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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 141 points 10 months ago (4 children)

My pro move is too change halfway in the same clip so at some point the orientation is just wrong no matter what you do. I also do diagonal shots.

I'm not allowed to film anymore.

[–] LostXOR@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Diagonal is the compromise solution.

[–] TommySalami@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Call it a dutch angle, and suddenly you're a cinematographer

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

I film upside down and call it the Australian angle.

Then I film this joke and call it the dead horse angle.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you do a dutch oven with a dutch angle are you Dutch ^2 ?

[–] get_off_the_phone@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

No. If you take a tilted photo of a fart under the bed covers that's only double Dutch.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

San Francisco angle

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

Most of Battlefield Earth is shot diagonally and no one has complained about that fine film

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Legitimately I do think being kind of, orientation agnostic, seems like a decent idea. I've seen it done well before in things like webtoons, where the sort of "line of action", as it were, can benefit from bouncing from one side of the screen to the other, and where a variety of composition techniques can make a shot look more interesting and be properly readable in either viewing orientation. I think a conflict kind of naturally comes about when you're just wanting to shoot everything to be completely in line with the floor so it's easily parsed by the viewer, which is understandable, but kind of limits how interesting and efficient you can make your shots.

Also, somebody needs to make some popsockets that actually work, so holding your phone horizontally for more than five minutes doesn't suck garbage doo doo.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I unironically wish that modern videos could change FPS, aspect ratio, and resolution on the fly. There's way too many cases where having a 16:9 section of a video followed by a cinematic section is useful, and black bars are an awful way of transitioning between the two. Same can be said for vertical and horizontal ratios in the same video.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

we might get there with AI and maybe some auto-editing recutting software at some point (or just with fancuts, if IP law ever gets better), where the aspect ratio can be redone for a specific cut of the film, but I don't think it's ever gonna get to the point where you'd be better off watching something on a 16:9 monitor if it was meant for 4:3, unless you're really dead set on redoing all the shot composition so everything isn't confined endlessly to the center of the screen.

realistically our best bet would've been to just film everything in the same aspect ratio, which I thought would be the case after we all collectively decided to fuck ourselves, and very slowly migrate from 4:3 and your other postage stamp aspect ratios, to 16:9, over the course of like 50 years and over the course of different mediums. but apparently we can't have that, and we just have to get increasingly longer and longer aspect ratios because phone manufacturers suck. it's been like a century and change since we started filming stuff and everyone still just treats it like pictures on a camera, where it's all up to uncompromising artistic integrity.

hate that shit.