready and the gown situation
A wooden table laid with plates and glasses CAM 02REC SHOT 02 Arriving on campus, family in tow
Confetti caught in the air CAM 03REC SHOT 03 The walk, from the stands
Two friends standing together outdoors CAM 04REC SHOT 04 The hunt for each other afterward
Balloons floating against a ceiling CAM 05REC SHOT 05 Photos with professors and friends
Guests raising glasses for a toast CAM 06REC SHOT 06 The party at home that night
Confetti caught in the air AUG 07 2026

Three locations, one day, one film

The stands, the field of identical gowns, the goodbyes in the parking lot, the party where everyone's parents meet. It all comes back to us and our editors cut the day into the version worth keeping.

★★★★★

Four years of college and I have maybe six photos. My little brother filmed the whole graduation weekend on one of these and I've watched the film probably fifteen times.

Cam R. · Gainesville, FL
Packages

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Priced by cameras, not hours. Most graduations book two — one for the ceremony, one for the party. Four is right when the morning ceremony and the evening party are in two different places and the family splits. Already have your own footage? We just edit that.

What you’re comparing it against. A videographer for a day like this runs $2,300 to $4,000 — that’s the US wedding average from The Knot and Zola, and the closest published benchmark there is. Four cameras, four mics, shipping both ways and the edited film is $795.
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Two cameras

$595
Up to 60 guests
  • 2 pocket 4K cameras, charged and labeled
  • 2 wireless clip-on mics, one per camera, free
  • Edited highlight film, 3–4 minutes
  • Four-week edit
  • Shipping both ways, return label in the box
Choose two
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Four cameras

$795
60–150 guests
  • 4 pocket 4K cameras, charged and labeled
  • 4 wireless clip-on mics, one per camera, free
  • Edited highlight film, 5–7 minutes
  • Vertical 60-second cut for social
  • Three-week edit
  • Shipping both ways, return label in the box
Choose four
No kit ships

Editing only

$395
You upload your own footage
  • No kit ships — nothing to hand out or send back
  • Upload from any phone or camera after the event
  • Edited highlight film, 3–5 minutes
  • Four-week edit
  • Two rounds of notes
Choose editing only
If there isn't enough footage, you don't pay for the film. If the kit comes back without enough usable material to cut a film, we refund your order minus a 20% restocking fee on the package price — the kit was held and shipped for a date we couldn't rent to anyone else. Add-ons are refunded in full. It's rare, and we show you what came back before we make that call.
Questions

Graduation specifics

We're two hundred feet from the stage. Will the walk be usable?

Honestly: it will be a wide shot. These are pocket cameras with no optical zoom, so a name being read from the far side of an arena reads as a small figure crossing a stage. It's worth having, but the footage people rewatch is the hallway beforehand, finding each other on the field afterwards, and the party.

Our school bans recording devices at the ceremony.

Then use the kit for the day around it, which is where the film is anyway. Getting ready, the drive in, the parking lot, the field afterwards, the party that night. Plenty of graduation orders never take a camera into the venue at all.

Two of ours are graduating in the same week.

One kit covers both if the two dates fall inside the same window — the kit lands five days before the first and needs to be in transit back within five days of the last. Tell us in your notes and we'll decide with you whether that's one film or two.

Ceremony at 9am, party at 7pm. Will the batteries make it?

Not on one charge, and you shouldn't try. Plan on ninety minutes to two hours of actual recording per battery. Every kit ships with a battery handle and a charging dock — put the cameras back on it between the ceremony and the party and you start the evening full.

Half the family watched on a livestream in a parking lot.

Film that too. It's a real part of graduation day and it's the part no school ever records — a dozen relatives around a phone on a car bonnet, reacting four seconds after the name. Hand one camera to somebody out there and we'll cut it against the walk itself.

These are the graduation questions. Booking, shipping, batteries, sound, returns and delivery are all answered in the full question list. Filming something else? See all event types.

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Two minutes now, a box at your door five days before the ceremony, a film a few weeks later — in time to send to everyone who couldn't get a seat.

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