![]() He began working on adverts, music videos, and films such as Hot Fuzz. In 2006, Gavin Free joined Green Door Films, the first production house in Europe to utilise Phantom digital high-speed cameras as a source of slow motion, working as a data technician and camera operator. Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy hosting a panel at RTX 2013 Gruchy would then reference the joke by digging himself out from the ground in the first video he was able join in again in 2022. In video comments of later videos, Free would make a running joke about Gruchy digging a tunnel underneath the Atlantic Ocean to sneak into Texas. ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, as Gruchy lives in the United Kingdom, the international travel restrictions prevented him from travelling to Texas to take part in filming for about a year and a half. In the case of The Super Slow Show and Planet Slow Mo, as the budget of the show increased and more cast was involved, the experiments got larger and more elaborate the availability of a designated camera crew allowed Free to participate in the stunts as well. The episodes are generally filmed in Free's backyard in Austin, Texas, usually with only the two of them involved. Some episodes feature Gruchy explaining how some explosives work, such as grenades and detonation cord, allowing him to draw on his background in the military. Over the years, Gruchy suffered numerous injuries, such as a lacerated ear, a glass shard lodged in his finger, an oil burn and a fractured wrist he jokingly noted that he has suffered more injuries during the filming of the show than during his tour in the Afghanistan war zone. The episodes generally feature Free as the cinematographer and camera operator, and Gruchy, a former ammunition technician corporal in the British Army who served in Afghanistan, as the rigger and often also as the stuntman. To emphasise the science angle, the pair wear lab coats because the original lab coats Free ordered were too small, Gruchy's lab coat has traditionally had a torn off right sleeve. The Slow Mo Guys is heavily influenced by Mythbusters in a typical episode, Free and Gruchy attempt to film some sort of natural or physical phenomenon in extreme slow motion: subjects of the filming are often some type of spectacular chemical or physical reaction, stress tests of certain objects under extreme conditions, while some episodes simply aim for an aesthetically pleasing result, often by the use of rainbow-coloured paints.
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