Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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I’ve been everywhere, man!
Happy December! Travel, I’ve had my share, man. 2023 was perhaps our busiest. I’m thinking the post-pandemic reality prompted our non-profit, faith-based, broadcast and corporate clients to make up for lost ground. 22 different clients and more individual videos than I can count. Here’s a brief rundown. The Rural Community Assistance Partnership led the…
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Goodbye Mr. Zee, Hello New Helen Plum Library
The Helen Plum Library in Lombard, Illinois (my home town) has asked me to tell stories during construction of their new library. Yesterday they began demolition of the vacant Mr. Zee grocery store. It’s hard for the town because the family owned grocery was an important part of the fabric of Lombard. The Library Board…
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Here is a new video I produced for Lombard’s Helen Plum Library. The new, planned library location at 411 S. Main Street, Lombard (get it, 411… information… library) will be built on the site of the former Mr. Z’s Grocery story. The Helen Plum Library worked out an agreement with the Lombard Fire Department and…
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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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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…