it s what everyone does first but i still find it fascinating that you pop a water balloon, the rubber whips out of there almost immediately, even in slow mo, and then, you re just left with the shape you re left with a big glob of water. i think the most important thing for shooting slow mo, especially when you re getting towards 1000, is you need the right light and you need lots of it. so, for example, under a regular incandescent light bulb orjust like a lamp that you might find at home, chances are you re gonna see the flickering of the electrical grid and it looks really unattractive in slow mo, it s really distracting to see all the lights doing this. yeah. so, shoot outdoors under the sun the sun doesn t flicker or get massive lights like i ve got, which is the more expensive option. laughs. right then. time to make my own slow mo. and in order to get some precision moves at high speed, we re attaching the 2000 frames per second phantom camera to one another high speed
i am going to remember that image for the rest of my life. and interestingly, that s not the last we ve seen of gav, either he s gonna be back in a couple of weeks time to help us film something very cool in slow mo. cooler than that? surely not? even cooler than that. anything to forget that. our next story, though, is about preserving memories those of our loved ones, particularly our elderly relatives. yeah, and someone who has his fair share of stories to tell and wants to make sure they live on forever is hollywood legend william shatner, and nick kwek went to meet him ahead of his 92nd birthday. los angeles the city of angels, where everyone wants to get in front of the camera. camera shutter clicks. welcome to the storyfile studio. 0h, check this out! this start up in the heart of hollywood will give you that opportunity. it ll record your entire life story. get in the hot seat. ok, here we go. here, customers are asked hundreds, sometimes thousands, of questions over sev
it is a fundamental law of the universe that nearly everything looks better in slow mo something that the the slow mo guys have been proving since 2010. three, two, one, go! their 1a million youtube subscribers regularly watch gav and dan slow things down as they blow things up. no one stand in front of the cannon for obvious reasons. dan is ex military and weapons trained, which means he can do this sort of thing. you, on the other hand, can t. and today, i ve come to gav s studio in texas to add to the list of silly things that he s filmed in speaks slowly slow motion. yeah, this is either stuff that we re about to film with or just leftover stuff that we ve already done. like, that s what s left of a newton s cradle after dan shot it. i like the one that stayed on it s quite nice. spencer chuckles. this is probably 500 mousetraps.
after dan shot it. i like the one that stayed on it s quite nice. spencer chuckles. this is probably 500 mousetraps. this is when you threw dan into these mousetraps? yes. they way they all just sort of triggered from the outside inwards, just amazing and that was all within, you know, a few milliseconds when that happened. right, here comes the science bit. now, whereas normal video cameras record something like 25 still images orframes per second, gav uses cameras that capture thousands per second. if you play these back at 25 frames per second, that s where you get your slow mo. they have filmed at over! million frames per second and at that speed, they only have enough storage space to capture two seconds. so, how do you make sure it s the right two seconds? that s actually one of the incredible difficulties when high speed was on film because you have like 1000 feet of film and if you press go, it s gone in, like, seven seconds. so, if something s going
it almost looks as though, like. laughter continues i ve filmed this a few times on a few different people and this one is just really good for some reason. lara: i am going to remember that image for the rest of my life. - and interestingly, that s not the last we ve seen of gav, either he s gonna be back in a couple of weeks time to help us film something very cool in slow mo. cooler than that? surely not? even cooler than that. anything to forget that. our next story, though, is about preserving memories those of our loved ones, particularly our elderly relatives. yeah, and someone who has his fair share of stories to tell and wants to make sure they live on forever is hollywood legend william shatner, and nick kwek went to meet him ahead of his 92nd birthday. los angeles the city of angels, where everyone wants to get in front of the camera. camera shutter clicks