As someone who works in commercial advertising, I spend so much of my time converting horizontal footage and graphics for use on social media (vertical formats), but I do it all manually by cropping the footage and redesigning or modifying the horizontal graphics. I was thinking at first that this video would be interesting to show to my boss, but now I hope he (or the clients) never learn about these ai 9x16 conversions, because they’d want to take everything I painstakingly redesign with proportional graphics and selective cropping, and throw it out in favor of slapping a generative background behind horizontal footage
Having worked so much doing the same… I hope the companies using ai for that see they’re turning their own work into shite. And I mean, if 💩 is what you want then go for it
What strikes me about the AI-expanded shots is that they diminish the proportions of the actors relative to their surroundings. Gives it a more lonely, isolated, sombre feeling. I won't argue that the architecture is underappreciated, but I think there is something interesting in the scale changes re-contextualizing things.
Yes, I watched a Notting Hill one and the windows and buildings were often so disproportionately huge. Made the Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts look like ants.
I'd actually love to see what a great director/cinematographer combo would do if they crafted an entire movie (or, more realistically, short film) specifically for vertical screens.
It's the same sort of effect you'd get from shooting on a wider-angle lens. If you're shooting with a 35mm lens, that puts you at a 54.4° fov. If you then want to expand that footage vertically to fit a 9:16 aspect ratio, you're effectively zooming out a lot. The zoomed out field of view would now be about: 54.4 × (16/9) = 96.7 96.7°! That's approaching fisheye lens territory, which makes sense why it would change the feel of the scene a lot. You've basically adapted the scene to look as if it was shot on a 15mm lens instead of a 35mm one. Though there is of course the fact that AI doesn't need to follow the laws of physics, it just needs to look kinda like it does. So it can get away with avoiding other effects of using a wide-angle lens like foreshortening and barrel distortion.
I particularly enjoyed how some of the Star Wars imagery was converted into vertical format. It felt like a lot of the shots visually connected the subjects with the earth and the sky or outer space, giving the scenes a new and fitting context. I would love to see a large-budget film in the hands of a talented director shot in this format, exploring how they might use it. Film seems like the only medium where we stick to such rigid formats and are so afraid to break conventions. I don’t understand why creatives aren’t more willing to push the boundaries of their mediums.
my sister is an actress and has been in several "verticals" which are like a la carte soap operas marketed to chinese consumers, meant to be watched on phones!
Plaster is, indeed, a really rewarding medium. Lately, I've been working (on and off) on a painted plaster canvas technique for abstract landscapes. It's lots of fun to work in texture, color, and incorporate physical objects. It's very versatile.
@@justforplaylists The main idea is that plaster dries quickly and holds its shape, but paint dries slowly and shrinks a great deal. I make a wide box about an inch deep, and add wet plaster nearly to the top. In this way, there is no actual canvas; the plaster is the "canvas". Then I pour paint from squeezey ketchup bottles at various heights to drive in volumes of paint. The plaster hardens around the channels and pools, creating paint-filled cavities. Then the channels and pools dry up and leave only a coating on the inner surface of the cavities. There are many more things that can be done to the plaster after adding paint, but that's where this idea starts each time.
@@Cia_8 I haven't shared any of the plaster/paint stuff since it's really still in the technique-testing stage, but there are plenty of interactive lamps, musical/food robots, and cute dog videos on my youtube channel. Most of my videos have been shorts for a while now.
This feels painfully related to those house flippers on tiktok that just go in and make everything "modern" (read paint everything white/cream/beige/brown/black) Just a complete lack of curiosity about these creations, all for the quick return of "more of the same".
I hate it I hate it so much especially because those movies have such great cinematography. There's a reason why the director chose that specific shot, why you're seeing everything you're seeing on the screen. I can't even formulate a coherent thought, these vertical videos enrage me so much.
@@plateoshrimp9685not necessarily? it depends on why it would be shot vertically. it’s quite difficult to shoot vertically because the history and conventions of cinema are based in horizontal shooting. it’s hard to translate those concepts into vertical. however, if the director really decided that they wanted to shoot the whole thing vertically, and put in the work to hand craft the entire shot in a vertical format… then yeah it would probably look pretty good too. i think most people agree that horizontal isn’t better than vertical (even though we’re more used to horizontal) it really just comes down the artistic intent of the director & cinematographer.
@@unconcernedsalad2 Horizontal isn't _inherently_ better than vertical in all instances (paintings and stills photography has always employed both, after all), but there's a reason that films went wide rather than tall: human lives predominantly take place on a horizontal plane. We move left and right, forwards and backwards far more than we do up and down. Since most films concern human activities and interaction, it makes sense to prioritise width over height. Theatre stages are predominantly horizontal; while many productions do incorporate vertical elements, you'd be hard-pressed to find one taller than it is wide. Different works have different needs, of course, and filmmakers have always played around with aspect ratio, and a feature-length film certainly could be very artfully realized in portrait format, but I dont think it would ever make sense as the predominant format for cinema. (I don't think I'm really disagreeing with you, other than to say that the history and conventions of cinema don't _arbitrarily_ prioritize horizontal aspect ratios.)
@@plateoshrimp9685 no, because if you want for example a shot with one person near the camera and another further away in the background and some sweet shallow depth of field, and then move the camera away, then the two subjects would be more close to each other with respect to their distance from the camera. Also cropping often plays a role in the narrative. For example The Lighthouse was shot with aspect ratio of 1.19 to 1, which is nearly square, to create a sense of claustrophobia. It wouldn't work as well if you extended some of the dimensions or moved the camera further away.
@@unconcernedsalad2there are very good reasons why film is shot horizontally beyond simply convention. Mostly one reason: human vision has a horizontal aspect ratio somewhere between 4:3 and 16:9 depending on how you measure. Generally speaking, it's close to 5:3. This is not me being essentialist or saying it has to be done that way. Artistic vision supercedes everything. 1:1 film is very interesting, and one of my favourite vertically shot films is called [UNUM]. But our horizons are horizontal, our interiors are horizontal, our vision is horizontal, the layout of theatre and living room seating arrangements is horizontal. You can fit more on screen, you can have people talking to one another in the same frame, etc. There are numerous very good reasons why film overwhelmingly has a horizontal aspect ratio beyond *just* convention.
I work in architectural history and it just makes me so sad that there is this world of history and beauty out there and yet people would rather just watch 'fake' videos. And yes. Yay plaster!! Thank you for making it interesting❤
Bring back fanworks that take work and build community!! I love when anime fans share photos of their "pilgrimage" to real locations in their series and that inspires more people go visit...sometimes random locations lol. But I get to see it IRL out of animation and I love that too.
I always appreciate the research you put into each video and the time you take to explain the very important details. ❤ I love walking any street with architecture that obviously took time, passion and incredible skill to create years ago. It is artwork that people live in and appreciate to this day. AI can never duplicate that.
