A heartwarming surprise video for a birthday present: a roundup of recommended birthday movies

Happy birthday in sign language!

Let's talk in sign language [Greetings] Happy Birthday

How about a congratulatory comment video using sign language for people who are deaf or who love sign language? Even if someone has never encountered sign language before, I think their feelings will come across more strongly if they do their best to learn it, even without fully understanding it, and express their congratulations with it.

From her older brother, for his little sister’s 17th birthday. A close, two-shot video.

✿. [For my little sister’s 17th birthday] Twins / CHiCO with HoneyWorks (cover) – Ooshima

If you’re making a birthday movie, why not use all those two-shot photos sleeping in your phone’s photo folder? Line up lots of two-shots like purikura and selfies in a slideshow, add some lovely music, and turn it into one piece—I’m sure they’ll love it!

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Murakami Shinpei

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Sand art

Sand Art Movie Tokyo Sweets Collection 2014 – Sand art by emullenuett

It’s an idea where you create a story with pictures drawn in sand, using a principle similar to flipping through a flipbook.

Since it’s a bona fide work of art, trying it yourself might be quite a high hurdle, but there’s something moving about the gentle colors created with sand.

A one-of-a-kind flipbook from the family to Mom

[Birthday Surprise] A one-of-a-kind flipbook from the family to Mom

If you’re going to express your gratitude with a movie, giving that person something a little more elaborate will convey your feelings better.

For example, how about making a flipbook-style animation? Even if you don’t have old videos or photos of the person, you can recreate things with a flipbook.

It might take some effort, but your feelings will surely come through.

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Behind-the-scenes video of the message board creation

[U-FES 2015] Bringing you the scene from the message board booth! [SaraTalk]

For a birthday celebration, how about giving a group message from everyone—and along with it, sharing a behind-the-scenes look at how it was made? Showing the effort behind a simple gift and the feelings everyone put into their messages through video will make the main group message even more special.

A birthday movie for the teacher, compiled from students’ comments

Birthday video for Mr. Fujii - Kosei High School Wind Ensemble

If you’re making a celebratory or thank-you video for teachers or those who’ve helped you, messages from each person are, of course, the most moving.

Because it’s a video, you can see their faces and hear their voices, and later on, when you watch it again, it’s wonderful how clearly it brings everyone back to mind.

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Memory movie

[Memory Movie] Club activities, circles, lessons, student organizations, class matches, school events, youth, coming-of-age ceremonies, cultural festivals, surprises. Group applications are also welcome. Consultations OK. [Fukuoka & Kagoshima | Video Production - Sutekimeker (Steki Maker)]

Turn your photo album of memories into a movie.

Flipping through each page to reminisce is nice, but reliving those moments as a film with effects and background music is wonderful too.

Rather than just switching photos like a slideshow, weave in little stories like “Remember when that happened?”, set the BGM to a meaningful song, or suddenly lower the music to insert video clips from back then—these touches will make it even more moving.

The very process of gathering everyone’s photos and videos and putting it all together will itself become an unforgettable memory.

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