Thanks Yaniv! Regardless of the content, I strive to produce the best possible product for my clients, both in terms of the visual AND audio aspects of the end product.

I'm all in regarding the quality of the piece.

A couple questions-
Would you describe your focus pulling workflow?

How did you do those micro moves during the interviews?

Did you hold the shutter speed at 1/50 or 1/60 or? I sometimes have trouble with too much light shooting wide open at 2.8/24p/50th...did you run into that issue at all?

thanks

"How did you do those micro moves during the interviews?"

really good question...YouTube - Fault Lines - Dying Inside: Elderly in prison!

this is the video that gave me the idea of using my slider during the interviews; so I give this guy the credit. (this is an incredibly well done piece)

Shooting at 1.4, I had to continually pull focus as I moved the camera closer to the interviewees. And this was all filmed @ 1080/24P, shutter was 1/50 sec.

"Would you describe your focus pulling workflow"

I'm not sure I know how to respond to this question. I didn't use a FF, nor would I ever with a DSLR on sticks. I like to keep my hand on the lens barrel because it provides just a bit of resistance that forces me to pan slowly and enables me to make continual focus changes throughout the pan without jarring the camera. I prefer to use the onboard 3" LCD screen over the cheap 7" Lilliput screen I have because the onboard screen seems to be so much higher rez, which helps me pull focus quickly. Other than that, I eye it up and let it rip like everyone else. I do look for highly detailed patterns in objects and clothing, and I find that is as close as it gets to the split screens in the old manual SLRs of many years ago. It helps having a lot of experience using these old lenses too - I started shooting film on those old manual cameras when I was ~ 10, I'll be 39 in a couple of weeks.

I think the 1.6x crop factor vs. FF is absolutely perfect for employing selective focus without going so far that focus simply becomes unmanageable. I plan on buying several 550Ds after seeing the results.

Nice work Aaron!

Visually, you made some not-so-outwardly-pretty-people look quite nice. And unlike much of what's produced today from various religious perspectives (and main-stream media, for that matter), you conveyed a positive message. From the perspective of a one-time athiest with a BA in "religions of the world," I like seeing people who are passionate about whatever they believe, assuming that passion doesn't justify deliberate harm to another.

Again, very nice work!