I think that the "uncropping" of the video, while fake, serves to remove a lot of the intentionality behind the original framing and blocking, the lens choice, and the apparent distance to the subjects, who now occupy far less of the frame. The resulting image feels more natural to some because it now cinematographically closely resembles the sort of objective experience we all have when we notice a scene unfolding across a busy street- we can't zoom in or pan / tilt, we just ignore the useless areas of our broad field of vision. I don't think this has anything to do with it being vertical, and I imagine the same effect would be apparent if you "uncropped" a 16:9 video into a bigger 16:9 field or stitched frames together from a moving camera to form a locked-off shot. (Which people have done for the Patterson-Gimlin film and the Zapruder film.)
do we though? I only feel this when I'm inside a regular room (because I see the ratio of the walls), but in general it's more like a big circle with the center being sharp and the edges blurry
It's because of how a lot of videos are filmed today, shot vertically on super wide phone cameras. I can see how a lot of people, especially Gen Z, will have subconsciously linked these two factors with the idea of what looks "natural"
The really scary thing about AI is the people who’s perceptions of life, art, and relationships are skewed because of its depictions How can you look at those uncanny images and say it feels like you’re there… people are too easy to fool True beauty in art is from the mastery of craft
yes it's just like how those perverted romance novels have spoiled and deceived the youth of our prior generation... they are getting the wrong idea about what is real!
This hurts me in a whole new way I didn't know that I COULD be hurt. Both in the topic, and the jokes. So, thanks for the distraction. And for highlighting just how boring our ceilings are today. And for giving me a new book to add to my list, a new trade to try my hand at, and potentially a new disaster to create at my house (a turn of the century Carpenter Gothic that got flipped into a house, poor thing).
i think i understand how you feel. the "It's like witnessing it first person" comment hurts my soul. Our eyes DO NOT SEE THE WORLD IN VERTICAL FORMAT. Your eyes are set in your head horizontally, your periferal vision is wider than it is tall, your eyes track movement more precisely horizontally than vertically, our ability to percieve depth your eye muscles move more easily from side to side than up & down, your neck moves side to side more easily than up & down... and all of this continues to be true even for people who grew up reading/writing languages with a horizontal script. The idea that vertical videos are "first person view" feels like such a terminally online take, but I suppose that for many Alphas and younger Zoomers, their entire life *is* terminally online... and i don't know how i feel about this.
Maybe it's because of the differences in media we view, but the trend it reminded me of was the old 'artist takes a ccg card and expands the art from the tiny frame on the card to the full card, replicating the style of the original' (often Pokemon - I don't know why I've seen this done with Pokemon cards more than any other CCG). And I love that trend. Getting to see human interpretations of fictional locations and scenes expanded from their original imagining. It's humans making artwork expanding on the artwork of humans, creating a unique piece of cardboard as a result of it. Which, what I like about that feels kind of like the opposite of this AI vertical video trend.
Exactly this. I would actually find these videos really interesting if they were creating the actual space with real images and cg painting. Even a fully artistic rendering could be good.
But maybe those videos inspire people to get creative and create a similar art work or be inspired by the elongated version and create your own version? What do you think about that?
I love seeing how adobe generative fill draws never-before-seen backgrounds too. It’s fascinating to think about how the algorithm paints with limited information. Furthermore, the outputs can be beautiful.
opening this video i thought it would be about people cutting movies up into youtube shorts with weird stabilization. i had NO idea such a thing even existed. just... why? they even could've used some shots from the movie with the camera going up and down. not that ai bros would actually lift a finger to think of that
Same here, I had no idea people were doing it this way. I assumed this was gonna be about like, a trend in a few new movies where they frame things /specifically for ease/ of promotion in vertical video, centering the focus narrowly in the centre only
The ones who say the vertical edits feel like being in the shot first person are really making me shake my head. They've outed themselves as viewing their first person lives through a vertical screen to the point that they've forgotten their eyes have actual peripheral vision. All anyone has to do look at the room or landscape around them. This is why films have horizontal framing - because that's how our eyes see the world around us. And as for AI... just no.
Most cinematic movies do not use horizontal framing. They use virtual reality. A VR headset is the best display if you want to get as close to reality as possible 🌈
@@robertschnobert9090 The quality of being cinematic is not synonynous with realism. Having more - or more accurate - information isn't inherently more artful; rather, giving the audience the ability to turn their head robs the filmmaker of one of the fundamental tools of the filmmaker, photographer, or painter: the frame. Containing the image in a rectangle is crucial to cinema. I don't say this to denigrate VR; it can be art on its own terms, just as sculpture doesn't invalidate painting (or vice-versa).
@ObscenelyMarvelous I don't think the feeling of actually being there can entirely be chalked up to "we've trained ourselves to view the world through phone cameras". I think it's more the uncanny effect of removing part of the cinematic language. We know that films aren't framed like this, so it seems voyeuristic, like someone recording a behind-the-scenes video or something. You see the floor coming almost all the way to the imaginary camera operator's feet. I think it's a similar effect to high framerate films feeling uncanny and like you're watching actors rather than characters.
They're just responding to it being a wider shot. They're actually noticing that it's simulating peripheral vision, albeit not as well as it would be horizontally.
thank you for bringing attention to this recent trend that is so anti-art... and doing so in such an elaborate way!! i hope at least some people who have previously enjoyed this type of tiktok can get a new perspective from what you said! and actually, i also feel like i got a different perspective on what makes them popular (still hate it though)
I enjoy those videos and I still enjoy them. I liked this video though I didn’t love its perspective on AI. In fact, it doesn’t seem to offer much of a perspective at all. It came across as a vague rant about the author’s discomfort with AI, without offering many concrete problems. Even if a cinematographer had never intended to shoot a film vertically, it would be very interesting if we could reshoot these movies for every format, phone included, for free. We can’t. The next best thing an interested fan can make is an informed guess as to what a vertical version of the film would look like. That’s what generative AI provides. The output is generally pretty good, and it gives me a new perspective on the movie. I like it.
I’ve seen a few of these edits and really enjoyed them. I knew immediately that they were using AI to extend the scene because I’m a photographer and I use those AI tools in my work occasionally. The crux of a lot of the issues with AI is when people can’t tell what’s real and fake when it changes the integrity of the source material. Yet again, we really need the social media platforms to catch up with the AI technology and label things appropriately.
Did not expect a video about TikTok to remind me of my grandfather. He was a sculptor who worked in Hollywood and for one of the companies he had to join the plasterers union. My family used to laugh about how silly that seemed but it makes a lot more sense now.
YES! i’ve been waiting for somebody to talk about this, i feel cuckoo!! film and television are mediums with their own visual languages that convey meaning and story in all of the frames, in what is shown AND what is not shown. this just means we’re reconstituting them into sh*tty, listeria-contaminated hamburger: easy to eat, no nutrients.
6:16 I couldn't agree more with everything you said, but this in particular really struck me: "The shot-vertically TikTok couldn't even comprehend the type of intricacy and money that we're talking about here." THIS. And also why AI more generally fails on so many levels. Bravo!!
Kendra, I have to say the way you present each of your videos blows my mind away each time with how well researched and articulated each of your points are, especially when delving into historical contexts. Bravo! 👏🏼
It failed us from the beginning because corporate greed has taken too hard and fast of a hold on anything new. It could be used for disabled people to help them communicate, could be used to help assist people learning math, or help reorganize sources and cite them in MLA to cut down on tiny little inconveniences…but instead, we use it to replace artists, what we thought was the final frontier of human emotion untouched by corporations, but nope. Yeah let’s force these starving artists to starve even more by “paying” these random algorithms to “generate” “new” things for us! Totally isn’t plagarism!
