Slow motion is film shot fast and played back at normal speed, so everything happens slowly. More frames in, the same frames out.
That is the whole trick, since shooting at two hundred frames a second and playing at twenty-five stretches one second into eight. Sport uses it for replays and film uses it for drama. The phrase in slow motion describes any moment that seems to stretch, which is a real effect of adrenaline on how memory records time.
1nounslow motionFilm played back more slowly than it was recorded.
“The replay was shown in slow motion three times.”
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Photography & Film
First appears in chapter 9 of A Man Called Ove.
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