First Attempt at Beyham

Multilayered Michael Bay-style hero reaction shot.

Bay Reaction shot with a telephoto lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_view#Focal_length

I don't think Michael bay is using a telephoto lens in most of these shots.

 35mm equivalent

fl 85

diagonal angle 28.6

Vertical 16.1

Horizontal 23.9

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_view#cite_note-17

The background is very blurry. If the focal length is 85, the angle of view is approximately 16 X 24 degrees. 

The subject would have to be about 86 feet away (arc tan of 16 degrees) to get 3 feet vertical (it would wind up smaller with the crop factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_factor). 

With an f/1.4 the background would have to be more than 1000 feet away... 

http://www.photopills.com/calculators/dof

a few Bay shots

https://youtu.be/2THVvshvq0Q?t=1m41s

the reaction shot

I have been out of comission for a few days, and I am on pain medication, so forgive me if my focus drifts.

I have decided to emulate one of Michael Bay's "Bayhem" (I am going to make an orbiting/rising dolly zoom) shots for the reaction shot because they are iconic cinematic shots that give an over the top sense or epicness,
Beyham - "use of movement composition and fast editing to create a sense of epic scale"

these require "layers of depth, parallax, movement, character, and environment"
"lots of things of varying size in the same shot and move the camera to emphasize."

Every Frame a Painting season 1 episode 7 Michael Bay - What Is Bayhem? by Tony Zhou

imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6167228/?ref_=ttep_ep7

direct link to the video 

The layers require a lot of objects and a detailed model, which is a lot of work, but I plan on trying the textured models in a reshoot of the "Text World" shot with a more appropriate font.