On one hand, most of them are just selfies anyway, so portrait mode makes sense to frame the only subject and thing worth looking at. It also is easier to watch on a phone held with just one hand.
On the other, if you’re taking shots of the landscape put that fucking shit in landscape mode. Please.
Every time I see someone film vertically I send them this YT video /watch?v=xL23Xvv1Pis (was not sure if I’m allowed to post links here). I just think it’s a brilliant and underappreciated parody.
TBF I kind of got used to portrait videos but I still block YT shorts and alike as most videos in that format are garbage anyways.
Every time I see someone film vertically I send them this YT video /watch?v=xL23Xvv1Pis (was not sure if I’m allowed to post links here).
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I still think landscape video and portrait video are two completely different beasts, and one should not be converted into the other.
I still do. Depends on what you are filming, 9 out 10, landscape should be the go to.
Non-landscape videos give me mental discomfort.
It seems like the landscapeboys lost
If they start building vertical cinemas, that’s when we lose.
Please don’t give them any more ideas…
I mean, that idea isn’t mine, nor new: https://youtu.be/dechvhb0Meo?t=87
But people still don’t find diagonal eyes attractive, we will never mutate to having vertically-aligned eyes. Horizontal video supremacy is established by nature. Surgery goes a long way this days but, where would they put your nose?
Nose to the left, mouth to the right, of course.
I thought some more after writing the comment and maaaybe, pick an eye and just align the one they remove above it, like right in the forehead but to one side. It could fit. Worst case they just remove some frontal cortex so it doesn’t stick out too much, won’t be needing it anyway if all one’s gonna do is watch vertical videos!
Sometimes you’ll see a landscape video letterboxed into a portrait video, just to make sure it’s terrible no matter which way you view it (but extra bad watching on a landscape monitor). So I don’t see this as a badge of anything.
On a sidenote, I’ve noticed video cropping is pretty nice on a phone (widescreen+landscape) depending on the content (I got an OLED phone free because the screen is cracked). Like Wall-e is pretty good like that. Also the music video for Long-Legged Larry (some things are cut off but not enough that it detracts from understanding)
My unpopular opinion is that whatever you record should consider the format it’ll be viewed in as well as the orientation of the subject in the video. Is it going to be viewed on a phone, one handed, while someone is eating or pooping? Then vertical might make sense. If the subject fits better in a vertical video, then that makes sense as well.
Fuck it. Let’s just record in squares and they can be cropped either way. The circular lense doesn’t just record in portrait or landscape, right?.. Wait… Or does it?.. It’s actually a circular lense but the sensor itself might be rectangular… Hmm…
Why would you do that? People don’t even watch shows in portrait even when they use their phones. They watch short form content designed to fill idle moments. It is nearly exclusively bullshit filler or one person content. Real content will continue to be viewed in landscape forever.
Shooting I’m square crop has been a thing for a while now, it means clients can re-crop the same footage for different outputs. And usually means framing is a nightmare and never really works out well for any of the output formats.
Just forget about rectangles altogether, circular video is where it’s at!
Circular phones.
If the content isn’t one person yaking full frame its going to be pointless to use portrait. It’s just practically unsuitable
Should be illegal really, jail time.
Somehow I actually read, “arrested” instead of “insulted” first time!
Right to jail.
Believe it or not… jail.
I am still waiting on 21/9 TV to buy…
I believe LG has a couple and I saw Philips quite a few years ago.
Insulted? Vines videos were mostly portrait. 2013-2014 were most-likely its hay day. Vines is dead now, but cell phone videos in portrait were posted to Vines a lot.
Now if you mean music videos or cinema, yeah, portrait would be odd.
Vine was started in early 2013 and in mid to late 2012, this video was popular: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo
That’s about six months of true vertical video hate before the war was lost.
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Heyday is what you mean, I think.
That’s not recent…
Black bars get added to both formats often, sometimes back and forth until the video is a tiny rectangle and 90% useless black space
And people still talk shit about when someone used the wrong one to record.
I’m relegated to just talking shit on people who clearly have a copy of the original video, but upload it to the internet by playing it on their screen and shakily pointing their phone’s camera at it rather than just uploading the fucking file.
I blame UPS’s poor file management.
It’d have to be magical to be utilized by the average iOS user.
i still judge people who film in portrait tbh. I can’t stand vertical videos, it’s the main reason i never made a tiktok.
Their children’s eyes will grow closer and closer together from one generation to another until no one has depth perception past the front of their face. /s
Is this why people find Anya Taylor-Joy attractive?
No, that’s because she IS attractive and you are being weird, shitty and judgmental. Like you’re allowed to have whatever beauty preferences you want, but idk why you are going out of your way to call her unattractive.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Her eyes are too far apart and her head is oddly proportioned to her chin. She isn’t UGLY or anything but she isn’t that attractive.
And often it’s not even a tiktok thing, it’s just laziness and/or forgetting to rotate.
I still don’t like vertical videos. My natural field of view is landscape and portrait feels crowded and stressful. Also vertical videos have to be watched 2-3 times to see everything, because the person filming has to pan the camera so much, and they usually move too quickly. It’s like everyone forgot that a phone can be rotated.
Fuck tiktok/shorts
