Phil Brown
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I am filming a piece tomorrow night that will be released as a tv documentary.
Will need to follow the interviewer through a backstage tv set, to various points where he will stop and interview guests.
Can anyone advise the best way to keep focus. My plan is to keep zoomed out to zero and set focus at MF99 for walking shots, and then to between MF35-50 for the interview closeups. I'm worried that I will overshoot the focus points under pressure resulting in a second or so of crappy focus during the closeups. Also need to pan occasionally between interviewer and interviewee.
All of the interviews I have shot so far were fixed subjects. Should I just use auto focus and take the heat off?
Would appreciate your expert opinions.
Phil
I am filming a piece tomorrow night that will be released as a tv documentary.
Will need to follow the interviewer through a backstage tv set, to various points where he will stop and interview guests.
Can anyone advise the best way to keep focus. My plan is to keep zoomed out to zero and set focus at MF99 for walking shots, and then to between MF35-50 for the interview closeups. I'm worried that I will overshoot the focus points under pressure resulting in a second or so of crappy focus during the closeups. Also need to pan occasionally between interviewer and interviewee.
All of the interviews I have shot so far were fixed subjects. Should I just use auto focus and take the heat off?
Would appreciate your expert opinions.
Phil