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 special piece of client tech — the iPhone. Boyle informed Wired that through the use of a rig that might maintain 20 iPhone Professional Max cameras, the filmmaking crew created “principally 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) stated 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 stated, noting that the crew shot in elements of Northumbria that appear to be “it could have seemed 1,000 years in the past,” so the iPhone allowed them “to maneuver shortly and calmly to areas of the countryside that we needed to retain their lack of human imprint.”
