A shot where focus is changed while shooting. Unlike a Follow Focus shot, a rack focus shot is usually done not from the necessity of keeping someone in focus but to shift attention from one thing to [..]

Shifting focus between subjects in the background and foreground so a viewer's attention moves from subject to subject as the focus shifts.

Shifting the area of sharp focus from one plane to another during a shot; the effect on the screen is called "rack focus." This is also called pulling focus if the focus moves from the background to the foreground.

A technique that uses shallow depth of field selectively changing the focal plane within a shot to draw the viewer’s attention to another detail in the frame, e.g. a character who has been out of focu [..]