Pull Focus

Pulling Focus

Pulling focus is a creative camera technique, which is also referred to as racking focus; "racking focus is the process of switching the focal point from one subject/object in a frame to another subject/object."DVC,2013. Usually this is done to indicate to the audience where to direct their attention on screen, such as when somebody speaks the focus would be pulled towards the subject speaking rather than on the subject listening.

To explore how this is done, I decided to film my friends going about their usual Saturday business, learning how to pull in and out of focus on my subjects smoothly when they moved in order to keep the focal point on them rather than on their surroundings.




My own attempts at rack focusing in a park
and also using my dog as a composition.


An example of a rack focus from Joon-ho Bong's
"The Host" (2006). Here the director draws attention
to different characters in the chase scene's foreground,
middle and background; this highlights where the
director wants to look in the crowd of people.

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