Any:Ratio
From Davidbond.net
Any:Ratio is a concept I am working on for "open source" film-making. More details will follow on the Any:Ratio website.
The tagline is:
Learn the rules. Understand the rules. Respect the rules. Break The Rules.
What do I mean by this?
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Learn the rules
In order to progress, you should learn what others have done before. You should seek out the common features, or "rules" and get to know them.
Understand the rules
It is all very well to know the rules, but *why* have they emerged / evolved? What aspects of past environments have necessitated these rules to exist? In film-making, the most obvious environmental limitation has been the film stock, cameras and projectors themselves. In order for film-making to be financially feasible, film-makers have been limited to a certain number of frames per second, aspect ratios etc.
Respect the rules
There's no point in change for change's sake. The various frame-rates and aspect ratios have been selected carefully, and with thought. Frame rates of 24fps and 25 fps were selected for good reasons relating to the human eye's persistence of vision. 16:9 TV's ensures backward compatibility with previous ratios. Just because we can now make a film with a 1:1 aspect ratio, it does not mean we should.
Break the rules
Why not 1:1? Why not a circle, instead of a rectangle? Why not 1 frame per second? Why not portrait mode video? Because of momentum. Get off the bandwagon and start your own.
