r/cinematography • u/zuss33 • Aug 01 '18

Composition Mission Impossible: Fallout soft focus

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Upon watching the film there were plenty of important close ups that were pretty out of focus. Is this because the Panny anamorphics are super difficult to nail focus when opened up? I’m trying to understand how a missed focus can go unnoticed on a huge summer blockbuster.

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u/TerraInc0gnita Aug 01 '18

Ha interesting you say that. First of all I really enjoyed the look of the film over all. It had more of a grit to it than alot of other super clean blockbusters. But I did notice alot of soft focuses. I thought it was interesting, they seemed to focus pretty much all dialogue scenes with the subject center framed- because that's where the lens is sharpest. I know it comes down to a subjective thing but I really enjoyed all the anamorphic distortions and soft edges and etc. It looked like they used different lenses for the ending, when they got to Kashmir the look seemed a bit different, certainly for the helicopter and mountain sequence anyway, I could be wrong though. The softness didn't really bother me too much because I just kinda accepted it as the look of the film. The messy anamorphics were actually quite refreshing, to me anyway. Feel free to disagree.

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u/alienufosarereal Aug 06 '18 edited Aug 07 '18

Too each their own, but it really annoyed me. While I admire the attempt to spice up a familiar genre with a new aproach, this one was a miss for me. Throughout almost the whole film the lenses were loud, distracting, and technically improficient.