Antioch, Illinois · At-home documentary interviews
A move, a working life, the family years. Record the chapters you want to explain through a personal interview at home in Antioch.
Documentaries from $4,500 · One filmmaker · Filmed at home
At-home life-story filmmaking
A familiar story often has details the family has never asked about. How did your parents meet? What brought them to Antioch? Which decision changed their working life? A guided documentary interview gives those questions time and attention, with professional sound and lighting in a comfortable room.
Begin with the person, rather than a box of every photograph you own. Together we identify the chapters worth covering and the people who can explain them. The finished film can follow one relative or include several voices, depending on the package and the story you want to preserve.
Interview preparation · Antioch
Antioch’s village history describes its growth as a vacation destination after the railroad arrived in 1886. If your family first knew the area through summer visits, ask how those visits became part of family life. Their own experience matters more than a general history lesson.
A photograph outside a shop, an old uniform or a first pay envelope can introduce working life. Ask who taught them the job, how they traveled there and what they did with their first earnings. Include the names and relationships a younger viewer would not already know.
Ask about the weekends, household rules and friendships that sit between wedding and graduation photographs. Which routines did they carry into raising their own children? A specific memory often explains a family tradition more clearly than a broad description of what childhood was like.
Life-story documentary services · Antioch
A personal biography can include childhood elsewhere, military service and the move that brought you here. A family film can connect those chapters with relatives’ accounts.
Documentary packages in Antioch
Every package can follow one person. Longer films allow more chapters and context; additional people and locations depend on the agreed scope.
15–20 minute film
One camera angle
30–40 minute film
Two camera angles
45–60 minute film
Two camera angles
Recording in your home
If relatives are visiting Antioch for a birthday or reunion, separate the interview time from the gathering itself. Conversations are easier to record when music, cooking and several overlapping voices are not competing with the person on camera. We discuss a suitable room and the filming schedule with you.
Choose a small initial selection of photographs and note names, approximate dates and why each picture matters. Share the intended viewing date before booking. Package timelines range from 6–8 weeks to 14–18 weeks, and the proposal confirms the agreed scope and schedule.
Preparation, filming and editing
Before booking
Yes, subject to available filming dates. Tell us who will be present and whether they should be interviewed or simply help prepare. The participant allowance varies by package, so a visit does not automatically mean everyone will appear in the film.
Absolutely. The filming location does not limit the life story. Bring relevant photographs and notes from earlier homes. If you want filming at another location outside Lake County, that travel and any additional production time need a separate discussion.
The core service is a planned life-story interview edited into a documentary. It is different from event coverage. We can plan a film intended for a celebration, but any recording of the celebration itself would need to be specifically agreed.
Lake County travel is included in the listed film packages. We confirm your address, the number of filming locations and any access requirements when preparing the proposal. Venue charges or other separately quoted additions are not included automatically.
Tell us where each interview would take place. We confirm travel, access and the number of locations in your proposal.
Your documentary starts here
Tell us whose story you would like to record in Antioch and which family chapters you most want to hear.
No booking commitment. Just a conversation.
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