#Slomo watch series
On 20 February 2013, Free confirmed that the series had been picked up by Rooster Teeth and that further episodes of the series would be released on Rooster Teeth's website, as well as the series' existing YouTube channel. In September 2012, their episode involving crushing watermelons was featured on The Tonight Show.
In April 2011, the channel was voted the winner of YouTube's On The Rise program, which highlights up-and-coming YouTube partners on the homepage. he said, "oh you must be the slow mo guys," and I thought that sounds pretty good." Success And he hopped over the wall as we were setting up the Phantom. " Hammond was the first person to ever refer to me as a "slow mo guy" because he knew there was a high-speed camera on the shoot that we were doing, which was him going around in a Formula 1 car. According to Free, the name partially comes from a comment Richard Hammond made on the set of Top Gear: The Slow Mo Guys, featuring slow motion footage of various pranks and stunts of the pair, has garnered millions of views since it launched in 2010.
įree and Gruchy met while working in a Waitrose in their home county of Oxfordshire. Being a video/film producer, he decided to utilise his access to slow motion cameras to create The Slow Mo Guys along with his friend Daniel Gruchy, and reach viral success. Afterwards, he had decided to make a move to Austin, Texas and work full-time for Rooster Teeth, for which he needed to get a work visa however, as he didn't go to university, his only option was an application for an O visa, a visa that requires an "extraordinary achievement" in arts or science. In 2008, he was hired to direct the seventh season of the Rooster Teeth machinima series Red vs. 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, usually by the use of rainbow-coloured paints.
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