You're smart and nice and cool too! And you speak about subjects that I'm very interested in. Thanks, and congratulations on your plaque; it's well deserved!
congrats on 100k subscribers! i adore your content. it would be cool to see you talk about seattle's architecture, i grew up in seattle and it's still my favorite city.
I thought this was going to be about content being filmed vertically, and I’m disappointed but not surprised by the actual issue. It definitely sucks to be losing the beautiful architectural details of the real rooms, but there’s been shitty AI ‘historical architecture’ going around for a while. It sucks even more how much people don’t care, and seem to think that detail-less vertical footage where you can barely see the characters and the landscape makes no sense are ‘more cinematic’ than the original shots. Last year I got to see a beautiful film I’ve loved for years in a theater for the first time, on 35mm film and I felt like I was watching it for the first time. It was unbelievable to see the details up close that I hadn’t caught when they were on my family TV or my laptop screen. There’s tons of other movies I want to see blown up in theater, and the thought of shrinking them down instead to a phone screen is just really sad.
Im reminded how much more plaster and plaster work was seen to be bothersome by the people who lived 50s-70s, most people complained about how hard it was to keep clean and how cobwebs and dust would appear rapidly. Also, I know Im old because I’m Horizontal and I can’t stand Vertical give👏me👏the👏left👏and👏right👏side👏of👏You
Very interesting to think of the frustration towards plaster at that time. It's right when drywall was becoming the building standard (which also requires less labor). In my last video I mentioned an Addams Family cartoon which definitely worked into the same idea of old houses with plaster being full of cobwebs and dust. Love seeing how it all connects!
@ thank you so much for replying to my comment, very cool! Yes I agree, tastes and values change over time but what’s the meat and potatoes is how those trends come back. We live in the age of the simulacra.
Heyo! This is the first I’ve watched your videos! Wow, im in love with your voice and the slower paced editing, just the minimum, and i feel refreshed, im ready to start my day :) thank you, i really enjoy your style and i will be hanging ‘round! ❤
The 2005 Pride & Prejudice was shot in a format called Super 35, where the 2.39:1 aspect ratio would be extracted & enlarged from a negative with a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio (depending on whether it was 4- or 3-perf), and sometimes that meant they could "open up" the frame on home video, rather than cropping it (because that was still a consideration in 2005). I haven't seen the "Full Screen" version of P & P to know to what extent it was opened up (some Super 35 movies still wound up panned & scanned, some directors/DPs preferred it because the lenses were lighter & didn't require as much light vs anamorphic (the other way to get a 2.39:1 aspect ratio on 35mm film) it was also easier to incorporate CGI into before lens modeling was a thing) I wonder if whoever runs that acct knows about that.
Problems regarding AI aside, I think it’s beautiful that as a species we continue to develop new ways to experience the travel and adventure that we inherently crave, when we can’t afford to do so ourselves. Traveling is expensive, and a privilege, so is being physically well enough to do the traveling. I say if it doesn’t hurt anything, let the people have their escapism.
I love the idea of Dear Photograph! It makes me want to print out some of my photos from my phone and go on a little nostalgia trip. Also Kendra the way your videos are structured is soo satisfying. I’m always asking “Where is this topic going?” And you don’t disappoint!
i joked with a friend once - that one day in the therter. after thay play the adds and trailers before of the movie the curtains will slide across horizontally making the screen vertical to play the movie. perhaps that day is not as far away as i thought.
Always always always love your videos. Your voice and perspective is incredibly unique and makes me remember why I studied interior design at Uni, even if I didn’t do anything with my degree. I think you’re the best
I always learn something new when I come to your channel, I was not expecting it to be about plaster but I am fully on board. Your presentation is wonderful, and the structure of the videos themselves always impress me. Lovely video!
As an ecologist, it hurts me to hear that the outside shots look fine. I get that the inside shots are easier to notice for an interior designer, but that Oak tree looks very ill.
I just liked looking at the ceilings and rugs. Thanks for showing the real history of the placemarkers in said films. The art was real to me, thru my screen and you were the curator . Good work good bye subscribed
YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!! You rock! I totally didn't tear up hearing you reached 100k subscribers...... Also it seems to me that people are trying to get a different perspective on reality becuase it is so stressful, but they shouldn't be looking for it online.
What a brilliant contrast between the friction of memory and the real in the Dear Photograph site and the slippery simulated recognition of the TikTok extensions. Again brilliant ❤
You really had me in the first half ngl 😭😭 I feel like there's so much that AI is abused for, I have become actively incapable (especially in the current climate of everything) to take umbrage about this particular issue. I know some people like to be up in arms about the fact that directors chose shots for a certain reason, but a. That's kinda not true (which is why you later have directors' cut releases in the first place) and B. It's sort of like saying that if a play was performed once with a certain interpretation then that's it. Nobody can have it any other way. I feel like this particular use of AI is more like the early days of Wikipedia where it is a great jumping off point but you can't trust it further than you can throw it (and boy do I have spindly arms) Don't get me wrong I hate the route our timeline has taken with AI and do not use it myself but wouldn't it be great if like, Joe Wright saw these and released a 16x16 version or something? A VR experience? I just feel like, if we become monolithically averse to AI, due to the way it is being used against the general populace instead of for, and never exercise it to make good, creative things (with a lot of ethical considerations and caveats), in ten years time they're going to try and convince us that there was no other way for AI to be used, and I want to be able to say no, it could have been an excellent tool, with examples to back me up. I saw this happen with drones too; the technology got abused for war instead of being helpful. It keeps reminding me that the surgeon's scalpel and a soldier's sword both cut through flesh and bone, both at cross purposes. Anyway, I love plaster, I adore the effect it gives, I love watching videos of plaster art being done, and let me tell you, it looks seductively easy when someone else does it. It made me cry Excellent video as always 💗💗💗
This is why I have no interest in those little toys. They distort reality to an unreasonable degree. Can anyone really be so ignorant of filmmaking that they think these videos are "uncropped"? They're SEVERELY cropped. And do they really see the world in thin little vertical strips? Because that's the only explanation for thinking these things look "real". Bizarre. We're going to end up with everyone seeing the world in self-inflicted tunnel vision, everything outside of that little strip becoming invisible.
Congratulations! I really enjoy the thoughtful, humorous and carefully researched content on this channel and I'm glad you are getting the views and attention you richly deserve.
Better than cropping them left and right 😅 I am sure we might see „vertical“ movies soon. The reason why movies used to be „horizontal“ is because it mimics our eyeline. We see things horizontally. We see more on the sides than on the top or bottom of our „frame“. Really interesting video. I didn’t know this kind of AI extension is a thing.
So, essentially, it's for those who can't be bothered to take half a second to flip their phone 90 degrees, so they'd rather watch AI porrige ... Humanity is going to hell.
I think we as people lost something when we stopped naming rooms, making them themed. Like the peacock room, which is a famous story and highly worth reading about.
