I don’t know how many of you noticed it, but I know some of you did. The site was a little messed up yesterday and today. I tried to upgrade Expression Engine to the most recent release. I had let it get a couple of upgrades behind, and the upgrade didn’t go so well. Turns out it was…

After a little hiatus I would like to resume my filmic series articles.

This time I’ll write about depth of field. Depth of field is yet another of those qualities that really set apart high budget films (which are typically shot with high dollar lenses).

To get started, we need to understand some basic principles regarding depth of field…

I’ve watched Blade Runner a bunch of times.  I’m enough of a die-hard that I have the original version on VHS, plus the Director’s Cut on DVD.  It’s in my Top 10 favorite films.  It’s worth seeing just for the sets.  Remember, this is all pre-CGI.  Everything that you see was built from scratch.

It’s also inspired by the sort of detective fiction that I’ve been reading of late.  So I wanted to watch it again from this angle.  I’ve viewed it many times from the SF angle.  This time, I wanted to see it as a noir…