L.A. "Carmageddon" Time Lapse - The 405 in 4:05

A Time Lapse short film of the 405 Freeway closure in Los Angeles, July 15th - July 17th.

5 Photographers worked on this project. They are:

Darren Bates (www.darren-bates.com)
Andy Thompson
Titano Cruz (www.titanocruz.com)
John Moody
Byron Valino

All scenes were shot during the weekend of July 15th through 17th, 2011

This is just a Rough Cut. Please add us on Facebook to be notified when the Final Version is released:

www.facebook.com/darrenbatesphoto


Music By:
Hellogoodbye
"I Never Can Relax"
Would it Kill You?

www.hellogoodbye.net


Special Thanks to Danny Rukasin and Tim Lopez

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• carmageddon
• carmaggedon
• 405
• mulholland
• bridge
• demolition
• Darren Bates
• Darren
• Bates
• Sepulveda
• Pass
• construction
• Kiewit
• freeway
• time
• lapse
• los
• angeles
• closure
• 405 freeway
• time lapse
• time-lapse

[fitzgerald434]

So these are pictures and not video clips? either way this is cool I like L.A :)

[DarrenBatesPhoto]

@fitzgerald434 Yes, they are all still images sequenced together in time-lapse format to give them the appearance of motion. :)

[twinturboteddy]

Great job. I think I met you at the viewing point on the west side of the bridge last sat late afternoon. My name is Teddy

[DarrenBatesPhoto]

@twinturboteddy Hello Teddy. You may have met a few of the other photographers I was working with (John and Byron) But I think I saw you as well, carrying around a Nikon 200 f/2, or 300 2.8. Hope you got some quality shots as well. - Darren

[DarrenBatesPhoto]

Thank you! The length of time for each shot depended on the scene. The closing of the 405 was a 7 hour time lapse, and the re-opening was about 4 hours. But many scenes, like details of the bridge tear-down, were sequences of shots done over 20-30 minutes spans. Everything in this piece is still images. Not a single clip used video to capture the action. -Darren

[MultiMonster69]

What was up with all the street sweepers towards the end

[MrCombineGuy]

1:09 Construction Workers..? Working? Blasphemy!

[kokopelliman66]

i really like your video. i have a couple timelapse video's, you should check some of them out. i will sub to you and i hope you will do the same.

[Nfinch1992]

@nemoall10 no crap. he was being facetious.

[nemoall10]

@anormalno it's probably on purpose, dummy

[anormalno]

the length of the video (4:05) HAS to be a pure coincidence... :)

[InkdGeminiStarlight]

That was a really nice vid. The images were great and I really enjoyed the music. Thank for pointing it out to me Andy!