"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." If you need to be inspired again about the amazing power of cinema, just watch any of these. There have been some outstanding video essays ...

NFL RedZone viewers may have noticed something slightly different about this week’s telecast. Instead of the typical full-screen action fans are accustomed to seeing, RedZone introduced a small frame ...

Active Format Description solves a troublesome problem in the transition from conventional 4:3 display devices to widescreen 16:9 displays, and also addresses the variety of aspect ratios that have ...

In a notable update aimed at enhancing user experience, Instagram has officially introduced support for 3:4 aspect ratio photographs on its platform.(AFP) In a notable update aimed at enhancing user ...

The aspect ratio of a film is the ratio of its width to its height. In layman’s terms, it defines the size of the black bars you see on the screen when watching a film. It may seem like a technicality ...

One result of DTV is that we now frequently find ourselves dealing with multiple aspect ratios. A multiplicity of picture aspect ratios has always existed in film and cinema, but decades of television ...

Anyone that has had the privilege of seeing Tenet in 15/70mm IMAX will know that it’s a special experience–incredibly high-resolution images shown at tremendous scale in an overwhelming (in a good way ...

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...

Gaspar Noé’s new film opens with a split-screen sequence, incorporating an aspect-ratio switch. Such experimental format tweaking has a long history, so why is it all the rage again? Michael Bay once ...

It’s well into December, so we can finally talk about Christmas. Granted, many people – most notably those with commercial interests – have been talking about Christmas for quite some time already.