![]() ![]() Some episodes feature Gruchy explaining how some explosives work, such as grenades and detonation cord, allowing him to draw on his background in the military. Over the years, Gruchy suffered numerous injuries, such as a lacerated ear, a glass shard lodged in his finger, an oil burn and a fractured wrist he jokingly noted that he has suffered more injuries during the filming of the show than during his tour in the Afghanistan war zone. The episodes generally feature Free as the cinematographer and camera operator, and Gruchy, a former ammunition technician corporal in the British Army who served in Afghanistan, as the rigger and often also as the stuntman. The most prominent of the few stains on Free's lab coat is a blue paint smear on the right shoulder " autographed" by a Blue Man. ![]() Gruchy's lab coat is the more stained of the two, with Free's coat in fairer condition. Because the original lab coats Free ordered were too small for Gruchy, Gruchy's lab coat tore and has traditionally had a torn off right sleeve. To emphasise the science angle, the pair wear lab coats. ![]() The Slow Mo Guys is heavily influenced by Mythbusters in a typical episode, Free and Gruchy attempt to film some sort of natural or physical phenomenon in extreme slow motion: subjects of the filming are often some type of spectacular chemical or physical reaction, stress tests of certain objects under extreme conditions, while some episodes simply aim for an aesthetically pleasing result, often by the use of rainbow-coloured paints. The series consists of a wide variety of things filmed in extreme slow motion using a range of Vision Research Phantom high-speed cameras, capable of shooting over 1,500,000 frames per second. It has been described as the biggest channel for slow motion videos on YouTube. When we went to an East London studio to meet The Slo Mo Guys, we didn't expect to see an entire building full of journalists and camera crews, all there to watch two large balloons filled with paint crashing into each other.īut Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy, who started their channel with a $150,000 high speed camera, are not your average YouTubers.The Slow Mo Guys is a science and technology entertainment web series from Thame, England, created by Gavin Free, starring himself and Daniel Gruchy. Yes, they're just regular guys, but they figured out a way to do mind-blowing videos on a scale that nobody else was doing – and now their YouTube channel is a globally recognised tech and entertainment series. When I started chatting to them about the their videos (and watching some myself in the name of research) I saw why their subscribers have jumped to 7.5 million in two years. Watching the stuff they film is like watching a car crash you can't look away from. "That’s what we like our footage to be like: you want to look away but you can’t," Dan told me later.įrom stretching a condom over Dan's head to literally filming Dan's tonsils as he gargles, their videos really do cover everything you could ever want to see in slow motion, and one or two things you didn't know you wanted to see. "We’ve got weird ones, animal ones, fascinating ones, science ones, disgusting ones, painful ones," says Dan (the latter possibly referring to that condom stretched over his head). What was your inspiration for the slow motion concept? We sat down with them to discuss how they built one of YouTube's most-subscribed channels. It’s like all of this stuff happens right in front of you but you just can’t see it and that’s fascinating to me.ĭG: Yeah, some of the best moments are when you watch back the footage and you go ‘Who knew that that actually happened? Has anyone even seen this before?’ GF: I was just very keen on seeing stuff that you see all the time with your own eye, just in a completely different way. GF: Like every time it rains, and water hits a puddle, you can get like a droplet that will bounce back up out of the puddle and another droplet that will hit it and it makes like little umbrella shapes. ![]()
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