Deep Focus

Here is a classic example of Deep Focus Cinematography from the guys who prett much perfected it - Gregg Toland and Orson Welles, in Citizen Kane.

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[Fripitto]

@canoners It allows you too choose what you want to look at, and thus makes the scene more ambiguous (for instance, when you see the boy playing outside the window, while his mother signs the papers that will end that playful time). If they hadn't done that in deep focus, you would have had two shots with a cut instead of one single shot that shows both planes of the action.

(I'm just parroting classic film theory on this one, but it's true nonetheless.)

[LordDarthMalak]

it is absolutly brilliant, I didn't realize deep focus had so many advantages.

[NewAgeDirector]

Great video keep up the good work.

[zak260]

Thanks! the video and comments (especially Fripitto) have helped me understand the concept and advantages of deep focus

[hsantand]

@Fripitto Still two shots are very conventional in comparison, and rather cumbersome. The composition here is like in classical painting. Cinema is still awaiting for its Da Vinci.

[acousticitie]

First of all, I like that this is listed under "education"...

It's so amazing that this was made without any cuts, and how entertaining it is to see the background and foreground interacting:-)

[directorlog]

Should be more deep focus shot these days, to much deep of field in movies, you lose a lot of composition set-ups.

[datalal624]

Wow. Awesome scene!

[canoners]

why did they use deep focus for this?

isnt blur a more advantageous option?

i dont really get it