From the course: Learning Cinematography: 3 Hands On Techniques
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Pulling focus
From the course: Learning Cinematography: 3 Hands On Techniques
Pulling focus
- The cinematographer doesn't pull focus but we have to understand it because of the second and third parts of our three responsibilities. That of an artist, a technician, and a manager of personnel and facilities. What we're talking about here is math. We have to take a series of factors and boil these down to a decision about sharpness. The factors are focal length, distance, f stop notice I didn't say t stop, and the circle of confusion. The first camera assistant, that's Tito here, working with Josh our operator, Tito's responsible for executing focus during the shot. The technical aspects of the design of the shot are ultimately the responsibility of the cinematographer. The cinematographer has to understand the current focus situation because he or she created it. Now is everything in motion? In this case no, the camera's stable, the subject's stable. Is the scene unrealistically dark? You know movie dark is different from real dark, in this situation we got plenty of light. One…
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