Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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Common Good Promo Trailer
I’m excited to share a promo trailer for a new documentary I’m currently working on with the Lombard Historical Society. We are well into production and hope to have it finished by Spring 2021. For more information go to frakesproductions.com or contact the Lombard Historical Society at lombardhistory.org On a small network of curving, treelined…
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Making Virtual a Reality
Making Virtual a Reality “This must be heaven,” says Shoeless Joe Jackson. “No. It’s Iowa,” writes W.P. Kinsella, in his 1982 novel, Shoeless Joe. 2020 and the Covid-19 Pandemic has blurred the line between virtual and reality in the video production business. Much of my business involves generating content for or actually recording large fundraising…
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All Citizens
Join us Sunday, June 7 at noon on Youtube for a special premier of our new documentary. All Citizens The Lombard women who voted 29 years before the 19th amendment and the story of those who made it possible. On April 6, 1891 fifteen Lombard women, led by Chicago attorney Ellen A.…
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Save Your Memories!
Let us transfer your legacy VHS,VHS-C, 3/4, Hi8mm, Digital 8mm, 8mm and 16mm film, DV tape, DVD, BetaSP, or vinyl LP’s to modern digital formats. Prices start as low as $12 per item for 7 items and up. Digital delivery via dropbox is free. Deliver via thumb drive or DVD is $15. Shipping charges apply…
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About Tim Frakes Productions Inc.
Hello. I’m Tim Frakes. Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production and post-production company based in Lombard, Illinois. We record, produce and post-produce in the Chicago area, across the United States and globally: We produce award winning documentaries, multi camera broadcast events including concerts, worship events and celebrations, development videos, marketing videos for…
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2018 Year in Review
Whew! 2018 was a busy year. Here’s a grateful rundown. The year started off working with Chris Meyer from Orange Flux to produce a series of stories for Lutheran Child and Family Services. Jim Parks and I continued to work with Northwestern Medicine producing a video on NM Supportive Communications at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital. Lutheran…
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Chicago Theological Seminary Leaders for the Next
Here is a video I helped Michael Jordan from 31 Lengths and Susan Mooney Cusick produce from Chicago Theological Seminary‘s Leaders for the Next campaign.
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Sheldon Peck, An Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times
Here is a promo for the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries airing of our new documentary, Sheldon Peck, And Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times. The half hour broadcast version will air every Sunday at noon in December (beginning this Sunday) on ABC 7.2 Live Well Network Chicago. A longer version will be offered on DVD this…
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LSSI 2018 Amicus Certus, Whole Person Care
Here is a video I produced for Lutheran Social Services of Illinois for their 37th Amicus Certus Celebration. LSSI takes a whole person approach to care. In all of LSSI”s programs, whether providing foster care services for children, home care for seniors, or residences for adults with developmental disabilities, LSSI seeks to address not just…
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Sheldon Peck Documentary off to a good start
Today was fun. Recorded an interview with Kenneth B. Morris at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. Morris descends from two of the most influential names in American history: he is the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass (he looks just like him) and the great-great-grandson of Booker T. Washington. It’s part of a new documentary…