Pre-production Planning-Shallow Depth of Field Experimentation - Dilys

When story-boarding our opening we thought it would be very effective to include a shallow depth of field shot to show the significance of the grave and the fact that Chantelle has decided to visit it. We decided that first we would have the grave in focus and the flowers and Chantelle out of focus and then pull Chantelle and the flowers into focus and have the grave distorted in the background as it would have a good impact and emphasis the connection between the two. However when we practiced with a bad and rolled up paper we found that the camera would only give a sharp quality shot of the bag if it was zoomed right in and the same for the paper. So we have decided to change the shot and instead an extreme close up of the flower buds and part of the grave in the background. We decided that this would still convey the same message to our audience and would a give us a much sharper image.