The film look
I don't know much about film perspective,light,lenses and so on but i do love the look of the film.Do you know how to achieve it? any suggestion will be useful.thank you.
shareNot that much trickery to it really, the films uses mostly a studio setting and manufactured environments and clothes make up with the preferred look and lightning. In fact even a lot, if not most, of the exterior shots are stage and painted backdrops. Probably not to strong lightning and high gain film stock are used too.
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Thank you, but i'm talking about lenses and camera stuff in order to achieve that depth of focus.
shareI think that lots of detail in respect to lighting was going on to make some of the scenes seem almost like a surreal painting. Much time was sent arranging the perspectives and applying various lighting and such.
I think in respect to the lenses / cameras: I found many of the scenes very soft. I don't know if that was intentional, but at first I thought the crew just didn't have the money to rent better lenses, but as time went on, it seemed evident that it was the chosen style.
Depth of focus is not rocket science, in that a deep depth of focus requires a smaller aperture (larger number) on the lens. But this can be trickier for film than it is for still photography; in general, I believe lots more light is required because the lens has to be shut down so much (letting less light in, but giving a deeper DOF).
I have seen film sets where they use large amounts of lighting even on daytime shots filmed outside. A lot of times, this is also to control the dynamic range (not wanting one side of the actors face to be dark and featureless, for instance). But it is probably also sometimes used for DOF control.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that Roy Andersson appreciates the film work of Wes Anderson.
Edit: but also, I think there is also the lens choice, not just choosing a smaller aperture on any lens. There are probably lenses that are known to be better for this than others. It's certainly true that there are lenses known for the exact opposite, giving a better out-of-focus look for shallower DOF.