TCOM 331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Vise, Intimate Stories, D. W. Griffith
20 Sep 2017
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Horizontal orientation: standard film and computer screens are horizontally oriented, one reason for this could be that our peripheral vision is greater this way, a more compelling reason why is that we live on a horizontal plane. Regardless of the aspect ratio of the video screen, we can create secondary frames within the principal screen . Pillarboxing fitting a full 4x3 image in the middle of a 19x9 screen insert the image into the center of the wider screen so the top and bottom are the same. The empty sides are filled with vertical bars that look like pillars. Letterboxing: used to make wide-screen movies fit the standard hdtv screen, created by showing whole width and height of original movie and making top and bottom black or white bars. Its more difficult to fill the whole hdtv screen with a 4x3 image: the image can be stretched or squeezed to fit a wide-screen aspect ratio.
