Hello the internet! I'm Gav
Dan: I'm Dan.
Gav: We're the Slo Mo Guys.
Gav: And we've had a lot of requests BY YOU for drums!
Dan: Yeah, I got my hands on a second-hand war drum-
Gav: Yep, it's massive. Big old bass drum. And a cymbal.
Gav: And we're gonna film it in slow motion, see the frequency moving through them.
Gav: And maybe we'll art it up a little bit.
Dan: Yeah, got some different-coloured powder-paints,
put some liquids on there, see what it all looks like.
Gav: Yeah!
Dan: Yeah, so, shall we see what we can... drum up?
(Rimshot)
Dan: From black-to-black?
Gav: No, no, maybe a couple of inches in from black-to-black.
Dan: So, wider channels of more colour.
Sorta like this.
Gav: Oh, get a bit of that on there.
Bloody hell!
That orange is mental!
Dan: So fine.
Gav: It's the finest powder pit I've ever seen in my life.
Dan: Okay.
Gav: Straight from the bag on that one.
Dan: Straight from the bag. Gav: Ballsy!
Ballsy move.
Okay, so we'll start off filming at a 1000fps in 4K.
Should look top of the morning.
Gav: Bloody lovely!
Dan: Look at that!
Gav: That is... oof!
Gav: So I want to see it from the top-down
but it's all immediately gonna fly out of focus so I'm gonna focus it
sort of predictively-
Dan: I'd say it goes... that's the top of it, that's where it finishes.
So maybe here? Gav: Maybe here? Dan: Yeah.
Gav: Go for it!
Dan: READY!
Gav: Lovely!
Dan: It looks cool!
Dan: Well that is a really cool gradient of colours there. Look at it.
Gav: So hit it from one side and we'll see if we can see the shockwave travel.
Gav: Very good.
Gav: Alright, I want to see this slightly faster so I've switched the resolution to HD
which will give us about 2000fps.
Gav: So we've got a lot of good footage from hitting it on the top of the drum
so we're gonna try and see what it looks like hitting it from the underneath
of the membrane.
Dan: I imagine it will look very different because at the minute, the membrane's doing all the work,
whereas if-
Gav: I feel like what we've done so far, the vibration kicks it all up.
This one, the impact will kick it up.
Dan: And so it will be centered on one point: where I hit, basically.
(Dan groaning) Dan: Oh flip! Ah! Oh God!
Gav: Scary?
Dan: Just really, really bright.
(Gavin giggles) Gav: It's magnifying the sun in your eyes! Dan: Ah! What have you got in here!
Can you get my sunglasses?
They're by the backdoor!
Gav: Look up!
(Gavin laughs)
Gav: There you go.
Dan: Oh, beat!
Gav: What an interesting problem to have!
I didn't think this was going to be- (laughs)
Dan: Oh, this is so much better! Gav: -an obstacle filming this video.
Dan: I didn't predict this either!
Gav: Bloody hell!
That went way higher!
Dan: Did it?
Gav: Yeah! It went in the lens!
Gav: It's very different. I want to try filming it from further back with the slower camera
but I think what you should do is, because you can only hit one spot,
make one mound, but layer all of the colors on top of each other.
Dan: Oh, okay, so just a big pile of all of the colours in the middle.
Gav: Yeah.
The reset time on this one, not too bad.
Dan: How much do you want? Paint me a picture.
Gav: You know the egg in an Egg McMuffin? Dan: Yeah?
Gav: About that size.
Dan: Okay... relative to the rest of the McMuffin?
Gav: Yeah... what do you mean?
Dan: Do you mean including bread, or?
Gav: No, no, just the egg part of the McMuffin.
Dan: Okay.
I understand.
(Gavin laughs)
Gav: You actually might just be better off cutting the bottom off a cup.
Stacking it, then take the cup off.
Dan: I don't like that idea because you thought of it.
Gav: Yep.
Dan: That's the purple.
Gav: Ooft! PFFFFT! It went in my face!
(Dan laughs)
(Gavin coughs and splutters)
Dan: It looks nice on your face!
Look at his haircut!
Gav: Alright, drum looked good.
Let's move onto cymbal and stick that white card you've got right behind it.
Let's see what it looks like.
Dan: Okay, cool.
Gav: I like that a lot better than "random jungle."
Dan: You can see the colours better I suppose as well.
Gav: Yeah.
Gav: Alright, so we've moved over to the shed because that's still in the sun
and we'll actually try paint on the white background this time
because we forgot.
Dan: I forgot.
Gav: Well Dan, I think that was some lovely looking footage.
I'm actually a bit gutted I don't have a 4K TV to watch it on
but hopefully some of you do!
And let me know how it was.
Tweet it to me or something.
Dan: Sorry, I can't... your hair looks stupid. It's ridiculous!
Gav: You got me!
You've actually annihilated me.
It's very rare that I'm the one who gets messy, but-
Dan: Yeah, I'm actually less messy somehow!
Gav: We can't be having that! Dan: I like this!
Gav: We'll have to do something about that.
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Dan: Just go and clean yourself up.
Gav: I'm gonna just...
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