Fascinating short by Dan Chung along with a great writeup on how he put it all together.

© Dan Chung

Even more fas­ci­nat­ing is the fact that he did it on a lim­ited time, bud­get & crew; I dare not say that he’s shoot­ing with a lim­ited equip­ment, but 20kg of lug­gage lim­i­ta­tion means lit­tle for a filmmaking-shooter. Here’s his take about the wide shot on mark 00:54 —

One shot I was keen to get was of the boy and trainer walk­ing off from a high angle. Sadly I didn’t have a Kessler Crane to hand so I had to make do. I held up in the air my 5DmkII with the 12-24mm on top of a Man­frotto video mono­pod, wedg­ing the mono pod’s lit­tle feet against my body. I started with it at head height next to the trainer and as they walked off I slowly raised the cam­era to fake a jib effect. It’s far from per­fect but I think it was worth a try. When I came to edit it I applied Final Cut Pro’s Smooth cam fil­ter to iron out any minor bumps.

The rest of the site offers a wealth of tid­bits on DSLR Filmmaking.