- default phone capture mode
- default phone display mode, both due to the way you hold it
- humans are vertical: vertical video frames the whole body, useful for dance videos. Portrait mode more useful for quadrupeds
Never quite understood why some people get so upset at vertical videos.
It was cheaper to have wider halls than taller, more seats, maybe lesser construction costs so 11:8 ( standard academy) or 1.43:1(IMAX) or 2.2:1 (70mm) all became popular.
The wider screens also gave more immersive experiences and film makers took advantage of that in their movies with panoramic landscape shots and other techniques.
Most non professional films(post covid even a lot of professional ones) are watched today on a smart phone screen which is usually something like 9:16.
So, unless you are making a movie to be released in theatres I would say film makers should default to use 9:16 not other way around.
A good film maker should target the medium they are working with, there is nothing inherently special about either one.
There were great directors/actors who could do amazing work without sound or only b/w etc (sometimes failed to adapt to to the transition), all mediums have some limitations we have to work with what we have.
Funny way to write 16:9....
>>are watched today on a smart phone screen
This is where my age likely shows as I still can not use my mobile as a video consumption device. I need 27in or larger monitor, or even better a 40in or large TV screen. I primary consume YouTube and other non-professional video from my Roku not my phone...
Video Calling is something I can not get behind either so...
Think about what shape a human being is…
I still can not understand how we moved to a point where Vertical Video is acceptable in civil society