Focus Puller Roulette - Round 1 - "Focus Puller Tales"
We are starting out with the following topic:
"Focus Puller Tales"
Share your favorite story from set or from prep with the community. For this round we want to give a shout out to CRDBAG for providing an awesome kit worth of 300 € to one lucky winner of the focus roulette. We will draw one winner from the participants by mid of February!

Win a CRDBAG kit worth of 300€ with the following items included:
CRDPOUCH 4 Sizes Organizer Kit
Cheers & keep in focus!
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Back when I was first really getting into focus pulling, maybe 10 or 15 years ago now, I did a no budget feature with Carmen Elektra. She was only there for like 2 of our maybe 16 day shoot. But there are a few paparazzi in a chase boat as we were filming and I just happened to get into a shot that ended up in the tabloids. I don't know if it was forced perspective or some Photoshop but the way the photo was, it looked like I was right next to her staring down her shirt.
Now, in reality she's like 2 feet shorter than I am and we look the same height in the picture. It also lunch and we were on a boat, the Steadicam was behind her and I was checking to make sure everything was secure so I could eat but of course that wasn't in the headline haha. Got teased about it the rest of the shoot once the Steadicam guy found out about it.
Of course there are plenty of fun stories about being in the zone and nailing some shots or some other humorous one liners but that's a fun memory. I mostly work on commercials and occasionally day play on a show if it's in town (small market here) so the family got a kick out of something that had more notoriety, so to speak. Even though the film was definitely a b movie at best haha.