Focus Pullers / 1st ACs

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We supply focus pullers and first assistant camera who keep key focus and manage the camera package for shoots in Turkey. Our team places first ACs who pull focus through tricky moves and dialogue scenes, build and keep the camera, manage lenses and extras, and support the operator and director of photography through the shooting day. Because Turkish shoots run at episodic pace and often shoot multi-camera, the focus pullers we engage are precise and fast under pressure, used to long days and tight turnarounds, and they work in Turkish lira within schedules shaped by the up-to-30% cash rebates.

Here is how the picture comes together. Turkey's camera-assistant pool is deep and well drilled because the 'dizi' industry — the country is the world's second-largest exporter of television series after the United States — has trained generations of camera crew through relentless episodic production. The discipline of pulling focus accurately, scene after scene, on long dialogue-driven shoots is exactly what dizi production demands, and Turkish first ACs also support the country's worldwide honoured cinema. This includes the precise camera work of Gökhan Tiryaki on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films. University film programmes feed new ACs into the field. The favourable Turkish lira keeps skilled camera crews strongly cost-competitive.