Obviously what made kendra angry was a rug looking wrong lol. Lovely video, It so cool you brough attention to those parts of architecture, history and change of perspective induced by new media
1:47 Correct. The comment, "this is so cinematic," is painful to my core. I have been making movies for 25 years. Our eyes are horizontal. Cinema screens are horizontal. Their comment is plain incorrect.
Definitions change over time you can never rely on language... a small Google search quickly shows that "cinematic" has no true meaning today and that it has been slowly becoming a word to describe a certain aesthetic, that is no longer limited by cinema technicalities (24fps, shot on film, aspect ratio, etc) but general audiovisual vibes. Many real life moments can feel cinematic too, for example : the Hindenburg disaster, the sunlight hitting buildings a certain way, or running through a field of wheat on a hot summer day, heck even a whole city can feel cinematic, for me it's New York, and everybody knows that New York ain't exactly the horizontal type. Cinematic has no meaning anymore and that's fine, their comment is not incorrect.
@@jojothepro15 A small Google search quickly shows that "better" has no true meaning. What is better for you might not be better for others, so there is really no one who can be correct.
@@DerrickJLive Stop acting in bad faith. You know my point was not about words having no intrinsic meaning but rather their usage changing their meaning over time.
This is why I practically live in TH-cam, to learn about these niche stuff. Now I want to go to England and have an 2005 P&P tour. As for the vertical aspect, I think whole movies won’t be made into that, because I am guesssing (and hoping) people won’t be holding their phones for 2 hours straight. If these vertical cinematic shots get people to be interested in these movies…that’s an advantage.
I’ve visited Burghley House (3:50) and Wilton House (6:23) and they both are absolutely gorgeous English stately homes! Pride and Prejudice was absolutely correct to film everything using real life historic buildings (Chatsworth House, Burghley House, Wilton House, Basildon Park, Groombridge Place, Haddon Hall, Stourhead Gardens, Weekley Village in Northamptonshire [home of Mr. Collins] or the historic stone town of Stamford in Lincolnshire [Meryton]). It just makes everything feel so much more authentic and beautiful.
Austen spent so much time describing the scene and the house as reflective of the atmosphere and the people, production designers or location scouts spend so much time helping chose what would be the perfect frame. Just like Kubrick shot the shining in a way that would not be cropped for the television aspect ratio of the day, and some people choose to frame in ways for IMAX and other formats so that the main information will be everywhere, this leads to the question about intention, how direction is drawn through framing, etc., and what future mediums will entail- perhaps things such as Apple, spatial video, etc. In some ways, this is nothing new in terms of how the west was one being shot on Cinerama, and everything specifically after the academy aspect ratio was no longer the standard, especially when Film had to compete with television and try to make things more of a wide screen spectacular. There’s a great video on the Academy aspect ratio and the differences it produced in terms of performance and framing. This is all coming from someone who enjoys amorphic imagery as well. When I film something I use a black magic cinema camera 6K and while 6K may seem overkill for someone who knows how to frame up a shot properly (my confidence on that may always waiver;), the ability to film with an open gate sensor, meaning more information on the top or bottom, or wherever you might need it if you crop, means that you can shoot things for horizontal or vertical distribution - sometimes social media, and something on TH-cam at 16 x 9 at the same time. I’m not sure how long it will take me to adjust to the idea of something vertical being cinematic, but I understand the personal feel of holding something in your hands and the immediacy and “real” feel of capturing things and then aspect ratio and then seeing things and then seeing things in that aspect ratio. And with a 17 K camera coming out from blackmagic, I wonder about all the possibilities and the fact that when they switched to widescreen, they had to choose an atmospheric approach and a different relation between characters. I could see the entire films being shot with the vertical in mind. And I can also see AI getting better, and anyone with thought and intention, directing both AI and live action to supervise and try to ensure integrity. Or using an AI just to blend something shot at the same time so that you truly are using the original artistry that went into the molding and other aspects of the artistry that created the spaces that were meant to wow and impress and give you a sense of those with status- and how their environments reflected their character, to the point where you could realize that a guy might not be so bad if he treated his workers well, and maintained his property in a welcoming, proper man(or;)…
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As someone who works in commercial advertising, I spend so much of my time converting horizontal footage and graphics for use on social media (vertical formats), but I do it all manually by cropping the footage and redesigning or modifying the horizontal graphics. I was thinking at first that this video would be interesting to show to my boss, but now I hope he (or the clients) never learn about these ai 9x16 conversions, because they’d want to take everything I painstakingly redesign with proportional graphics and selective cropping, and throw it out in favor of slapping a generative background behind horizontal footage
And then pay you half of what you make now to “””edit””” it.
Praying for your job to not get replaced by AI crap.
Having worked so much doing the same… I hope the companies using ai for that see they’re turning their own work into shite. And I mean, if 💩 is what you want then go for it
AI, as it's currently being used, is a disease 😐
Yeah don’t show them this video😅
What strikes me about the AI-expanded shots is that they diminish the proportions of the actors relative to their surroundings. Gives it a more lonely, isolated, sombre feeling.
I won't argue that the architecture is underappreciated, but I think there is something interesting in the scale changes re-contextualizing things.
Yes, I watched a Notting Hill one and the windows and buildings were often so disproportionately huge. Made the Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts look like ants.
I'd actually love to see what a great director/cinematographer combo would do if they crafted an entire movie (or, more realistically, short film) specifically for vertical screens.
It's the same sort of effect you'd get from shooting on a wider-angle lens. If you're shooting with a 35mm lens, that puts you at a 54.4° fov. If you then want to expand that footage vertically to fit a 9:16 aspect ratio, you're effectively zooming out a lot. The zoomed out field of view would now be about:
54.4 × (16/9) = 96.7
96.7°! That's approaching fisheye lens territory, which makes sense why it would change the feel of the scene a lot. You've basically adapted the scene to look as if it was shot on a 15mm lens instead of a 35mm one.
Though there is of course the fact that AI doesn't need to follow the laws of physics, it just needs to look kinda like it does. So it can get away with avoiding other effects of using a wide-angle lens like foreshortening and barrel distortion.
I particularly enjoyed how some of the Star Wars imagery was converted into vertical format. It felt like a lot of the shots visually connected the subjects with the earth and the sky or outer space, giving the scenes a new and fitting context. I would love to see a large-budget film in the hands of a talented director shot in this format, exploring how they might use it. Film seems like the only medium where we stick to such rigid formats and are so afraid to break conventions. I don’t understand why creatives aren’t more willing to push the boundaries of their mediums.
Somehow what started out as a video against AI turned into a love letter to Plaster. This is the kind of content I need in my life.
"You didn't include the ceiling because you didn't care about plaster--so you can't fake it now." damn, why did that get me?
YES. Perfectly said.
my sister is an actress and has been in several "verticals" which are like a la carte soap operas marketed to chinese consumers, meant to be watched on phones!
ive seen these!
Oh yeah they're that kind of dhar mann type of videos
Plaster is, indeed, a really rewarding medium. Lately, I've been working (on and off) on a painted plaster canvas technique for abstract landscapes. It's lots of fun to work in texture, color, and incorporate physical objects. It's very versatile.
