Why by height and not width? Doing by height is a huge pain in the ass and results in either tiny 4:3 screens or gigantic 2.2:1 ones.sebby on Oct 4 2017, 05:40:30 PM wrote:All I ask for screenshots in a poll is that they're the same size (by height; obviously AR makes it impossible for them to all be exactly the same). OCD me would be awfully appreciative.
Oof. I meant width. Compare the following pairs and it's easy to see why exact width looks cleaner as you scroll through results.PeacefulAnarchy on Oct 4 2017, 06:14:13 PM wrote:Why by height and not width? Doing by height is a huge pain in the ass and results in either tiny 4:3 screens or gigantic 2.2:1 ones.sebby on Oct 4 2017, 05:40:30 PM wrote:All I ask for screenshots in a poll is that they're the same size (by height; obviously AR makes it impossible for them to all be exactly the same). OCD me would be awfully appreciative.
In general our screenshots are 640x480 for 4:3 and either 700 or 800 width for widescreen. A few movies have smaller screens because of lack of sources with higher resolution.
This forum hasn't allowed images to break tables for at least a year, so that's not really an issue here, though people who post gigantic images still cause slow load times.weirdboy on Oct 4 2017, 09:51:26 PM wrote:Fixed width is better for not breaking web browsers.
While I don't quite understand the mechanics of how would you take a screenshot of your sock drawer, I will formally put in the request for one.sebby on Oct 4 2017, 06:44:21 PM wrote:It's not that big a deal, really. It's just many polls seem to have screenshots that are randomly grabbed and not resized, so it looks a bit messy. Probably doesn't bother most people. To me, matching by width is like a nice, ordered sock drawer. Heavenly heavenly. (Screenshots of my sock drawer available upon request).
I really liked both the aesthetics and meaning conveyed in my choice for Citizen Kane. Good point about the use of depth not being reflected in my suggestion though. And current SS does reflect that quite good. But surely there are better individual frames for that purpose? When it comes to 12 Angry Men I prefer my suggestion because it distinctly represent the whole premise/theme of the film. Current screen shot of Vertigo is insignificant/random and is unlikely to convince anybody to see it. Mine is both intriguing and represent its surreal style like you said. 2001 is criminally represented I think and its aesthetic vision needs fairer representation!PeacefulAnarchy on Oct 4 2017, 06:21:40 PM wrote:Dolwphin: I'd be curious to hear why you think that's a better screenshot for Kane or 12 Angry Men? I also disagree about 2001, but it's a film with a lot of visual styles and not a favourite of mine, so what I appreciate and consider representative won't be what others do. A Vertigo screenshot without Stewart is blasphemy, but there are certainly ones that are more representative of it's surreal style than the current one.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the 12 Angry Men one you picked, but it's a plainer shot than the current one.
The current Kane shot also has the snowglobe, but hints at its use of depth and shadows that I don't think yours does.
Coeur fidèle:Lonewolf2003 on Oct 7 2017, 09:03:18 AM wrote:With the 1920s poll coming up, improvements of 20s movies ss are most welcome. Thanks for the two above
Cool! From my perspective almost all screen shots needs replacement. But that is obviously not going to happen over night. But would be nice if Top 100/250 looked better. With that said taste is subjective etc.joachimt on Oct 7 2017, 01:18:26 PM wrote:I updated the screens for The Third Man and Man With a Movie Camera in the masterlist of screens. I think these are clearly improvements. Most of the others are a matter of opinion.
There are probably lots of screens that really need updating, because the quality is bad and upgrades are available. During the countdown of polls, just pay attention everyone and offer better screens when something really needs an upgrade.
I don't feel like discussing which shot resembled a movie the best.
I have for previous ones.joachimt on Oct 8 2017, 03:41:36 AM wrote:Please post comparisons with the current screens, please. Otherwise I need to find the current shots in a separate file before being able to decide if they need replacements.
I think all are clearly improvements! With that said I'm not claiming that all my suggestions are perfect. That is why I suggested people feel free to post counter-suggestions. But currently many SS is not in ideal resolution and/or unappealing from an aesthetic point of view. Vertigo, for instance, is quite clear improvement in both senses.joachimt on Oct 8 2017, 09:19:45 AM wrote:I really don't see why your proposal for Le retour à la raison is any better than the current one. I don't want to sound ungrateful, because I am grateful for your effort, but please only post improvements for screenshots where it's absolutely clear that there should be something better available. If so, I'd be happy to change links in the master-list, but the way it's going now, I'm not going to bother at all.
Yea this is basically what I thought and couldn’t put into words. It really depends on the type of film, but I responded to the image I was more drawn to.funkybusiness wrote: ↑February 7th, 2019, 2:08 am #2 is a better composition but far more suggestive, it makes the film seem rather dour, so if it's a romantic comedy or something, than #1.
This. From these screenshots I get the impression those two are the main characters of the movie. And therefor the first I guess gives a better impression about the movie.PeacefulAnarchy wrote: ↑February 7th, 2019, 2:24 am I agree the second shot has interesting composition. It's a better image, but I feel like the first gives me a better sense of the film. I also think people sometimes undervalue composition in a shot like the first one. I haven't seen the film, though, so I don't actually know just my impression based on scrolling through it look for something to screenshot.
It's not really important, I don't know that the film will show up in any of our lists, besides DtC, any time soon, I just realized I took two shots and was curious.
Edit: It's Furitvos: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073028/
The ones I added were for other reasons (they were on runner up lists, or I expect them in an upcoming list) I'm certainly not adding all, or even most, of them. I just thought it was interesting to see what highly regarded movies don't interest us much.
