Halloween Through the Years: Building a Costume Montage That Gets Better Every October

Halloween is the one holiday where the photo record is purely joyful. There are no awkward group poses, no one is squinting into the sun, and the costumes do half the storytelling for you. It is also the holiday people forget to organize—because by November 1st the costumes are back in a box and the photos are buried under Thanksgiving prep.

PhotoCast users have started building "Halloween through the years" videos the same way they build first-day-of-school montages: one costume per year, one short note, narrated. The result is a tradition the family replays every October 31st while passing out candy.

Tips from the most-replayed Halloween videos:

• Include the pumpkin-carving photos, the costume-construction photos, and the school parade photos—not just the trick-or-treating shots. The lead-up is half the memory.
• Use Playful for the older years when the costumes got ambitious and the results were questionable. The narration should match the energy of the photo.
• Don't skip the year the kid refused to wear a costume and went as "a kid in a black shirt." That photo is going to be the most-quoted one in the video ten years from now.

The video also becomes the easiest answer to "what should we be next year?"—just look back at what worked, what didn't, and which costume made everyone laugh hardest.