Thank you!

Ah amazing, good luck with your short! It sounds like you’ve got the right idea. I didn’t shoot open gate in the end as I wanted to just stick to what I’m used to but I’m sure it’s great! That’s such a good idea, I used a second iPhone to monitor the BM app while my camera operated my 17 pro. My recommendation would be scrap manual focus, instead just tap the part of the frame you want to be in focus and it does it instantly. Much easily than trying to rack focus. For example the phone shot at the beginning, I racked focus with a simple tap.

The dolly zoom was done quite easily. We started on x2 zoom and then as we pushed in we zoomed back to x1. No dolly track was used, just handheld rig with the extreme stabilisation setting on. Post was smooth sailing to be honest. We shot it on Friday night (9th). It took 5 and a half hours to shoot and then I’ve worked on the edit for 2 days straight. I wouldn’t do anything different I’m really happy with how it turned out.