Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic traditional “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it simpler for him to seize eerie scenes of an deserted London, and giving the film’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy.
To make his decades-later sequel “28 Years Later” (which opened this weekend), Boyle turned to a unique piece of client tech — the iPhone. Boyle told Wired that through the use of a rig that would maintain 20 iPhone Professional Max cameras, the filmmaking crew created “mainly a poor man’s bullet time,” capturing the brutal motion scenes from a wide range of angles.
Even when he wasn’t utilizing the rig, Boyle (who as soon as directed a biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs) mentioned the iPhone was the film’s “principal digicam,” albeit after disabling settings like computerized focus and including particular equipment.
“Filming with iPhones allowed us to maneuver with out enormous quantities of kit,” Boyle mentioned, including that the crew was “in a position to transfer rapidly and frivolously to areas of the countryside that we needed to retain their lack of human imprint.”