While I am totally with you on this, it would seem we lost the war. Videos are vertical now. Now when you say to turn your phone you’re just showing your age.
The worse part is that some people don;t even know how to do vertical videos and they put a horizontal image in the middle of a verticle video and add blurred out version of that video in the edges to make it look vertical, essentially using 1/9th of the available screen space.
Yes I’m old but vertical videos still drive me nuts. I’m in a five person dance troupe. After four years I still don’t have a good video of one of our routines, because everyone takes vertical videos. So all you see at any given time is two people and an arm. Or if they happen to be far enough back, 70% of the screen is floor and ceiling with tiny people.
I saw a guy on a plane straight up watching two full movies – back to back – vertically on his phone. Using like 30% of the screen real estate. Blew my mind.
So, I have a masters degree in media technology studies. If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have agreed with this completely. However, now? Not so much.
Historically, aspect ratios used to be vastly different from project to project. It really depended on the films content. From completely square to extremely widescreen, like in Lawrence of Arabia, the aspect ratio was modified to suit the content. Even 1993’s Jurassic Park is attributed to its successful cinematography because Stephen Spielberg used an aspect ratio (1:85:1) which was more common for comedy films at the time, because he realized it would better show the massive heights of the dinosaurs in theaters.
Cropping old shows when they are re-released in HD and 4k should also not be done just to fit a 16×9 TV. They should be displayed in their native 4:3 aspect ratio as intended. There are exceptions, like Malcolm in the Middle, which was actually shot in 16:9 and then cropped for older tvs.
Like it or not, but most people hold their phones vertically. Also, a lot of portrait content works best in portrait mode like a photo. Shooting a rocket launch in landscape mode doesn’t make sense.
Since we have the ability to orient our displays how we want now with the phones in our hands, we should shoot content in the aspect that works for the framing of the content.
The only thing we shouldnt do, is add black bars to vertical and horizontal videos and reupload them that way. Then, people can’t orient their phones to have the video fill the frame. Nothing more annoying than coming across a video thats been shared and cropped multiple times so its a tiny vertical video in a horizontal frame inside a vertical frame.
Only people who complain about vertical videos are redditors, it’s such a stupid take. There’s no such thing as the “correct” format of video. It changes constantly and throughout time with different technology.
There is one vertical screen: the smartphone. Vertical videos make sense to share on social media that will be consumed by people on their smartphones, which is not an insignificant amount of video being watched right now.
While I am totally with you on this, it would seem we lost the war. Videos are vertical now. Now when you say to turn your phone you’re just showing your age.
I miss Glove and Boots
We totally gave up on that fight…
The worse part is that some people don;t even know how to do vertical videos and they put a horizontal image in the middle of a verticle video and add blurred out version of that video in the edges to make it look vertical, essentially using 1/9th of the available screen space.
This video needed to come out 15 years ago
Yes I’m old but vertical videos still drive me nuts. I’m in a five person dance troupe. After four years I still don’t have a good video of one of our routines, because everyone takes vertical videos. So all you see at any given time is two people and an arm. Or if they happen to be far enough back, 70% of the screen is floor and ceiling with tiny people.
I’ll continue to yell at this cloud.
Tik toks and reels have doomed us all
I remember when they put this out.
We lost this battle. That’s that. The end. Can’t win ’em all.
I jokingly posted this on a video of someone I went to school with.
They reported my comment and said something like “HEY I DON’T LIKE THIS”
Great sense of humour.
I miss Glove and Boots man.
Also miss when the internet relentlessly mocked vertical video.
I can’t fucking believe vertical video won.
…well if most people are using their phones to digest content….shouldn’t the content match that?
I saw a guy on a plane straight up watching two full movies – back to back – vertically on his phone. Using like 30% of the screen real estate. Blew my mind.
Different format. Not really a big deal.
Youtube keeps offering me vertical videos in my feed. I never click on them. They call them “shorts” . Annoying in the extreme.
They were right AND NOBODY LISTENED ; ;
And now it’s too late. We’re all doomed, doomed I tell you. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TIKTOK.
What they need is a camera that takes wide video while being held vertically, or at least a setting to allow it to do so.
Unexpected Lost music
I feel like google should launch a site called “youtube classic” where they just have videos from before google acquired YouTube.
So, I have a masters degree in media technology studies. If you asked me 10 years ago, I would have agreed with this completely. However, now? Not so much.
Historically, aspect ratios used to be vastly different from project to project. It really depended on the films content. From completely square to extremely widescreen, like in Lawrence of Arabia, the aspect ratio was modified to suit the content. Even 1993’s Jurassic Park is attributed to its successful cinematography because Stephen Spielberg used an aspect ratio (1:85:1) which was more common for comedy films at the time, because he realized it would better show the massive heights of the dinosaurs in theaters.
Cropping old shows when they are re-released in HD and 4k should also not be done just to fit a 16×9 TV. They should be displayed in their native 4:3 aspect ratio as intended. There are exceptions, like Malcolm in the Middle, which was actually shot in 16:9 and then cropped for older tvs.
Like it or not, but most people hold their phones vertically. Also, a lot of portrait content works best in portrait mode like a photo. Shooting a rocket launch in landscape mode doesn’t make sense.
Since we have the ability to orient our displays how we want now with the phones in our hands, we should shoot content in the aspect that works for the framing of the content.
The only thing we shouldnt do, is add black bars to vertical and horizontal videos and reupload them that way. Then, people can’t orient their phones to have the video fill the frame. Nothing more annoying than coming across a video thats been shared and cropped multiple times so its a tiny vertical video in a horizontal frame inside a vertical frame.
Only people who complain about vertical videos are redditors, it’s such a stupid take. There’s no such thing as the “correct” format of video. It changes constantly and throughout time with different technology.
It’s because everyone uses snapchat to take videos which is just stupid. Snapchat makes them taller and skinnier too, and it dumbs down the quality
I think the real culprit here is TikTok , they are fanning the flames of the vertical video epidemic
phone software could fix this, recording in a horizontal aspect ratio even when the phone is held vertically.
… thanks TikTok…
When I was a college media editor, I would show this to the freshmen before sending them running around campus to shoot video.
I wonder whatever happened to glove and boots?
There is one vertical screen: the smartphone. Vertical videos make sense to share on social media that will be consumed by people on their smartphones, which is not an insignificant amount of video being watched right now.
I feel like the battle for horizontal video has been lost 🙁
I wish phones would just film horizontally while being held vertically. That seems like that should totally be a thing
I think the vertical trend will die and an entire generation is going to look back on their videos and ask why they didn’t film it horizontally.
I still send this video to friends who post vertical videos.