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Feb 13, 2020 · Even Quibi, the soon-to-launch streaming service that will offer some vertically-oriented original content, is keeping videos short (like 10 minutes) and giving viewers the option to transition...
- Why Were Movies Horizontal in The First place?
- And Then Came Smartphones…
- Vertical "Content"
- The Apple “Stunt”
- The Billion-Dollar Bet
- The Multi-Million Dollar WW2 Vertical Blockbuster
Throughout history humans have, of course, produced images in a wide variety of frames. Image aspect ratios, defined as the ratio of its width to its height, could span anything from tall, narrow portrait paintings, to wide, panoramic landscapes. When Thomas Edison’s lab was developing moving picture systems in the late 19th century it was primaril...
By design, smartphones need to be taller than they are wide. They must fit comfortably into our hand. However, the sheer variety of brands, makes and models, mean there is little uniformity in the world of smartphone displays. On average most smartphone displays sit in the same aspect ratio territory as modern HDTVs. Although, of course, holding a ...
One of the more interesting recent vertical video experiments came from an Australian team of creatives in 2019. Called Content, the seven-part TV series follows the amusing story of an obsessive millennial constantly searching for fame. The general conceit of the series is it takes place entirely from the perspective of the main character’s phone ...
In early August 2020 Apple released a short film from award-winning filmmaker Damien Chapelle (Whiplash, La La Land, First Man). Titled The Stunt Double, the entire project is ostensibly a big ad designed to show off the strength of the iPhone 11 camera. Nevertheless, the short film is also one of the more successful commercial vertical video exper...
From shepherding Walt Disney Studios through a transformative period in the 1980s and 90s, to co-founding DreamWorks Pictures with Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg is not in the business of missing important trends in entertainment. He saw the trend for smartphone viewing dramatically grow over the past decade and jumped on it. In 2018 he found...
In early 2020 Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov began filming an ambitious World War 2 blockbuster called V2. Escape From Hell. The film is being shot using a vertical aspect ratio, and the US$10-million budget is partially funded through a partnership with MTS, Russia’s biggest mobile phone carrier. Bekmambetov is no stranger to unconventional p...
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Aug 26, 2020 · Here’s what the Jazz Singer, TikTok, Steven Soderbergh, Gemini Man, and Hitchcock tell us about the future of vertical movies shot for your phone.
1 day ago · Whether you’re a veteran or new to Jigsaw’s modus operandi of punishing the wicked with grisly traps and ironic games, here’s how to watch the Saw movies in order, by release order or...
Feb 15, 2020 · Vertical Movies, Here We Come: First Up Is Timur Bekmambetov’s $10 Million War Drama. The digital-filmmaking pioneer thinks audiences are ready for the world's first vertically shot blockbuster...
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Sep 5, 2018 · Vertical video is undeniably a growing movement. There are now global vertical film festivals, such as The Vertical Film Festival, and even Cannes Lions has hosted vertical film-focused events for the last three years running. Vertical videos have come a long way from their first incarnations.
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The Platform ( Spanish: El hoyo, transl. The Hole) is a 2019 Spanish social science fiction horror film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. [2] The film is set in a large, tower-style "Vertical Self-Management Center."
