Apple Shares Vertical 'Shot on iPhone' Short Film by Damien Chazelle

[baryon]

What I love about vertical video is that it can be converted to horizontal by adding massive black bars on the side, then it can be watched on a vertical phone, with black bars still on the side, as a tiny vertical video that fills maybe 7% of the screen. It's truly a new form of art, and puts things into perspective. We're so tiny compared to the Universe, and our achievements of large, high-resolution screens are all in vain.

 

[tomsmods]

Time to fire up a Macintosh Portrait Display.

 

[Treq]

I think the reason we see so much vertical video is because it's harder to hold and control the device with one hand to capture video landscape. People are too lazy to take the finger out of their nose so they can use both hands.

It's no more difficult to hold it horizontally with one hand than it is to hold it vertically one handed. Hell, they even made the volume button a record button so you can just hit it to record or pause. Easier than using the screen.

 

[deevey]

Make it default to take properly orientated horizontal videos whilst holding the phone vertically and this trend will die soon enough

 

[Analog Kid]

It's no more difficult to hold it horizontally with one hand than it is to hold it vertically one handed. Hell, they even made the volume button a record button so you can just hit it to record or pause. Easier than using the screen.

It takes a lot more finger dexterity to hold the phone stable when you pinch it top and bottom rather than cradle the weight in your palm as you would in portrait. My hand would prefer to be in front of the screen, which gets in the way. The volume buttons are on the same side as the lens so I also need to keep track of all 5 fingers.

Not insurmountable, but definitely more challenging at least for me.

 

[sofila]

Nope. Not limited at all.

Want to make a vertical video? Hold your iPhone vertically. Easy. And apparently a bit mind-blowing for some.

Also mind-blowing: You'll enjoy the benefit of having a much larger and easier to see image on the display as you're making your video.

I knew that putting Apple and user option in the same sentence would have been mind blowing for someone

 

[deevey]

It takes a lot more finger dexterity to hold the phone stable when you pinch it top and bottom rather than cradle the weight in your palm as you would in portrait. My hand would prefer to be in front of the screen, which gets in the way. The volume buttons are on the same side as the lens so I also need to keep track of all 5 fingers.

Not insurmountable, but definitely more challenging at least for me.

God Forbid you ever need to use a compact camera

 

[Analog Kid]

God Forbid you ever need to use a compact camera

I have no idea how to put that in context of everything I've said... I feel like maybe you read the last comment of a long thread and reacted?

 

[ignatius345]

If it’s not a hassle, why do the vast majority of people take photos and movies vertically?

Because it's been normalized by Instagram and, now, this abomination.

 

[ignatius345]

Also mind-blowing: You'll enjoy the benefit of having a much larger and easier to see image on the display as you're making your video.

When viewed on a phone, a vertical video fills 100% of the screen. When viewed on a phone, horizontal video also fills (hold onto your hat) 100% of the screen. So how is that "larger"?

When viewed on a computer, vertical video fills maybe 30% of the screen? Horizontal video fills 100% of a computer screen. So, on either a computer, or a TV or a mobile device, horizontal video fills the whole screen (if a phone user can be troubled to turn their wrist a little bit) -- but vertical video is gimped on a computer or a TV or a projector screen or a video game console. If you want your video to not look like sh** on anything but a phone, you'll want to shoot horizontal.

 

[atmenterprises]

That was really good!

 

[shelbyone]

sad to see that people are still suffering from vertical video syndrome....as if you would drive a Ferrari with just 2 cylinders...what a waste of "screenestate"..other than that; nicely done

 

[shelbyone]

Every time I see a video shot this way I am compelled to post a link to this video.

this needs to be posted everywhere!

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

Open the youtube link.
Click downvote button.
Close tab.

 

[LloydChiro]

One could argue we consume the majority of our content these days vertically.

Not me. I see vertical video, I quickly move on. I watched a few seconds of this promo video, but I didn't finish it, no matter how amazing it is supposed to look.

 

[4487549]

Well at least they shot The Making of... in the right perspective.

 

[s66]

The orientation used is called "portrait". Whereas the horizontal you refer to is called "landscape".

True, for pictures it is!
But for movies: vertical is called WRONG, horizontal is called normal.

 

[amartinez1660]

If the guy is not an actual stunt double, then the irony is that there’s an actual stunt double that’s doing the flips for the ‘Stunt Double’ main character actor.