- Hello, I'm Gav. - I'm Dan.
Welcome to the first episode of "Planet Slow Mo."
For the next 12 weeks, we're gonna be travelling around the world
to all kinds of exotic locations.
We've separated each episode into two parts.
In part one, we'll travel somewhere we've never been before,
film something pretty wicked in slow-mo.
And in part two, we'll take a deeper dive into the science of what we've shot
and analyze our footage.
For the first episode, I thought we'd go somewhere cool.
I like it, I like what you've done there.
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Today we're on a glacier in Iceland.
- Where's that? - That's in Iceland.
- That makes sense. - Makes sense.
Yeah. So wait, if we're on a glacier,
does that mean we're already moving in super slow-mo?
Yeah, this is literally the perfect place for us.
- Yeah. - We're gonna travel around Iceland
and film some of its natural beauties
in some lovely 4K 1,000 frames a second slow-motion.
And it should look lush.
Mm. Should we start with the geyser?
Start with the-- which way is that?
Actually, I don't know.
There's not really any identifiable...
Should we just head in a direction and hope for the best?
Yeah, let's go to the white.
All right, yeah.
- ( grunts ) - ( laughs )
Oh, you Muppet.
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This is the Strokkur Geyser.
You nailed that Icelandic.
Thank you. Or if you're English,
- the Strokkur Geyser. - Man: Whoo!
Or if you're American, "Guy-zer."
- Whatever, right? - Is that right, "guy-zer"?
Yeah.
- We're all correct. - Yeah.
It goes off every five to ten minutes.
And we've seen it hit 40 meters in the air.
- It's gone really high. - Really high.
- Yeah. - So we're gonna whip out the Phantom Flex 4K
and get some lovely 1,000-frames-a-second shots
of it going off.
Smells a bit like eggs.
Sorry, that was me that one.
- Oh, was that you? - Yeah.
Gav: All right, here we are.
Filming in the rain, bit of a mare.
Uh, why won't-- oh!
- Oh! - That was a good one.
That was a bloody good one.
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Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
It's almost coming out the side.
Came out at like four different places at once there.
Gav:
Wow, that was a great one.
How wicked.
- That was wicked. - That was perfect.
That particular one there was a really bubbly one.
That might be the bubbliest one that I've seen.
It sort of like slowly does it
and then eventually explodes.
Sometimes it just goes straight up.
- Should we watch that back? - Yeah.
Gav:
- Ooh! - Okay, look at that.
- God. - It's really blue under there.
It looks like a giant, it's just explosion
underneath all the water.
And then it finally-- see where it breaks the tension
- of the water there? - Yeah.
- That was cool. - Gav:
of the bubble first, that's where it rushes out
and then it immediately drains the bubble.
Dan:
Seems like it's completely random.
- Totally random. - It's just based on what bubble comes up.
Yeah.
( people clamoring )
Gav:
Dan:
Where's it break? Oh, there it goes
- Dan:
Dan:
Really gets quite big before it explodes
and then it just loses it.
I feel like it'd be really good if we got...
the top down, like looking...
- Ah, I'll stop you there. - Yeah?
- I got it covered. - All right.
- I've been working on something. - Okay.
- Right then. - Phantom with a drone.
Right, so by working on it,
you mean you've tied your drone to the Phantom with string.
- Yeah. - Okay.
Are you concerned with the weight of the Phantom
and the fact that it's got a massive, heavy lens on it?
- No. - No, it'll be fine, right?
- Yeah. - All right, let's give it a go.
Okay, here we go.
This is typically a no-drone area,
but we have got special permission.
Stand back.
( grunts ) Come on!
- Come on! - Dan.
Dan, I'll stop you there.
I'll stop you there.
I've got something different in mind.
All right.
Why don't you look up?
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- Well, hello. - Hello.
This is the biggest drone I've ever seen.
You want to tell us about it?
It is probably one of the largest commercial drones in the world
for aerial photography.
Of all the Phantoms we've ever used,
this is the biggest one.
The biggest Phantom? Yeah.
Dan: We've also got a bunch of other stuff
that's not supposed to be on there.
The household router there.
We can't trail a long BNC cable from a drone
so we have a Wi-Fi router
and then using an app on my phone to trigger the camera.
We also have full lens control, so that's nice.