Is it like those oil paintings with really thick paint? Or is it more sculpted?
@@justforplaylists The main idea is that plaster dries quickly and holds its shape, but paint dries slowly and shrinks a great deal. I make a wide box about an inch deep, and add wet plaster nearly to the top. In this way, there is no actual canvas; the plaster is the "canvas". Then I pour paint from squeezey ketchup bottles at various heights to drive in volumes of paint. The plaster hardens around the channels and pools, creating paint-filled cavities. Then the channels and pools dry up and leave only a coating on the inner surface of the cavities.
There are many more things that can be done to the plaster after adding paint, but that's where this idea starts each time.
@@swagswap Sounds cool!
@@swagswap Do you share any of your work online? It sounds really interesting, I'd love to see the end result.
@@Cia_8 I haven't shared any of the plaster/paint stuff since it's really still in the technique-testing stage, but there are plenty of interactive lamps, musical/food robots, and cute dog videos on my youtube channel. Most of my videos have been shorts for a while now.
This feels painfully related to those house flippers on tiktok that just go in and make everything "modern" (read paint everything white/cream/beige/brown/black)
Just a complete lack of curiosity about these creations, all for the quick return of "more of the same".
I hate it I hate it so much especially because those movies have such great cinematography. There's a reason why the director chose that specific shot, why you're seeing everything you're seeing on the screen. I can't even formulate a coherent thought, these vertical videos enrage me so much.
Yes, but what if they moved the camera way back and turned it sideways? Wouldn't that have been better?
@@plateoshrimp9685not necessarily? it depends on why it would be shot vertically. it’s quite difficult to shoot vertically because the history and conventions of cinema are based in horizontal shooting. it’s hard to translate those concepts into vertical. however, if the director really decided that they wanted to shoot the whole thing vertically, and put in the work to hand craft the entire shot in a vertical format… then yeah it would probably look pretty good too. i think most people agree that horizontal isn’t better than vertical (even though we’re more used to horizontal) it really just comes down the artistic intent of the director & cinematographer.
@@unconcernedsalad2 Horizontal isn't _inherently_ better than vertical in all instances (paintings and stills photography has always employed both, after all), but there's a reason that films went wide rather than tall: human lives predominantly take place on a horizontal plane. We move left and right, forwards and backwards far more than we do up and down. Since most films concern human activities and interaction, it makes sense to prioritise width over height. Theatre stages are predominantly horizontal; while many productions do incorporate vertical elements, you'd be hard-pressed to find one taller than it is wide.
Different works have different needs, of course, and filmmakers have always played around with aspect ratio, and a feature-length film certainly could be very artfully realized in portrait format, but I dont think it would ever make sense as the predominant format for cinema.
(I don't think I'm really disagreeing with you, other than to say that the history and conventions of cinema don't _arbitrarily_ prioritize horizontal aspect ratios.)
@@plateoshrimp9685 no, because if you want for example a shot with one person near the camera and another further away in the background and some sweet shallow depth of field, and then move the camera away, then the two subjects would be more close to each other with respect to their distance from the camera.
Also cropping often plays a role in the narrative. For example The Lighthouse was shot with aspect ratio of 1.19 to 1, which is nearly square, to create a sense of claustrophobia. It wouldn't work as well if you extended some of the dimensions or moved the camera further away.
@@unconcernedsalad2there are very good reasons why film is shot horizontally beyond simply convention. Mostly one reason: human vision has a horizontal aspect ratio somewhere between 4:3 and 16:9 depending on how you measure. Generally speaking, it's close to 5:3.
This is not me being essentialist or saying it has to be done that way. Artistic vision supercedes everything. 1:1 film is very interesting, and one of my favourite vertically shot films is called [UNUM].
But our horizons are horizontal, our interiors are horizontal, our vision is horizontal, the layout of theatre and living room seating arrangements is horizontal. You can fit more on screen, you can have people talking to one another in the same frame, etc.
There are numerous very good reasons why film overwhelmingly has a horizontal aspect ratio beyond *just* convention.
I work in architectural history and it just makes me so sad that there is this world of history and beauty out there and yet people would rather just watch 'fake' videos. And yes. Yay plaster!! Thank you for making it interesting❤
The shot of you talking above the fireplace was better than every single AI vertical edit combined.
Bring back fanworks that take work and build community!! I love when anime fans share photos of their "pilgrimage" to real locations in their series and that inspires more people go visit...sometimes random locations lol. But I get to see it IRL out of animation and I love that too.
And fan edits that are actually edits that appreciate the work of the director
Kendra, your videos always make me feel better about humans and creativity. Thanks for that
Well said
I always appreciate the research you put into each video and the time you take to explain the very important details. ❤ I love walking any street with architecture that obviously took time, passion and incredible skill to create years ago. It is artwork that people live in and appreciate to this day. AI can never duplicate that.
I wonder why vertical video feels more natural to some (according to comments in the video) when we actually see horizontally
I think it's mostly children and people who spend WAY too much time looking at their stupid little phones.
It's natural to someone who spends way too much time scrolling their phone
I think that the "uncropping" of the video, while fake, serves to remove a lot of the intentionality behind the original framing and blocking, the lens choice, and the apparent distance to the subjects, who now occupy far less of the frame. The resulting image feels more natural to some because it now cinematographically closely resembles the sort of objective experience we all have when we notice a scene unfolding across a busy street- we can't zoom in or pan / tilt, we just ignore the useless areas of our broad field of vision.
I don't think this has anything to do with it being vertical, and I imagine the same effect would be apparent if you "uncropped" a 16:9 video into a bigger 16:9 field or stitched frames together from a moving camera to form a locked-off shot. (Which people have done for the Patterson-Gimlin film and the Zapruder film.)
do we though? I only feel this when I'm inside a regular room (because I see the ratio of the walls), but in general it's more like a big circle with the center being sharp and the edges blurry
It's because of how a lot of videos are filmed today, shot vertically on super wide phone cameras. I can see how a lot of people, especially Gen Z, will have subconsciously linked these two factors with the idea of what looks "natural"
The really scary thing about AI is the people who’s perceptions of life, art, and relationships are skewed because of its depictions
How can you look at those uncanny images and say it feels like you’re there… people are too easy to fool
True beauty in art is from the mastery of craft
yes it's just like how those perverted romance novels have spoiled and deceived the youth of our prior generation... they are getting the wrong idea about what is real!
Those people never existed to begin with. They were never alive. They were and still are brainless slaves.
This hurts me in a whole new way I didn't know that I COULD be hurt. Both in the topic, and the jokes.
So, thanks for the distraction. And for highlighting just how boring our ceilings are today. And for giving me a new book to add to my list, a new trade to try my hand at, and potentially a new disaster to create at my house (a turn of the century Carpenter Gothic that got flipped into a house, poor thing).
i think i understand how you feel.
the "It's like witnessing it first person" comment hurts my soul.
Our eyes DO NOT SEE THE WORLD IN VERTICAL FORMAT.
