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6. Tilt Shift Photography Made Objects Appear Miniature - Game Night

Game Night is a rare studio comedy with a keen visual sensibility, as is perhaps best exemplified by the inspired use of establishing shots which depict the film's central neighbourhood as though resembling toy pieces on, say, a Game of Life or Monopoly board.

This wasn't achieved by creating an actual miniature of the town where the story takes place, but rather employing tilt shift photography.

This is a technique by which a camera lens' plane of focus can be shifted and, yes, tilted beyond what we typically expect to see produced on a camera sensor.

And so, it allows photographers to make large objects appear miniature by narrowing the depth of field as you would expect to see on a picture of an actual small object.

This can be done both in-camera or in post-production digitally, but in the case of this movie the filmmakers did it for "real," using a tilt shift lens to capture the startling images.