DRAINED

Synopsis: Told with animation and live-action, ’Drained’ tells the story of how a man’s addictions can destroy the woman he loves. DRAINED -- Directed by Nick Peterson Produced by Nick Peterson & Jon Heder Adam Boalt, Leslie Rose Director of Photography Chris Saul Music by Chris Bacon Fun Facts • The funding was raised through , a crowd-source funding website. • To give this film a unique look, the entire film was shot with still photographs at a speed of 8 frames per second. All 254,000 still frames were shot with a single Canon DSLR 7D camera. • In order to compensate for the slow frame rate of 8 seconds, the actors had to move 3 times slower than normal while covered in makeup, wearing masks, and with blinding strobe lights flashing in sync with the camera at 8 flashes per second. • While shooting the Director and DP were unable to look through the eyepiece of the camera and had to kind of guess where the actors were in the shot during e