The batteries are powering the drone,
the router, the camera and everything,
so you haven't got much flight time.
What's our flight time today, do you think,
- off one set of batteries? - Around eight minutes.
Dan: So I would say it's Jerry-rigged completely.
- Yeah. - Can't trigger it normally.
- Yeah. - And it's pretty much
not ideal conditions in any way.
Well, and we're flying it right over a giant water spout.
Yeah, I guess there's a water hazard as well.
Yeah. Right, I say we get it up in the air.
Let's do it.
That's a lot of money in the air right now.
Dan: It really is.
Is that the riskiest position
our Phantom's ever been in?
Probably.
Got it, got it, sweet.
Bring it back in. ( chuckles )
Change batteries.
I like his jacket.
"Drone pilot, do not interrupt."
Dan: I want one of those just for everyday life.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Nice.
You can see more of the bubbles coming up.
Gav:
Dan:
Do you think we should get one where there's slightly less of this foreground,
a bit more headroom?
- If we shoot more this way... - Yeah.
...we'll have more mountain to...
- That's a good point. - ...before it hits the sky.
Dan: I like it.
( chuckles )
Maybe further back just a touch.
- Jon: Over here? - Oh, that's great.
- Good? - That's really good.
Whoa, yeah.
( grunts )
Got it.
Let's play it from here.
Dan:
Gav:
Pfft. Oh.
Ooh, yeah.
Dan:
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it's kind of beefy and came out sideways.
Gav:
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It makes a difference being up this high
because we've got the backdrop of the trees,
which is easier to see the spray.
Yeah, that's something we couldn't get from the ground level, is it?
Because the sky is so white,
there was no difference in contrast,
but that is lovely, that's a real good visual
of how high it goes.
The fact that it cleared the mountains
-
Gav:
Like look right down the hole.
Do you know what? I don't think--
No one has ever seen that before.
When would that have happened before with--
Like, that would never be...
- I don't know. - That'd be cool.
- Has it happened before? - Might've.
Oh, we'll do it anyway.
I think we should, yeah, I think we should look
right down the blowhole.
Yeah.
I'm nervous for his drone and the camera.
- Should we go higher? 'Cause... - No, that's good.
Yeah, but I'm saying that like...
Might get hit.
Right.
This shot should be money.
Do you reckon you could go a bit higher?
That's pretty low.
Dan: Ooh!
Jesus Christ!
Holy crap.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Took an absolute washing.
All right, hold on.
Oh.
( sighs )
We put the camera in some risky positions before.
Above a boiling hot geyser
is probably one of the riskier places it's ever been.
Is it playing on there?
Oh, you can see it coming from so far down.
Dan:
Gav:
It's pretty deep.
It's like the Earth's sneeze.
Dan:
Gav:
It absolutely soaked the camera.
Water that went all up it.
And then I was like, "Get it out of there!"
And then it all came on down.
It was like... it's getting it again.
Oh, it was intense.
It's just complete whiteout.
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
Well, I feel very lucky that we've got all these shots
and we haven't binned the camera or the drone.
- Well... - So...
- Well, we got it wet. - Well...
Eh, completely soaked it, but, yeah.
But why don't we move to a different location?
- Okay. Yeah. - Sound good?
Well, look at this, here we are
at a lovely new location.
That's right, we're at the "Gunfoss..."
Gun...
What is it?
Hold on.
What's this... what's this waterfall called?
Gullfoss.
- Gu... - Gullfoss.
Gul... Gullfoss.
All right, thanks, cheers.
The Gull...
The Gull... what he said waterfall, okay?
The what-he-said waterfall.
And we're gonna put the camera back on the drone,
and get some lovely slow-mo shots of the water.
- Yeah. - We know him, don't worry about it.
Come on.
That is so far away.
Dan: It's far.
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Gav:
That was actually an interesting one because,
even though it didn't require anything from us subject wise,
we decided to film it in the most difficult way possible.
Yeah, let's just put the Phantom in the sky and film it from there.
- Yeah. - And it may have got a little bit wet,
but thankfully we still got a Phantom
and a lovely drone.
Hopefully you enjoyed that video.
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and other episodes of "Planet Slow Mo."
Thank you very much for watching.
Bloody love Iceland.
- It's gorgeous. - Yeah.
- So nice. - Could stay here an extra day.