which camera did you use? i used to have a phone that was prone to doing that whole narrow depth of field thing with the cheesy blurred background. or did someone with an SLR do it with narrow aperture or something? i'm not trying to be nosey, it just is a style that has been overdone in recent years. worse than just stills, a lot of movies have started using narrow depth of field and it weakens the sense of realism, and they do it to lower costs because a convincing back-story world behind the actors is more expensive. i saw a good youtube video a few months back discussing how this trend with narrow depth of field shots in movies reduces the sense of realism, of the things you can look at that aren't directly in the story.