Behind the Scenes "Asylum" : A HDR Time-Lapse Created with 35,000 Photos for 7 months.

4/13/2012 ISO 1200 Magazine 0 Comments

This is a short Q&A (with behind the scene photo's) with Drew Geraci & Drew Breese (The Drew Crew) as they share why they started their journey... into the Asylum.

The Asylum ( if you do not watch it yet):

Take a dark journey into the forgotten, where time stands still. The paint has peeled off the walls and the only occupants are the souls of those left behind. This is the Asylum.

Opened in the early 1920s, the Asylum closed down and was abandoned decades ago. Rooms remain untouched – left as they were when the last of the employees departed. These buildings stand as a testament to the horrors and miss treatment that patients had to endure during the time of its operation.

Our 7 month journey into the Asylum led us on many adventures; from dodging security vehicles, ghostly figures and even a meth head. This is no place for the faint of heart. Asbestos blanketed every room we entered like new winter snow, so shooting was sometimes difficult.

This project is a combination of traditional HDR, tone-mapping, and standard time-lapse techniques. With the use of the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero and a Merlin head, we were able to capture the grit and the grime of this wondrous place, like it had never been captured before. Every single frame in this production is a still photograph, no video was shot. It took nearly 35,000 individual frames over 7 months to complete this project.

In return, it took tremendous help from many individuals to complete this project.

by Drew Geraci | district7media.net | thevoder.com

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