Sharp Focus? Help

[TheMagicPirate]

For a Uni essay, I've asked how as a lighting and camera person I would shoot a predefined shot. One of the things I have to shoot is

In the very near forground in extreme close up are some ants milling around on a piece of furniture over which the lens is looking. Thier bodies nearly quarter fill the frame. There in an old man in the background.

The ants and the old man must both appear in sharp focus.

I donrunderstand how I'm supposed to have something in the very foreground and something in the background both in focus?

Can anyone give ma any clues?

Cheers guys

 

[TheMagicPirate]

Bah, if I increase the depth of field/focus. That will work. Yes?

 

[TheMagicPirate]

Thanks for all the input guys.

I'm thinking I'm going to have the focal point just behind the ants, that way they will be more infocus. I figure the blur on the old man will be harder to see than on the ants.