Her friends will film it anyway. Give them something that looks good
Sixteen-year-olds are already filming everything — just at 480p, sideways, in the dark. Our cameras shoot 4K, hold steady, and see in low light. Same instinct, footage worth keeping.
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Phones fail in exactly the room a Sweet 16 happens in
Low light, a DJ rig strobing, a hundred people moving. That is the hardest thing you can hand a phone camera, and it's every Sweet 16 ever thrown. Her friends are going to film all night either way — the only open question is whether any of it is watchable in the morning.
Who should hold a camera: Hand them out at the door and don't manage it. Sixteen-year-olds direct themselves better than any brief you could write. Keep one back for a parent, because nobody under seventeen is going to film the grandparents.
Start a sweet 16 order- The getting-ready room, which is loud
- The entrance, filmed by people screaming
- The dad dance nobody was ready for
- The bathroom-mirror group shot at 11pm
- The friends who talk to the camera like it's a diary
Your guests get a plan, not a lecture
Every sweet 16 kit ships with table cards that explain the camera in one sentence and name six things worth pointing it at. Her friends won't read them. They're there so the entrance, the speeches and the candle ceremony get covered by somebody who will.
CAM 01REC
SHOT 01
Hair, makeup and the group getting ready
CAM 02REC
SHOT 02
Arrivals and the first twenty minutes
CAM 03REC
SHOT 03
The entrance
CAM 04REC
SHOT 04
Toasts and the family moment
CAM 05REC
SHOT 05
Dance floor, all night
CAM 06REC
SHOT 06
Late-night confessions to the camera
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Four hundred clips from teenagers, one film
The getting-ready room, the entrance, the dad dance, the talking-to-camera bits at midnight. It all comes back to us and our editors keep the twenty moments that still hold up once the night is over.
I expected chaos. It is chaos, but the edit made it feel like a movie about her friend group. She sent it to everyone within an hour of getting it.
The Okonjo family · Weston, FLPick a package
Priced by cameras, not hours. Most sweet sixteens book four, because the getting-ready room and the party are two separate films and she'll want both. The four-camera kit is also the one that comes with a vertical sixty-second cut. Already have your own footage? We just edit that.
Two cameras
- 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
Four cameras
- 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
Editing only
- 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
Sweet 16 specifics
The venue is dark with a DJ light rig going. Will anything be usable?
That's the condition these are built for and the exact condition a phone fails in. Low light and a moving light rig are what produce the smeared, grainy, half-black clips that end up in a group chat. You'll still want one camera near the entrance or the cake table where there's some ambient light.
Teenagers film everything vertically. Is that a problem?
No — the camera orients itself, so it records the right way up regardless of how it's being held. The four-camera kit also comes with a sixty-second vertical cut of the finished film, which is the version she'll actually want, so the horizontal habit isn't something you need to teach anyone.
She'll want something to post that night.
You won't have it that night, and it's worth saying so upfront. The edit takes three weeks on the four-camera kit from when the case reaches us. If the timing matters — a birthday post, a school thing — add the rush edit at checkout and tell us the date you need it by.
Getting ready is at our house, the party is at a venue.
Split them. Two cameras stay at the house for the getting-ready room, which is loud and usually funnier than the party, and all four go to the venue afterwards. There's nothing to set up at either end — no power, no rigging, nothing the venue needs to know about.
Do we have to tell the venue or the DJ?
No. There's no equipment to load in, no stands, no power draw and nobody standing in a doorway with a rig. From the venue's side, some of your guests are holding small cameras. It's the reason this works in rooms that won't accommodate a second videographer.
These are the sweet 16 questions. Booking, shipping, batteries, sound, returns and delivery are all answered in the full question list. Filming something else? See all event types.
Book the sweet 16 kit
Two minutes now, a box at your door five days before the party, a film a few weeks later — plus the vertical sixty-second version on the four-camera kit, which is the one she'll actually post.