In order to capture the spooky landscapes of an abandoned London and give the film’s fast-moving zombies a scary immediacy, director Danny Boyle famously used Canon digital cameras to shoot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later.”
Boyle used a different piece of consumer technology, the iPhone, to create his decades-later sequel, “28 Years Later,” which debuted this weekend. In order to capture the violent action scenes from several perspectives, Boyle told Wired that the film crew used a system that could accommodate 20 iPhone Pro Max cameras, creating “essentially a poor man’s bullet time.”
Boyle, who previously directed a biography on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, claimed that the iPhone remained the film’s “primary camera” even when he was not using the rig, but only after turning off features like automatic focus and adding unique attachments.
“Using iPhones for filming allowed us to move without a lot of equipment,” Boyle said, adding that the team was able to “move quickly and lightly to areas of the countryside that we wanted to retain their lack of human imprint” because they were shooting in areas of Northumbria that looked like “it would have looked 1,000 years ago.”
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