Your eyes are set in your head horizontally, your periferal vision is wider than it is tall, your eyes track movement more precisely horizontally than vertically, our ability to percieve depth your eye muscles move more easily from side to side than up & down, your neck moves side to side more easily than up & down... and all of this continues to be true even for people who grew up reading/writing languages with a horizontal script.
The idea that vertical videos are "first person view" feels like such a terminally online take, but I suppose that for many Alphas and younger Zoomers, their entire life *is* terminally online... and i don't know how i feel about this.
Maybe it's because of the differences in media we view, but the trend it reminded me of was the old 'artist takes a ccg card and expands the art from the tiny frame on the card to the full card, replicating the style of the original' (often Pokemon - I don't know why I've seen this done with Pokemon cards more than any other CCG). And I love that trend. Getting to see human interpretations of fictional locations and scenes expanded from their original imagining. It's humans making artwork expanding on the artwork of humans, creating a unique piece of cardboard as a result of it.
Which, what I like about that feels kind of like the opposite of this AI vertical video trend.
Exactly this.
I would actually find these videos really interesting if they were creating the actual space with real images and cg painting. Even a fully artistic rendering could be good.
But maybe those videos inspire people to get creative and create a similar art work or be inspired by the elongated version and create your own version? What do you think about that?
I love seeing how adobe generative fill draws never-before-seen backgrounds too. It’s fascinating to think about how the algorithm paints with limited information. Furthermore, the outputs can be beautiful.
opening this video i thought it would be about people cutting movies up into youtube shorts with weird stabilization. i had NO idea such a thing even existed. just... why? they even could've used some shots from the movie with the camera going up and down. not that ai bros would actually lift a finger to think of that
Same here, I had no idea people were doing it this way. I assumed this was gonna be about like, a trend in a few new movies where they frame things /specifically for ease/ of promotion in vertical video, centering the focus narrowly in the centre only
anything off social media hurts me to my core
says the person commenting on social media
@@feldinhowhoa
And yet, here you are.
@feldinho @everywhere2 I am a masochist.
@@feldinho TH-cam is a little different than TikTok/Facebook/Instagram/tumblr. It is social media but it’s got different vibes.
The ones who say the vertical edits feel like being in the shot first person are really making me shake my head. They've outed themselves as viewing their first person lives through a vertical screen to the point that they've forgotten their eyes have actual peripheral vision. All anyone has to do look at the room or landscape around them. This is why films have horizontal framing - because that's how our eyes see the world around us. And as for AI... just no.
Most cinematic movies do not use horizontal framing. They use virtual reality. A VR headset is the best display if you want to get as close to reality as possible 🌈
@@robertschnobert9090VR is also horizontal bro... like the eyes in a persons face are horizontal
@@robertschnobert9090 The quality of being cinematic is not synonynous with realism. Having more - or more accurate - information isn't inherently more artful; rather, giving the audience the ability to turn their head robs the filmmaker of one of the fundamental tools of the filmmaker, photographer, or painter: the frame. Containing the image in a rectangle is crucial to cinema. I don't say this to denigrate VR; it can be art on its own terms, just as sculpture doesn't invalidate painting (or vice-versa).
@ObscenelyMarvelous I don't think the feeling of actually being there can entirely be chalked up to "we've trained ourselves to view the world through phone cameras". I think it's more the uncanny effect of removing part of the cinematic language. We know that films aren't framed like this, so it seems voyeuristic, like someone recording a behind-the-scenes video or something. You see the floor coming almost all the way to the imaginary camera operator's feet. I think it's a similar effect to high framerate films feeling uncanny and like you're watching actors rather than characters.
They're just responding to it being a wider shot. They're actually noticing that it's simulating peripheral vision, albeit not as well as it would be horizontally.
Our eyes are oriented horizontally. Phones and social posting have turned us into cyclopses.
Or horses with blinders.
Or emboldened snake oil peddlers to market on a need for opening one's third eye
I must be the last person on earth to turn my phone sideways to watch video. Always seemed like a no-brainer to me.
thank you for bringing attention to this recent trend that is so anti-art... and doing so in such an elaborate way!! i hope at least some people who have previously enjoyed this type of tiktok can get a new perspective from what you said! and actually, i also feel like i got a different perspective on what makes them popular (still hate it though)
I enjoy those videos and I still enjoy them. I liked this video though I didn’t love its perspective on AI. In fact, it doesn’t seem to offer much of a perspective at all. It came across as a vague rant about the author’s discomfort with AI, without offering many concrete problems.
Even if a cinematographer had never intended to shoot a film vertically, it would be very interesting if we could reshoot these movies for every format, phone included, for free. We can’t. The next best thing an interested fan can make is an informed guess as to what a vertical version of the film would look like. That’s what generative AI provides. The output is generally pretty good, and it gives me a new perspective on the movie. I like it.
Woo! Congrats on 100K, Kendra! ❤
I’ve seen a few of these edits and really enjoyed them. I knew immediately that they were using AI to extend the scene because I’m a photographer and I use those AI tools in my work occasionally. The crux of a lot of the issues with AI is when people can’t tell what’s real and fake when it changes the integrity of the source material. Yet again, we really need the social media platforms to catch up with the AI technology and label things appropriately.
Did not expect a video about TikTok to remind me of my grandfather. He was a sculptor who worked in Hollywood and for one of the companies he had to join the plasterers union. My family used to laugh about how silly that seemed but it makes a lot more sense now.
Omg congratulations on 100,000!! 👏🎉 Here's to seeing what you do in the future 🥰🥂
I was not expecting to learn about plaster, either the material or the construction and form, yet here I am, and I am delighted
YES! i’ve been waiting for somebody to talk about this, i feel cuckoo!!
film and television are mediums with their own visual languages that convey meaning and story in all of the frames, in what is shown AND what is not shown. this just means we’re reconstituting them into sh*tty, listeria-contaminated hamburger: easy to eat, no nutrients.
I am loving the shade Mr Bankart is throwing at architects at 8.17, giving off about their gap years
6:16 I couldn't agree more with everything you said, but this in particular really struck me: "The shot-vertically TikTok couldn't even comprehend the type of intricacy and money that we're talking about here." THIS. And also why AI more generally fails on so many levels. Bravo!!
Kendra, I have to say the way you present each of your videos blows my mind away each time with how well researched and articulated each of your points are, especially when delving into historical contexts. Bravo! 👏🏼
Love the goofy vibes tied with a very thoughtful take on AI. Keep it up!
Yet again, AI fails us.
Who is Al and why does everyone hate him?
It failed us from the beginning because corporate greed has taken too hard and fast of a hold on anything new. It could be used for disabled people to help them communicate, could be used to help assist people learning math, or help reorganize sources and cite them in MLA to cut down on tiny little inconveniences…but instead, we use it to replace artists, what we thought was the final frontier of human emotion untouched by corporations, but nope. Yeah let’s force these starving artists to starve even more by “paying” these random algorithms to “generate” “new” things for us! Totally isn’t plagarism!
@@SamRK-1000 Oh I totally agree. But what does this have to with this Al character? Do you think that Al short for Alexander or perhaps Alejandro?
@@jk-offline994 Al Gore maybe, Alexandre Dumas possibly, Alex Jones even?????
