I was looking at my test footage at full 853 x 480 resolution (16 x 9). Everything looks big! It's that framing problem I keep running into where I tend to frame really tight. The footage looks better the smaller it displays on screen. So I got the idea of changing the aspect ratio of the film from 16 x 9 to the super-wide 2.35:1. To do this you stay at 853 x 480 but add bars to the top and bottom.
When I looked through my footage I found that it's really easy to make this conversion. I light with so many black shadows that all I have to do is fill in the empty space with more black. To sell the effect I just need to composite something in the black space here and there (you know, lightbulbs). This opens a whole can of worms adding even more effects shots to the to-do list. Where do I stop? I just eye-balled the test images above which is why the aspect ratios aren't consistent.
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