The Inevitable Move To Vertical Video In Movie Making

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Originally Posted by Steedeel

You guys continuously fail to see things as they probably will be, you are stuck in the now and don’t have any vision.

We're not stuck in the now. Quite the opposite, in fact. I'm not going to speak for anybody else but my beliefs about what might be down the road are greatly informed by what has come before.

You didn't invent doom and gloom. You're not the first person to predict the death of Hollywood and you won't be the first one to be dead wrong about it.

TV was going to kill movies. Cable was going to kill movies. Videocassettes were going to kill movies. MTV was going to create a generation of ADD cases that wouldn't sit still for a whole movie and that was going to kill movies. Then it was a reliance on blockbusters and CGI and the internet.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Originally Posted by Steedeel

It’s only a matter of time before Hollywood chases the young audiences (and the money) by making vertical films and tv content. It’s going to happen, it’s a stick on.

Look to history.

Kids have been addicted to TV for as long as there has been TV. And how did Hollywood respond? By being more like TV?

No, they responded by being less like TV. They explored all sorts of mechanisms (and more than a few gimmicks) to differentiate their product from TV shows.

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Then, what happens to the TV set? Maybe Steedeel is right, there wouldn’t be any need for TV sets or cinema if vertical content wins out.

Maybe. Maybe one day we'll all be watching the World Cup and the Super Bowl and Avengers XXXIV vertically on our phones.

But probably not.