Deep focus is a style or technique of cinematography and staging with great depth of field, using relatively wide-angle lenses and small lens apertures to render in sharp focus near and distant planes simultaneously. A deep-focus shot includes foreground, middle-ground, and extreme-background objects, all in focus.
Negative Review (0:42)
- Film:
- Citizen Kane, 1941
- Director:
- Orson Welles
- Source:
- 2001 Warner Home Video
- Annotated commentary by:
Richard Peña- This clip appears in:
- - Deep Focus
- Long Take
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Walk (0:43)
- Film:
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn, 2003
- Director:
- Tsai Ming-liang
- Source:
- 2005 Fox Lorber Video
- Audio commentary by:
- Richard Peña
- This clip appears in:
- - Deep Focus
- Depth of Field
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