Letterboxing

Letterboxing

After looking at other films and other film opening with similar target audiences (Submarine, This is England) I have noticed the screen ration is different to the screen ration of our film opening. The original screen ration of film on premiere is 4:3, we have decided to use a technique called Letterboxing, this is where the ration of the screen image is changed to 16:9, this is a more appropriate screen ration for films that are shown at cinemas and is the ration most often used in professional films. I made the letterbox effect originally in Photoshop, and exported the image as a gif allowing the background to be transparent. This meant the footage could be played in between the bars changing the size of the black bars and making the ration 16:9.