In 2006 the famous icelandic band Sigur Ros came back to their home island to make a tour and play a series of concerts at sometimes pretty remote places (not too hard to find in Iceland actually). The whole tour was filmed pretty intensively and the film Heima (what means home) was maybe the best music documentary produced for a long time. With Sigur Ros music, perfectly fitting in the wild landscapes of Iceland, it might be no big surprise, but what made the film also so special was the look of the film. Mostly filmed in a very calm style with giving the pictures time to breath and given the music the space to create a soundscape living in the pictures, the most notable technical special, what created the look was filming mostly with open aperture and with a minimum of depth of field. The look was only two years ago something pretty special and stunning. The technique to produce something like this barely affordable. The cray thing about it is, that in this two years technique changed so much, so fast. As said in the post about photojournalism, new DSLRs feature mostly also HD video, giving it the possibilty to create this unique look what made Heima so special with open aperture with a big chip what makes the depth of field so soft and blurred. To get a feel for the look of Heima, here is a small sample.
