![]() "We did start off more even in the early videos. I try and it'll just be embedded in the ground next to it. "Yeah, you can put that in there," Free said. "Plus he's an absolute wuss," said Gruchy. A lot of technical stuff is camera-specific – you need to know about the way light works and that sort of stuff." "If you gave the Phantom camera to someone in the street they wouldn't be able to figure out how to use it. "It started because I had high-speed camera skills," said Free. I'd say I'm more like special effects, stunts. "Mainly I'd say it's because Gav's the camera expert and the director of things. "Yes, this is definitely true", said Gruchy. We knew what to expect because someone had tweeted us, but when I saw it in person, I was like, 'Oh, god' – I wanted to hide." "I'm only back for a few days, so we went down to the underground to look at the giant poster of us. "It's so surreal at the moment," said Free. YouTube is currently running a huge poster campaign featuring the pair, which they find simultaneously awesome and – being British – deeply embarrassing. "You get a lot of older people saying, 'My son loves you, he'll be so jealous I've met you.'" Free said his dad recently had the police round after he'd been robbed, and the officers were stunned to see his picture sitting on the mantelpiece. "We get stopped a lot in Thame," Gruchy said. ![]() And of course, as I'm going through he says, 'Stop sir, you'll need to do that in slow motion.'"Įveryone loves them. "I was at the x-ray machines and the guy told me to take my belt off. "I was at the airport today," Gruchy said. When I met them at YouTube's offices in London, they certainly didn't act like celebrities, and seemed to find the whole thing almost as surprising as anyone else. It's a surreal thing to happen to two very normal guys from a small Oxfordshire town, Thame, who one day decided to film some silly stuff in slow motion and upload it to the internet. Over 4,500,000 people subscribe to their channel. 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.And they really are famous, you know. 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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