Lenses/focal length

Fish eye lens

Fish eye lens

• Wide, distorted image

• Isn’t in usual state, insanity

Soft focus

• Popular in 50s-60s, filtered

• Dreamy, romantic setting

Deep focus

• Allows everything in the frame to be in crisp focus

• Sends signifier that everything is important

Shallow focus

• Character is focused, emulsifies how human eye works

• Important moments, individual objects

Racking focus / focus pull

• Adjusting focus within a shot

• Gives a sense of scale

Dolly / Hitchcock zoom

• camera moves forward while lens is going back

• Uneasy effect, panic, madness, drama

Canted / Dutch tilt

• Off kilter or wonky

• Reflects characters frame of mind