I am telling you, people who film vertically are complete and utter idiots teddit.net/r/interestingasfuck…
I think their minds and field of vision are as narrow as their recordings. This war is going to be documented through a fence, and no one would understand the scale of it, or what is happening.
I swear you cannot see normal videos anymore. All videos are so crap, and these idiots keep on buying more expensive phones, 5 cameras, 8k recording...for what? I have much better videos from 2008.
This world is so idiotic from all perspectives. Idiocracy 3.0.
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Alexander
in reply to Tio • • •I used to think similarlly.
Now I think it just doesn't matter. A lot of people use their phones to both record and consume content. Phone screens are vertical by default.
It is just status quo.
Tio
in reply to Alexander • •Alexander
in reply to Tio • • •As I see it - it is just more convenient for people to take videos this way and sometimes it is more convenient to watch. If it really really sucked no one would do it :) E.g. here the operator is walking in mud, perhaps not feeling too comfortable or even safe so they probably hold their phone in one hand and don't look too closely at the screen.
Aesthetically horizontal aspect ratio is better of course and more universal in general but for quick documentary purposes this is fine too. When shooting something massive at close range it sometimes even offers advantage of better horizontal panning.
Anyway I just set a shortcut on my laptop to rotate the screen and I hope one day we will get square or round sensors allowing not to think about aspect ratio at all :)
Tio
in reply to Alexander • •Rokosun
in reply to Tio • •I think platforms like tiktok is what made vertical videos popular. Also the phone should automatically rotate when playing landscape videos, but most apps don't do this. I'm glad that #peertube implemented this feature in their last release.
As for which one is better, it depends on the thing being recorded. If you're shooting a horizontal object like a car or a scenery, then landscape is better. If you're shooting more vertical objects like maybe a standing person or a tall building, then vertical video is fine. Vertical videos generally look awful when you watch it on a TV or PC screen, you can rotate the mobile but you can't rotate your TV, lol. Also it makes me think, why doesn't people make vertical TVs ? Maybe its true that our eyes are better suited for landscape viewing.
Tio
in reply to Rokosun • •Look if all you want is to film a face or a person doing something, sure, we should not kill of all those who do that. Agree. But in most cases videos are encompassing a scenery, more than a vertical thing. As for vertical TVs oh my god....I feel like puking even thinking about it. haha
Vertical videos are a result of today's consumerism, phone-based, no shit given society. Sheep following mentality. It is a package of "coolness" and that's what makes me puky about it. 7 cameras, 8k videos, vertical nonsense, infinite scroll, tiktok, locked-in device, the cool generation of retardation. I sound like an old man, but I think I'm right in bashing these :D . Let me vent ok?! haha
Rokosun
in reply to Tio • •I had a similar reaction thinking about that, haha. And that's what made me think maybe you have a point, maybe landscape videos are in fact better.
But I still don't agree with your idea of mobile=consumerism. You don't use mobile that much because you work from home, if you travel around more you would see why its useful. I agree that that there is a lot of consumerism surrounding mobile phones, but it doesn't mean that everyone using a mobile phone uses it for simply consuming. If you don't use stuff like tiktok, then that itself would greatly reduce your amount of consumption. One could say the same about PCs that they're mostly made for gaming these days, but it doesn't account for all users.
Tio
in reply to Rokosun • •I'd say, looking at stats, that most people use phones to consume. I've looked at that for the last book I wrote. I am sure the situation is the same today, if not more so. Yes computers too, I agree, are mostly used to consume. But my point with phones is that they are a LOT more geared towards consumerism than laptops. On a phone you can't do as much as you can on a computer. They are too small for any sort of serious work. Plus the "app" environment where you are locked in. Even blocking ads on a phone is a challenge.
Sure, phones can be useful, but am talking about the fact that they are mostly used for idiotic reasons. And vertical filming is on that side of things. They film like that simply because they only care to consume content on such a narrow screen and don't even tilt their phones while recording - habbit. Sheep. 100 do it, all do it. God bless.