G+_Snuffy Sims Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I really don't get the hate for portrait mode videos. I saw this in episode 224, but I see it in a lot of other places. As Jason Howell says, people are recording on phones to be displayed on phones, so it makes sense. Portrait mode seems more close and intimate, hence its popularity with, for example, portraits. Likewise, video chat phone-to-phone always seems more intimate in portrait mode. Similarly if you're just speaking an idea for a proposal without any supporting photos or slides. Landscape mode seems more large and expansive, hence its popularity with, for example, landscapes. Which is why movie screens get wider and wider. But they have to compensate with severe close-ups in order to bring presence and intimacy, to the point that it's almost a videography trope. Portrait and landscape modes have always both co-existed in images. This has been the case as long as people have been making images, regardless of the position of their eyeballs. This carries over naturally to video, now that we have both options for the screen displaying the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Neil Sedlak Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 If you only plan to view the video on the device, portrait is fine. The problem is portrait video that is expected to be viewed on a TV or computer. A tiny strip of video in the middle of a sea of black bars is not my idea of "intimate". I'd also contend that most people who create vertical video have no idea of the concepts you mention, and therefore are in fact just doing it wrong. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joseph Cappellino Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Here's my beef (I'm a massive VVS hater). This is fine when the viewing medium can rotate, but when it can't it's a lot of wasted space. Pictures work because they can be displayed in either orientation when printed. Video can't be printed, obviously, but there are many fixed position screens that will be showing these videos (TV, computers, etc). When they are viewed there (like on the news), they have to create visual tricks (play an exploded and blurred version in the background) so they don't have huge black bars on the side of the screen. That being said, video chatting one on one, it doesn't really matter (unless one of the users is on a desktop/laptop), so using portrait is okay. The big problem is that people are filming "action" or "landscape" scenes in portrait. These tend to miss a whole lot of things out of scene and need continual panning to keep the subject in frame. So, until the average user can accurately determine which orientation is best, all video should be landscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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