AI-powered focus assist for professional filmmakers
Moon Smart Focus is a smart range finder built to assist the focus puller - bringing benefits for the entire production.
MOON SMART FOCUS
News
Miko shows you how to set it up
DoP Pär M. Ekberg on how to boost creativity and workflow
Arvid Jernqvist on Focus Pulling for Lars von Trier on “The Kingdom Exodus”
Miko Lazic trying out Moon Smart Focus with ARRI Hi-5 focus controller
Unique Features
Hey focus puller, meet your new best friend and superhuman assistant:
Multi-person distance measure - in real time
AI-powered tracking of eyes, bodies or objects.
Visual feedback in the app. You are in control.
You can now tackle challenging situations with ease:
actor improv, moving cameras, not hitting marks, no prep time, dolly shots, handheld cam - just relax.
Being less nailed to your monitor and marks, you can work more proactively. One step ahead, planning for your next focus rack. Letting Moon sweat the small adjustments.
Value Creation
Film/video/tv production is getting more complex, more dynamic and more time pressured. The challenge of nailing focus is causing constraints for how fast a camera can move, how actors need to hit marks, and many scenes still require multiple retakes before getting focus right.
Improving the workflow for focus precision will save time for the entire crew.
Save time for taking marks. You can even skip rehearsals.
Actors can a miss a mark too. No stress. Improvise
Camera can move more freely… so you can tell the story
Sharp eyes
The Moon Smart Focus will assist you to get actors in focus. It uses AI to track actors, and measure the distance to their eyes - in real time.
The distance data shown on a display as labels and sent to your professional focus controller of choice.
Moon Smart Focus will even track bodies turned away from the camera.
Relax. Moon Smart Focus will assist you as actors improvise, or when the camera does not move according to plan.
Super human focus skills
With the advancement of higher resolution and lighter cameras, the task of focus pulling has become overwhelming, resulting in creative compromises or costly mistakes.
Moon Smart Focus has unexpected movements covered, letting you prepare for the next focus rack. Actors missing a mark is no longer a problem
Moon Smart Focus will give you the superhuman focus skills you need to improve your workflow on set.
So you can tell the story
With Moon Smart Focus, you will soon explore new unexpected ways to let focus tell the story.
Moon Smart Focus will enable you to work with a shallower depth of field, letting the focus tell the story.
And if you no longer need to take marks, you will free up time for acting. More time for cinematography and creative storytelling.
Words from our advisors
“Moon will revolutionize focus pulling. Im sure of it” - Andreas Wessberg
Andreas Wessberg, Director of Photography
"Focus should never fail really, yet still, there are plenty of retakes. Especially during quick focus pulls in dialogue, or during long movements. These difficult jobs can drive you nuts, and this system handles such jobs in a great way!"
Andreas is a Swedish cinematographer known for Vår tid är nu (2017-18), Videomannen (2018), De Drabbade (2003) and so much more. More references at IMDB
“Filmmaking is getting more and more complex and time pressured - this can free up time for acting”
Harald Hamrell, Director
“This is a great idea, and the footage look great too. You are off to a really good start and I look forward to follow the progress with Moon Smart Focus.”
Harald Hamrell is a Swedish director and actor, known for directing Vår Tid är nu (2017-18) Vinterviken (1996), En häxa i familjen (2000) and Beck (1997-2009) and so much more. References: IMDB
“This can save a lot of time and resources” - Pelle Mellqvist
Pelle Mellqvist, First AC
"Now, for specific productions with challenging focus, this is a great way to save time and resources!"
Pelle is a man of many trades. He is renowned collector of cinematic lenses rented all over the world, he is a Swedish producer and cameraman known from Morden i Sandhamn (2010) Innan Vi dör (2017) and a long list of productions. See more at IMDB
“This can become a new industry standard”-
Arvid Jernqvist
Arvid Jernqvist, First AC
"Tools that gives more time for aesthetic options are priceless for me and the cinematographers of the production"
Arvid is First AC known from En man som heter Ove (2015), Springfloden (2016-18), See more of his work IMDB
Arvid has used Moon Smart Focus on Lars von Triers season 3 of The Kingdom - Exodus, and a handful of other commericals and fetures.
This is very promising for the future. - Andreas Fred
Andreas Fred, First AC, Cinematographer
“The first time i filmed with the Moon Smart Focus prototype, it nailed focus on autopilot. For scenes like this, it would be hard to achieve 70% accuracy with manual focus pulling. This worked incredibly well, it is very promising for the future.”
Andreas pulled focus on the first short film made with Moon Smart Focus - Tromb. See his references at IMDB and www.andreasfred.se
The AI-powered distance meter for professional filmmakers
