The Importance of Depth of Field in Documentary Style

Edmund McMillan: The documentary style, which is very much in vogue at this time, you know, the kind of like, uh, shallow depth of field, wandering camera, isolated object inner cut with way too close up footage. If you were a documentarian who was working in 2020, the early 2010s, let me know about why this was such a popular visual style for documentaries. And over the past couple of years, I think in 2021, on the blood zone, Liz Ryerson's, uh, podcast, um, she did a double episode on this whole genre of documentary. It's in the description below. You probably want to check out that as well