@@SamRK-1000humanity is losing its soul
You're smart and nice and cool too! And you speak about subjects that I'm very interested in. Thanks, and congratulations on your plaque; it's well deserved!
Your videos are my comfort place 💙
congrats on 100k subscribers! i adore your content. it would be cool to see you talk about seattle's architecture, i grew up in seattle and it's still my favorite city.
Stadiums been highly renovated this past year too, especially its sports fields
I thought this was going to be about content being filmed vertically, and I’m disappointed but not surprised by the actual issue.
It definitely sucks to be losing the beautiful architectural details of the real rooms, but there’s been shitty AI ‘historical architecture’ going around for a while.
It sucks even more how much people don’t care, and seem to think that detail-less vertical footage where you can barely see the characters and the landscape makes no sense are ‘more cinematic’ than the original shots.
Last year I got to see a beautiful film I’ve loved for years in a theater for the first time, on 35mm film and I felt like I was watching it for the first time. It was unbelievable to see the details up close that I hadn’t caught when they were on my family TV or my laptop screen. There’s tons of other movies I want to see blown up in theater, and the thought of shrinking them down instead to a phone screen is just really sad.
I appreciate you "meeting them where they are" to the vertical video fans, but without compromising your own position or principles.
Im reminded how much more plaster and plaster work was seen to be bothersome by the people who lived 50s-70s, most people complained about how hard it was to keep clean and how cobwebs and dust would appear rapidly.
Also, I know Im old because I’m Horizontal and I can’t stand Vertical
give👏me👏the👏left👏and👏right👏side👏of👏You
Very interesting to think of the frustration towards plaster at that time. It's right when drywall was becoming the building standard (which also requires less labor). In my last video I mentioned an Addams Family cartoon which definitely worked into the same idea of old houses with plaster being full of cobwebs and dust. Love seeing how it all connects!
@ thank you so much for replying to my comment, very cool! Yes I agree, tastes and values change over time but what’s the meat and potatoes is how those trends come back. We live in the age of the simulacra.
AI is part of the enshitification of everything we are living.
Heyo! This is the first I’ve watched your videos! Wow, im in love with your voice and the slower paced editing, just the minimum, and i feel refreshed, im ready to start my day :) thank you, i really enjoy your style and i will be hanging ‘round! ❤
I think it is worrying that for them a phone screen aspect ratio is "uncropped" and "real"
The 2005 Pride & Prejudice was shot in a format called Super 35, where the 2.39:1 aspect ratio would be extracted & enlarged from a negative with a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio (depending on whether it was 4- or 3-perf), and sometimes that meant they could "open up" the frame on home video, rather than cropping it (because that was still a consideration in 2005). I haven't seen the "Full Screen" version of P & P to know to what extent it was opened up (some Super 35 movies still wound up panned & scanned, some directors/DPs preferred it because the lenses were lighter & didn't require as much light vs anamorphic (the other way to get a 2.39:1 aspect ratio on 35mm film) it was also easier to incorporate CGI into before lens modeling was a thing) I wonder if whoever runs that acct knows about that.
Problems regarding AI aside, I think it’s beautiful that as a species we continue to develop new ways to experience the travel and adventure that we inherently crave, when we can’t afford to do so ourselves. Traveling is expensive, and a privilege, so is being physically well enough to do the traveling. I say if it doesn’t hurt anything, let the people have their escapism.
I love the idea of Dear Photograph! It makes me want to print out some of my photos from my phone and go on a little nostalgia trip.
Also Kendra the way your videos are structured is soo satisfying. I’m always asking “Where is this topic going?” And you don’t disappoint!
i joked with a friend once - that one day in the therter.
after thay play the adds and trailers before of the movie the curtains will slide across horizontally making the screen vertical to play the movie.
perhaps that day is not as far away as i thought.
...what?
And hey, congrats on the plaque, and for making such memorable and entertaining films!
Thank you for keeping art alive🫶
The vertical cut at 15:14 scared me🤣🤣
Always always always love your videos. Your voice and perspective is incredibly unique and makes me remember why I studied interior design at Uni, even if I didn’t do anything with my degree. I think you’re the best
Hurrah, new KG just dropped! 😊🎉
I always learn something new when I come to your channel, I was not expecting it to be about plaster but I am fully on board. Your presentation is wonderful, and the structure of the videos themselves always impress me. Lovely video!
So glad i stumbled across this. Great work!
As an ecologist, it hurts me to hear that the outside shots look fine. I get that the inside shots are easier to notice for an interior designer, but that Oak tree looks very ill.
Finally another Quibi truther, great vid!
there are 10s of us!
This is such a wonderful, charming letter to craftsmanship and shared experiences
The Art of the Plasterer and The Stones of Venice are two books on architecture and craftsmanship that i adore.
SoO many interesting thoughts in one video! I never comment on YT videos but I just have to show my support. I’m a huge fan Kendra!
Another amazing video! And congratulations 🎉 on 100k subscribers!
Thank you, Meredith! You've been here since the early days!
I just liked looking at the ceilings and rugs. Thanks for showing the real history of the placemarkers in said films. The art was real to me, thru my screen and you were the curator . Good work good bye subscribed
YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!! You rock! I totally didn't tear up hearing you reached 100k subscribers...... Also it seems to me that people are trying to get a different perspective on reality becuase it is so stressful, but they shouldn't be looking for it online.
I seriously appreciate the thoughtful content you post - especially needed it today. Thank you!
I would listen to you talk about anything but honestly, I always learn something so thank you!
Yes to the plaque and yes to another brilliant video! You always have such an interesting perspective! Thanks 💗
What a brilliant contrast between the friction of memory and the real in the Dear Photograph site and the slippery simulated recognition of the TikTok extensions. Again brilliant ❤
Well, now you have 100,001 subscribers-figuratively speaking, of course. It's nice to finally meet you! This was a great video.
Congrats on 100k!!!! 🎉🎉
I can't even say how happy I was to see this pop up. I have been screaming into the void about this topic. Thank youuuu
You really had me in the first half ngl 😭😭 I feel like there's so much that AI is abused for, I have become actively incapable (especially in the current climate of everything) to take umbrage about this particular issue.
I know some people like to be up in arms about the fact that directors chose shots for a certain reason, but a. That's kinda not true (which is why you later have directors' cut releases in the first place) and B. It's sort of like saying that if a play was performed once with a certain interpretation then that's it. Nobody can have it any other way. I feel like this particular use of AI is more like the early days of Wikipedia where it is a great jumping off point but you can't trust it further than you can throw it (and boy do I have spindly arms)
Don't get me wrong I hate the route our timeline has taken with AI and do not use it myself but wouldn't it be great if like, Joe Wright saw these and released a 16x16 version or something? A VR experience?
I just feel like, if we become monolithically averse to AI, due to the way it is being used against the general populace instead of for, and never exercise it to make good, creative things (with a lot of ethical considerations and caveats), in ten years time they're going to try and convince us that there was no other way for AI to be used, and I want to be able to say no, it could have been an excellent tool, with examples to back me up. I saw this happen with drones too; the technology got abused for war instead of being helpful. It keeps reminding me that the surgeon's scalpel and a soldier's sword both cut through flesh and bone, both at cross purposes.
