Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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2011 Year in Review: Frakesproductions.com
Here is a random collection representing a few of the images I recorded during the busy 2011 production year. Locations included Haiti (twice), Cuba, Dominican Republic, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio. Music by JS Bach, Mass in B minor Dona nobis pacem (BWV 232). For more detail, here are links to most…
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Images from Mizak, Haiti
Here is a collection of images from my visit to Mizak, Haiti in 2011 with Haitian Artists for Peace International. The music is performed by a group of guys who were jamming by the side of the road.
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Ascension Catholic School Fundraiser
This is a pro bono project I shot for Ascension Catholic School in Oak Park, Illinois. Big Shoulders, a Chicago production company did the editing. The video was used at an auction that raised approximately $60,000.
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Herald of Truth
Herald of Truth, is an Abilene, Texas based ministry founded in 1952 that reaches out to individuals through media, the internet and events, doing what the local church can’t. Bill Brant, the President of Herald of Truth (and my professor back at Harding University) asked me to put this image video together.
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Tour a Cold War Era Atlas Missile Silo
Along a lonely stretch of blacktop in rural, Central Texas, my friend Larry Sanders takes me on a tour of a partially restored Atlas missile site. At the height of the Cold War, Curtis Lamay and the Strategic Air Command, built and deployed the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System.
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Understanding Waste Water Treatment
Waste water. We all make it. We all need it taken care of. Where our waste water goes and how it is treated is something most of us take for granted. Ok, so waste water might not be the sexiest topic to make a video about, but the wise management of our planets water resources…
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A Late Autumn Walk
A late autumn walk through Hidden Lake Forest Preserve, Du Page County, Illinois. Panasonic Lumix GF3, 720p www.frakesproductions.com
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Bethesda Lutheran Communities, Boy Family
My friend and colleague from our days together at the ELCA Lutheran Center, Sue Edison-Swift, asked me to help her new employer, Bethesda Lutheran Communities, tell stories about their work. The mission of Bethesda Lutheran Communities is to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that share the good news…
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Carrie Newcomer – 30 Good Minutes, Spiritual Journey
This is a spiritual journey I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Singer and songwriter, Carrie Newcomer, drawn to the social justice and peace focus of the Quakers, writes songs about the sacred in the ordinary things of life.
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Sayira Khokhar Spiritual Journey, 30 Good Minutes
Sayira Khokhar – 30 Good Minutes – Spiritual Journey This is a spiritual journey segment I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Sayira is a young woman who grew up in Chicago and tasted the backlash of anti Muslim sentiment in the years following 9/11.