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Letterbox, letterboxing
An alternative to pan and scan, letterboxing is a process of squeezing a widescreen movie into a fullscreen, 4:3 format, while still retaining the widescreen aspect ratio. As a result, you'll see two black bars on the bottom and at the top of the screen. Pro: unlike pan and scan, nothing is cropped away. Con: unlike anamorphic widescreen, the picture quality and resolution isn't optimised due to the black bars taking up unnecessary resources. If it's hard to understand, just remember this: Anamorphic widescreen > letterbox > pan and scan.
Live-action
A movie shot with real people and locations, as opposed to animation.
Long Shot
More commonly known as a Wide Shot. See Wide Shot.
Looping
See Dubbing. |
