Shoulda used 28
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28 iphones later...
"My god, what's affecting those customers?!"
"Rage."
It’s only used for certain shots. They shot most of the movie with a single iPhone.
What he is creating is a shifting effect where the camera moves quickly to the right and the left while the zombie is running to create this chaotic feeling while it’s sprinting.
The Matrix originally did this to get that crazy frozen-in-the-air spin shot. Bullet time was revolutionary and everyone was copying them for ages...
IIRC the question was, 'can we put a camera on a rocket?'
And then the solution was Victorian. The same shit Muybridge did for a galloping horse, one hundred and twenty years earlier.
For real? Why?
28 Days Later also used one of the first digital-only production cameras Sony put out at the time. It’s something the director does and it’s kinda neat. This is why there’s no real high quality versions of 28 Days, but it’s also kinda why it has more charm.
I tried to watch it again recently and it looks like absolute trash. I appreciate directors being experimental but at least with old analog formats they scale pretty well with modern resolutions.
I enjoyed rewatching both first and second films recently and I think they hold up pretty well on my 4K TV. What specifically made them look like absolute trash to you?
The first was filmed with extremely low resolution, so it looks like it was filmed in extremely low resolution
I personally appreciate the aesthetic of the original. To each their own I guess 😊
I'm with you on that. Gives a rawness and out of sorts kind of feeling that Jim would have been experiencing.
But it's one of my favourite movies, so I'm biased. It's up there with Train to Busan for zombie-flicks for me.
the director
Put some respect on the name: Danny freakin’ Boyle.
I read the article, and I understand their reasoning. But I hate movies that to that shaky camera effect. I don't want be there or feel I watching it from someone phone or hand camcorder. Sucks was looking forward to seeing this. But don't see it worth wasting my money and time in a theater to do so. Glad for article to warn me of the quality I am going get.
Did the article say it was shaky? Even if they didn't use the iPhone image stabilization, surely they could adjust it in post-production so it looks good.
Too bad there's no article that immediately explains why...
It's used only in certain scenes, and he said the minor shifts in perspective will be used in editing to create certain effects.
Can't they use better cameras to achieve the same effect?
I'd assume they went this route for weight saving. Quite possibe that the end effect doesn't need cinema quality cameras either. I think he even mentioned this as like a mobile poor man's bullet time rig.
The original was shot on handycam video cameras to give it a raw feeling. Danny Boyle says he was shooting it all on iPhone to get a modern version of that.
yes
Thanks 👍
More expensive though.
Not really, you would need multiple cameras from multiple perspectives to do the same thing regardless. There is no camera of any quality that can take a picture from 5 feet to the left of where it's sitting.
Price/performance ratio usually
Cheaper to get 20 iPhones on a custom rig vs some other solution
And you can just sell them for 80% of purchase value after 😀
It's literally explained in the article that 80% of commenters here clearly didn't read
IPhone ad.
That means it should have some sick original Matrix style slow-mo shots, right? 😃
I can't fucking wait for this film
I just hope it's not another super close up, motion sickness inducing, shaky-cam puke-fest like 28 Weeks was. I really wanted to like that movie but that style of action filming makes me car sick. I don't get how people enjoy shaky-cam movies
I'll be in the Teather to see the 20-iPhone camera set-up.
28 Decades Later will be shot in 13:1 surround vision, captured on the director’s watch. And still win twenty awards.