dadly film · how it works

How a dadly film gets made

You send the clips. He answers five questions. We cut the story. Six to eight weeks later you have a three-minute film you will watch together more than once.

1. Send the clips

Twenty to sixty phone clips of him and the kid. Any length, any quality, vertical or not. You get a private upload link after checkout. Do not sort them. The unsorted camera roll is the point.

2. He answers five questions

We send him five questions. He answers each one out loud as a voice memo on his phone, in a quiet room, in one take. Ten minutes. His answers are the spine of the film.

1. What is one thing your kid does that only you notice?
2. What did the two of you do this week that nobody filmed?
3. What do you hope they remember about being small?
4. What do you say to them every single day?
5. What do you want them to know when they are your age?

3. We cut the story

A person cuts the film, around his answers, with a beginning, a middle and an end. Our tooling does the assembly. The last twenty percent is by hand. Three minutes, licensed music, a title card with the kid's name and the year.

4. Delivery

A private link and a download, in six to eight weeks. Your film is deleted from our storage 30 days after delivery. If you want a physical keepsake to hand over, ask when you order.

What it costs

Founding ten: $249. Core film: $399. Denver in-person: $1,500, with a half-day shoot. One-time, no subscription. Ships in six to eight weeks; if the founding ten are gone when you order, your card is not charged and you are first for the next ten.