A focus puller or first assistant camera (1st AC) is a member of a film crew's camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera...
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focus puller (often called the 1st assistant camera, or 1st AC), but some camera operators prefer to pull their own focus (the act of changing focus is...
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Film gate (section Pulling the lens)
removal techniques. Because of the intractability of this problem the focus puller (or 1st Assistant Camera) will open the camera and examine the gate for...
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Simultaneously, (or within a very few seconds) the camera operator or focus puller will roll the camera, and as soon as the camera is confirmed as running...
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examples of ensemble casts in the superhero genre. Those three films all focus on teams of five or more protagonists, instead of the standard one or two...
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Film plane (redirect from Focus hook)
focus hooks where the focus puller can attach one side of a tape measure to quickly gauge the distance to objects that he intends to bring into focus...
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Focus is a 2015 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie. The plot...
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motion picture equipment company Panavision. He worked as clapper loader, focus puller, and camera operator in both feature films and commercials. During this...
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of various productions, before gaining work as a clapper loader and focus puller, and eventually a camera operator working under the likes of Ellen Kuras...
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known as a focus puller, is responsible for maintenance of the camera, such as clearing dirt from the film gate and adjusting the follow focus. A second...
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worked with top cinematographers throughout India during the 1980s as a focus puller. He was particularly inspired by Director of Photography V.S.R. Swamy...
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the doors and sides, new sculpted pull back headlights, and the big trapezoidal lower grille. In 2009, the new Focus RS was launched, with a modified version...
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practical use. It is almost impossible to stay in correct focus (as done manually by the focus puller) while zooming. This could be possible theoretically...
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movements. The camera is mounted to the dolly and the camera operator and focus puller or camera assistant usually ride on the dolly to push the dolly back...
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require all of these): generally assisting the rest of the camera crew (focus puller, camera operator, director of photography) utilizing the camera trainee...
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returned were often given a higher status (such as Crispian Sallis, Alien focus puller and Aliens set decorator). Cameron had enjoyed returning artist Ron Cobb's...
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camera The first assistant camera, 1st AC or focus puller, is responsible for keeping the camera in focus as it is shooting, as well as building the camera...
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flares and out-of-focus images, partially blaming the focus puller hired by Irwin. Lussier explained, "You can often tell your focus is supposed to be...
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Vanlint instead recommended his protege Adrian Biddle, whom had served as focus puller and camera operator on the original. Until his death in 2010, Vanlint...
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such innovations as turning out the house lights so that attention could focus more on the stage and less on the audience. His company toured across Britain...
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is occasionally attached to the movie camera at the discretion of the focus puller (also known as the 1st AC) solely for the purpose of blocking light flares...
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cuts). Deep focus A technique in which objects in the extreme foreground and objects in the extreme background are kept equally in focus. Dissolve An...
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which was 21 Hours at Munich. And then, I kept on going, I moved up to focus puller or first AC, and then operating and then DP-ing. And then I was DP-ing...
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and beginning every aspect of production. Whereas the executive producer focuses more on budgeting and predicting the views of the higher authorities in...
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MacPherson is fluent in English and French. MacPherson started work as a focus puller for the 1981 movie Gas. In 1983 MacPherson made his debut as a cinematographer...
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Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Nightbreed. For many years, he was a focus puller, working with the late cinematographer Douglas Slocombe and camera operator...
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work with Harry Stradling at Warner. Stradling promoted Finnerman from focus puller to camera operator, and in 1964 the two left Warner to become freelancers...
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a wireless remote operated by the camera assistant is used to control focus and iris. For low-angle shots, the Steadicam sled can be inverted vertically...
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animator needs to control fewer characteristics of the model, The animator can focus on the large-scale motion, Bones are independently movable. An animation...
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clapper loader on The Duellists (1977) before advancing to the position of focus puller on Alien (1979). Following Alien, Biddle returned to working as a cinematographer...
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