Why Danny Boyle pulled “28 years later” with Iphones

Director Danny Boyle shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 days later” on Canon digital cameras, which allows him to more easily capture the strange scenes of an abandoned London and give the zombies which quickly move a immediately terrifying.

To make his deceased suite “28 years later” (which Open this weekend), Boyle turned to another element of consumer technology – the iPhone. Boyle said to Wired that by using a platform that could contain 20 iPhone Pro Max cameras, the cinema team created “fundamentally a poor man ball time“, Capturing the brutal action scenes from a variety of angles.

Even when he did not use the platform, Boyle (which once Directed a biopic of the co-founder of Apple Steve Jobs) said the iPhone was the “main camera” of the film, although after deactivating parameters such as automatic focus and adding special accessories.

“Filming with iPhones has allowed us to move without huge amounts of equipment,” said Boyle, adding that the team was “able to move quickly and slightly in the countryside that we wanted to keep their lack of human imprint”.