Follow Focus and the 7D

I recently shot an interesting short film for State Youth Games, written by Tim Glover of Godwin Pictures.  The great part about it was the we got to shoot with my 7D, and a borrowed rig that had everything from matte box (which we didn’t use) through to powered HDMI monitor, and the most fun, a follow focus.

I’d never used a follow focus before, but have been wishing for the one that comes along with the Captain Stubling rig from Red Rock Micro.  It was great fun.  Apart from the general fun of being able to pull focus gracefully and with a little more ease, it was great fun when Tim the director operated the camera and I pulled focus.  It looked so awesome that I uploaded a little snippet of the un-graded footage to Vimeo.

I’ll certainly post a full version of the video soon.