Once you could get the same view for cheap from your couch, the film industry decided to change tack. To compete, film adopted ever-wider stances: Cinerama 2.
These allowed for sweeping vistas, grander action, and, in general, extra stuff to be shown within the frame. The ratio was abandoned for wider pastures, both literally and figuratively. Or, you know, some filmmakers are using again.
Sheer technical ability might explain the uptick in movies shot in Connor, associate professor of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California, told me. You no longer need to print your movie to different pieces of film stock in different aspect ratios.
This is supported by digital distribution, which makes it possible to screen different ratios using the same lens.
The fact that widescreen televisions can screen in all aspect ratios—old documentaries, episodes of The Twilight Zone , prestige TV shows—also means there is no longer any given standard. But people who watched movies on TV rejoiced. The theatrical experience had finally come home. And as TVs grew in size, aspect ratios began to reflect the change. This led to the idea of pan and scan , where widescreen films were reformatted to fit 4x3 television sets.
But widescreen TVs became all the rage in the early s, and those smaller televisions disappeared. Older sitcoms had to be reformatted to show in 4x3, and TVs had to be able to create a format box in the middle of their wider screens to capitulate to the changing times. As we mentioned above, the 1. For example, an aspect ratio of 1. Since that's one point where movies began, there was not much of a move to change them right away. The ratio 1. That's when CinemaScope and other aspect ratios were developed and expanded upon.
We've seen these aspect ratios make a comeback, with people like Wes Anderson , Paul Schrader, and others using it in their films.
The compressed frame can allow you to feel claustrophobic or even evoke different kinds of memories. It can also be used to feel old-timey and hearken back to forgotten eras.
He's not alone. But the most revolutionary recent use was Zack Snyder going in Justice League. But why? Aspect ratio is the relationship of the width of a video image compared to its height. The two most common aspect ratios are , also known as 1. Larger aspect ratio formats are used in the motion picture industry.
These are often referred to as square monitors. They are not capable of displaying HD high-definition video. The aspect ratio dates back to , when the Society of Motion Picture Engineers adopted it as the standard format for film.
For the most part, aspect ratio resolutions specifically refer to TV screens and monitors, as the more technical 1. In the beginning of cinema, 1. It was not a creative choice, but merely what was being offered with the technology at the time. Even though 1. In fact, some films had aspect ratios ranging from 1. While these other ratios were close enough to 1.
Nearly identical to 1. And for twenty or so years, nearly every Hollywood film was in 1. You can learn a bit more about the changing shape of movies and their ratios in the video below. And since nearly every movie ever made by the early s could fit into a ratio, TV was the hot new thing to watch any movie on. But movie theaters reacted to TV with the widescreen revolution, including CinemaScope and VistaVision , which resulted in 1.
And so from the mids to today, most movies are in an aspect ratio wider than You can learn a bit more about the widescreen revolution in the video below.
As for TVs, they stayed for pretty much the entirety of the 20th century. It was not until the s that the idea of wider television screens was being played with which included the idea of a aspect ratio. So these days the s , widescreen televisions at 1.
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