Aspect Ratio

Aspect Ratio is the size of the TV screen.

 

4:5                                              Small screen TV

 

16:9                                                                  Wide screen TV.  

                                                                        (Gives the viewer a better image)

Some editors will use pan scan to fit the screen in to the 16:9 to the 4:3 screen. This is not good because it cuts of the edges of the screen and some things may be taking place in that area that will not be visible to the audience.

	Both of the edges are cut out of a 16:9 to fit into a  4:3

 

Letter boxing gets a wide screen on to a small screen by fitting the whole image on but with a black box on top and bottom.

 

If you fit a 4:3 screen on a 16:9 screen the image becomes stretched

A good way of fitting it on to a 16:9 screen s by pillar boxing