real actual dragon (θΔ). follow for weird photography stuff and the occasional rawr
i've been thinking of shooting my upcoming videos in 2.4:1 (probably 3840x1600) sort of as a bit1 but now i've actually tried mocking something up2 and i love how much room it gives me for overlay graphics
1 there is some level of "camera does it so i wanna try it" but also ya know cinemascope is definitely a thing (someday i am going to get an actual anamorphic lens and it will be all over for u guys)
2 test coverage does not include set design, lighting, costuming, hair, or makeup
this is a fascinating idea which will bomb so badly on mobile and 90% of videos are viewed on phones and 100% of users are watching them at 480p or lower in a tiny ass thumbnail
people watch videos on their phones? i try very hard to avoid doing so because it sucks balls
yeah it's a huge bummer. i've had people mock me for uploading in 4k because they watch everything on a postage stamp (and at 2x speed)
i see i have found myself facing the age old "people should interact with my content how i want them to" vs "if i make it difficult for people to interact with my content how they want to they probably won't" dilemma
if you're youtubing (i assume this is what we're talking about) then the entire process is an unending sequence of gritting your teeth, breathing slowly and accepting that other people probably don't want to see it the way you imagined it
except when sometimes it is, and you can't know until you try
i mean technically at this point i'm not anything-ing because i haven't done it yet. youtube seems like the best (i.e. only practical) option for putting video content i make where anyone might end up seeing it, so that has generally been the plan
i don't love that plan however since a) i want to experiment with the medium itself in general and youtube seems a little antithetical to that (especially if people are mostly using their phones for it (which again i do not understand in the slightest)) and b) taking youtube seriously seems to lean a lot more towards "making television" (which is fine, to be clear) but what i really actually want to do is make cinema. that of course presents a content vs form problem in and of itself because most of what I can do by myself in my house is more towards the TV end of the topic spectrum
really I think I just haven't figured out where the right point in the "i'm shooting this like a TV documentary and putting it up online so that other people can see its interesting message in an easily accessible fashion" vs "i'm shooting this like a movie because i want to learn how to shoot movies and this is something I can fill twenty minutes of footage with" balance is for me yet
