Focus

Focus refers to the degree of sharpness or distinctness of an image (or an element of an image such as a person, object, etc.); as a verb, it refers to the manipulation or adjustment of the lens to create a sharper image; terms related are deep focus, shallow focus (very common in close-ups), soft focus, and rack focusing.

For our thriller opening we are intending to do a shot were we pan up a gravestone and then focus onto the girls walking past the gravestone. We want to be panning up the gravestone which should be in focus, with the girls out of focus into the background. Then the camera would stop panning and focus onto the girls.

To do this shot we will have to do a practice shot at school, because we are unsure whether the cameras are good enough to do the focusing. So after testing, asking the teachers and technicians, we found that we will be unable to do the shots because the resources at our college are very limited, because of this restriction we decided that we should do an over the shoulder shot instead of changing the focus.