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cinematography Fish Eye in Major Feature Film?
- Thread starter Joe Butch
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Wes Anderson uses an extreme wide lens on most of his shots that gives a lot of distortion in the picture. Not quite Fish-eye, but a lot of people consider it borderline.
As far as an actual fisheye with extreme distortion, nothing comes to right to mind.
As far as an actual fisheye with extreme distortion, nothing comes to right to mind.
Well there's always the POV shots where someone is looking through a peephole on a door. But somehow I don't think that's what you meant.
Check out old Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi movies. They used ultra wide-angle lenses all the time in their indie days. Still do, on occasion.
Dready mentioned peepholes already, but here's a great anecdote.
Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" film has the girl looking through the peephole... obvious fish-eye look.
In reality, a camera of that size cannot shoot through such a tiny peephole. A fake door was created at a crazy scale. The peephole was actually a porthole taken from a boat, about two feet wide. The camera was then easily able to get everything into frame (including the face & upper chest of the person on the far side), while being able to "see" through the peephole... and a fisheye lens was used to sell the illusion.
The scene looks really good.
Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" film has the girl looking through the peephole... obvious fish-eye look.
In reality, a camera of that size cannot shoot through such a tiny peephole. A fake door was created at a crazy scale. The peephole was actually a porthole taken from a boat, about two feet wide. The camera was then easily able to get everything into frame (including the face & upper chest of the person on the far side), while being able to "see" through the peephole... and a fisheye lens was used to sell the illusion.
The scene looks really good.
Check out Requiem for a Dream....Labatique uses a fisheye in the party scene..its a quick scene with a fisheye and fast motion in an apartment....the best example I can think of.