Anyway, I love plaster, I adore the effect it gives, I love watching videos of plaster art being done, and let me tell you, it looks seductively easy when someone else does it. It made me cry
Excellent video as always 💗💗💗
Congratulations on the plaque! Well deserved! I love your videos and I love Ten Things I Hate About You
10 things I love about Kendra’s videos anyone?
This is why I have no interest in those little toys. They distort reality to an unreasonable degree. Can anyone really be so ignorant of filmmaking that they think these videos are "uncropped"? They're SEVERELY cropped. And do they really see the world in thin little vertical strips? Because that's the only explanation for thinking these things look "real". Bizarre. We're going to end up with everyone seeing the world in self-inflicted tunnel vision, everything outside of that little strip becoming invisible.
Congrats on the TH-cam milestone! Always in awe of your solid research skills. Greetings from Brussels.
Congrats on 100k Kendra!!! 100% deserved. You're such a wonderful voice on the platform :)
Congratttsss!! I'm so happy to see your channel working out for you and growing. I don't miss any video you make. Keep it up, please!
"Harry Potter interstellar little woman"? That's a movie I'd pay to see ;-)
Congratulations on 100,000! You deserve it! You are such an excellent Creator and I'm so happy to listen to your informative and thoughtful videos🎉
To get the plaque on a video where you absolutely nail why you deserve 100k subscribers is awesome. Great video.
just found your vids! I love your history pop culture stuff. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations! I really enjoy the thoughtful, humorous and carefully researched content on this channel and I'm glad you are getting the views and attention you richly deserve.
This is one of my favorite YT channels! I love your voice and your humor. Congrats on 100k! ✨
Congrats on the play button!! I’m so glad I came across your channel when I did ❤
Better than cropping them left and right 😅
I am sure we might see „vertical“ movies soon. The reason why movies used to be „horizontal“ is because it mimics our eyeline. We see things horizontally. We see more on the sides than on the top or bottom of our „frame“.
Really interesting video. I didn’t know this kind of AI extension is a thing.
So, essentially, it's for those who can't be bothered to take half a second to flip their phone 90 degrees, so they'd rather watch AI porrige ... Humanity is going to hell.
Great video! Had me laughing in several places. And congrats on the 100K subs.
I think we as people lost something when we stopped naming rooms, making them themed. Like the peacock room, which is a famous story and highly worth reading about.
Obviously what made kendra angry was a rug looking wrong lol. Lovely video, It so cool you brough attention to those parts of architecture, history and change of perspective induced by new media
Great work Kendra love your channel! ❤️
1:47 Correct. The comment, "this is so cinematic," is painful to my core. I have been making movies for 25 years. Our eyes are horizontal. Cinema screens are horizontal. Their comment is plain incorrect.
Definitions change over time you can never rely on language... a small Google search quickly shows that "cinematic" has no true meaning today and that it has been slowly becoming a word to describe a certain aesthetic, that is no longer limited by cinema technicalities (24fps, shot on film, aspect ratio, etc) but general audiovisual vibes.
Many real life moments can feel cinematic too, for example : the Hindenburg disaster, the sunlight hitting buildings a certain way, or running through a field of wheat on a hot summer day, heck even a whole city can feel cinematic, for me it's New York, and everybody knows that New York ain't exactly the horizontal type.
Cinematic has no meaning anymore and that's fine, their comment is not incorrect.
@jojothepro15 You're so right. How could I have been so misguided. Thanks for the clarification that words have no meaning.
@@DerrickJLive Damn I really expected a much better answer than that.
@@jojothepro15 A small Google search quickly shows that "better" has no true meaning. What is better for you might not be better for others, so there is really no one who can be correct.
@@DerrickJLive Stop acting in bad faith. You know my point was not about words having no intrinsic meaning but rather their usage changing their meaning over time.
Everything these days seems to say to us ”don’t pay too close attention”. Scary
This is why I practically live in TH-cam, to learn about these niche stuff. Now I want to go to England and have an 2005 P&P tour. As for the vertical aspect, I think whole movies won’t be made into that, because I am guesssing (and hoping) people won’t be holding their phones for 2 hours straight. If these vertical cinematic shots get people to be interested in these movies…that’s an advantage.
Congratulations on 100K!🎉💕
I’ve visited Burghley House (3:50) and Wilton House (6:23) and they both are absolutely gorgeous English stately homes! Pride and Prejudice was absolutely correct to film everything using real life historic buildings (Chatsworth House, Burghley House, Wilton House, Basildon Park, Groombridge Place, Haddon Hall, Stourhead Gardens, Weekley Village in Northamptonshire [home of Mr. Collins] or the historic stone town of Stamford in Lincolnshire [Meryton]). It just makes everything feel so much more authentic and beautiful.
Congrats on making it to 100,000!
The excitement I got every time you pulled out The Art of Plaster
Yay, 100,000! Congratulations. Best channel on youtube.
Congrats on the plaque!
Austen spent so much time describing the scene and the house as reflective of the atmosphere and the people, production designers or location scouts spend so much time helping chose what would be the perfect frame. Just like Kubrick shot the shining in a way that would not be cropped for the television aspect ratio of the day, and some people choose to frame in ways for IMAX and other formats so that the main information will be everywhere, this leads to the question about intention, how direction is drawn through framing, etc., and what future mediums will entail- perhaps things such as Apple, spatial video, etc.
In some ways, this is nothing new in terms of how the west was one being shot on Cinerama, and everything specifically after the academy aspect ratio was no longer the standard, especially when Film had to compete with television and try to make things more of a wide screen spectacular. There’s a great video on the Academy aspect ratio and the differences it produced in terms of performance and framing. This is all coming from someone who enjoys amorphic imagery as well.
When I film something I use a black magic cinema camera 6K and while 6K may seem overkill for someone who knows how to frame up a shot properly (my confidence on that may always waiver;), the ability to film with an open gate sensor, meaning more information on the top or bottom, or wherever you might need it if you crop, means that you can shoot things for horizontal or vertical distribution - sometimes social media, and something on TH-cam at 16 x 9 at the same time. I’m not sure how long it will take me to adjust to the idea of something vertical being cinematic, but I understand the personal feel of holding something in your hands and the immediacy and “real” feel of capturing things and then aspect ratio and then seeing things and then seeing things in that aspect ratio. And with a 17 K camera coming out from blackmagic, I wonder about all the possibilities and the fact that when they switched to widescreen, they had to choose an atmospheric approach and a different relation between characters. I could see the entire films being shot with the vertical in mind.
And I can also see AI getting better, and anyone with thought and intention, directing both AI and live action to supervise and try to ensure integrity. Or using an AI just to blend something shot at the same time so that you truly are using the original artistry that went into the molding and other aspects of the artistry that created the spaces that were meant to wow and impress and give you a sense of those with status- and how their environments reflected their character, to the point where you could realize that a guy might not be so bad if he treated his workers well, and maintained his property in a welcoming, proper man(or;)…
"It looks like you're there" to who? Someone with horse blinkers on?
Well done Kendra. I am obsessed with your videos!