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 “You can have an extremely shallow depth or a slightly shallow depth of field. You can create a frame where a person’s face is in focus and everything else is out of focus, or you can create a frame where just a person’s eyes are in focus and everything else, including the rest of their face, is out of focus.” 

I find the depth of field in visual storytelling to be very interesting. Whatever you choose to be in focus or out can affect they way your audience perceives the story you’re attempting to tell. 

“Depth of field is as important as your composition or picking a focal length. It’s how you set the level of intimacy in a story or how you direct where the audience should be putting their focus in the frame. It’s the emotion, the punctuation, and the eyes of the story in filmmaking.”

https://www.filmmakersacademy.com/depth-field-character-story/

This article from Film Makers Academy shows multiple examples of how your depth of field can affect your story.