The Art of Pulling Focus

[@MattBrosey]

More like the art of getting fired on your first day as a focus puller.

[@kaktamdela]

😅

[@jan-k7x1c]

I'm personally offended by the aspect ratio of this video

[@aliensoup2420]

Operator stops short of mark : "It's out of focus" AC : "Well, you didn't hit your mark". Doesn't matter where the camera is, you keep it in focus regardless of where the marks are. You use that rangefinder inside your skull.

[@mockelmon7614]

The behind the scene guy is pulling better focus lol

[@richalexander4768]

I find focus pulling very challenging. Thank you for posting this.

[@MrHatinallday]

I disagree with some of the things the focus puller does in this video. There are several times where he changes elements of the scene like "slow your walk down for me" "give me more lead time" and the shot with the water bottle changed to showing him putting it down instead of picking it up. Some DP's will just hire a new focus puller at the end of the day. The tool set is not ideal so some of the shots have to be changed for that reason, which is not the 1st AC's fault in this situation. Also The red rock ff is has some play making those direction changes more difficult than they would be with a better follow focus. A whip and speed crank is a really hard way to pull focus, a wireless unit would definitely be the best but you can't do that if you don't have the budget for it. Another important note is where he is measuring to, this camera has an adapter which is where the image resolves to so he measures to the lens adapter (letus?), on almost any other camera you measure to the sensor plane. Props to the old school way of pulling focus which is very difficult, but you can't change the shot for anything other than something physically impossible like minimum focus issues or tight places with no path to work.

[@JosephVM]

I think they tried to teach something but failed terribly!

[@Vlfkfnejisjejrjtjrie]

I would have mistaken the focus puller for the maintenance guy. Focus pulling is not his day job, right?

[@MattBrosey]

2:05 - "My hand got stuck." ...smh...

[@Ratabavlaski]

I love it. Many thanks 🎉😂

[@NatesFilmTutorials]

Wow such precision in each shot! I really enjoyed this video. :)

[@doszlopleonard6031]

I bet you forgot you even left this comment

[@vipinbaliga7760]

Thanks for showing this. Such a skilled job!

[@videoninja2512]

yeah man. I'm not union (yet) and if I did this kind of stuff I'd be gone.

[@StereoChimps]

the screen should of been facing the the rack focus operator would be much easier

[@vikas274]

90s was so tough. Now you have programable rack focus

[@-PPitchaikani]

I am from India. I am working as a focus puller in Tamil movie industry. Our industry low budget movies using maximum Cp2 lenses. Our industry camera rental office don't maintenance Lenses so that lenses haven't exact focus calibrat but we are working with that lens.

[@shahzaibalyarif]

So how you manually focus the subjects, ?

[@donavin51]

Very impressive. Wow!

[@gugughama]

What you guys are doing ? xD this looks so stupid if you worked on an actual professional set

[@CaptureYouVideo]

what a messy thing that was ? lets yank the lead camera around with a tether cable >? surely there is a better option ?

[@CaptureYouVideo]

MOST OF THAT was out of focus ????? WHAT THE ACTUAL F ?

[@enduraman1]

What focus pulling equipment are you using?

[@lindadp1]

+Brian Kenneth Kondas (Ken) Redrock micro

[@milanxko]

By the end of the video I was concerned this is a comedy.

[@alexmendoza335]

Good to know he saved so much time using his wingspan instead of using the tape measure that is literally in his fucking hand🤦‍♂️

[@buddybonus10]

This focus guy is full of excuses,crap focus puller

[@RichardDuryea]

I'm thinking about getting a headset monitor to use to pull focus. Thoughts?

[@BradleyThomas]

But if you have a monitor, it's way easier to hit the shots. Some of these would have been so much quicker if he had a monitor to look at.

[@LilmangG]

Wtf wat camera is that it look like machine gun bro

[@1SheepishWolf]

I had no idea tbis was a thing. When I worked in a media department we just eyeballed it as camera operators.

[@YoungBlaze]

This is a little um Cumbersome

[@totallycheckthisout]

thanks guys cool :)

[@Sharpdus]

Use the hf dude

[@federicorinaldi344]

This is embarassing xD

[@OldSchoolDudeGaming]

This is just one big mess.

[@pateachongthu]

Isn't it easier to use auto focus? I am confused

[@mcquangus]

Patea Chongthu cinema cams don’t usually have auto, because professionals don’t use it

[@aleetee2003]

You have way more control of your focus when you manually pull it. You're not always wanting to focus on the main subject. You also can't achieve as smooth of a focus pull with autofocus.

[@philippwelsing5233]

"Take this to your eye!" What? This seems like a very long video on things to definitely avoid when pulling focus on a professional set. It is also painful to watch. "Try not to move that chair." Poor guy literally has to sit down on a rolling office chair. "The Art Of Pulling Focus". More like "The Art Of Not Nailing Focus Once Despite Many Useless Measurements Involving Or Not Involving Arm's Length, Hardly Ever Marking Anything On The Disc And In The End Blaming It On The Actor Or Saying 'Sorry, such a long pull...'"

[@dzikrul3470]

cool 👍🏻

[@jerinpjoseph8625]

Un professional stuff... Children's play with expensive Toys.. ha ha

[@mercado142]

Why?

[@TehMr]

Lmfao this video has so much wrong for professionals

[@joseallanaraya279]

wahahahahahahaha

[@aujax1]

cameras are already getting so good at tracking, autofocus and tap to focus. u wont need a puller anymore. the canon 1dx markii is very good at autofocus tracking as are the a6500 and gh5. u can just tap the screen and it follows the subject thru the shot

[@BradleyThomas]

There are some fantastic cameras at focusing, but at the end of the day they're computer systems that process very black and white. There will be times where they'll catch something you weren't aiming for because it just happens to be the dominant thing in the tap radius. Plus it's always nice working with an AC who can help wit kit maintenance and what-not.

[@aujax1]

for the sake of peoples jobs i hope ur right. but over the past 100 years theyve said a lot of human jobs couldnt be done by computers and machines. unfortunately many of those jobs are now done by machines and computers and are done better than a human could do them. but as filmmaking is an art, there will always be a need for the human touch

[@miguelcastro5754]

Fast autofocus is good and all but even the best af in the world can’t read your mind. Cant read if you want to pull in or pull out. Can’t read if you want to focus at the background while the dominant is in the front. It can’t be creative. It just assumes & assumptions are no good in filmmaking. Unless the next af can read your mind, that focus puller job is not going anywhere.

[@SteveT__001]

@@miguelcastro5754 Yet! ;)

[@kurtsimmons9735]

Cameras are getting better, but filmmakers also have to make artistic decisions, which cameras will never be able to do

[@pollplace1]

very fail

[@davinjacobs]

this shit is so silly