Pan And Scan

What is pan and scan?  Why was it created?  How does it affect a film when it's transferred from the theatre to home video?  In your own words explain 3 examples from the video on how pan and scan changes what the filmmakers intended.

Pan and scan is when you make a widescreen film a rectangle fit into a square format on a television screen. It is in a sense technically redirecting the movie. Making your frame smaller can cause you to lose the effect of all the stunt work in the sequence it reduces your film to a confused blur.  A wider frame contains many elements. Your eye sees all of them, some of them peripherally (at the corner of your eye), and some of them as a point of focus. Doing a pan and scan can change the way the director intended their film to look like. It is often not a great idea to just do a pan scan without taking your time to not film it in a different aspect ratio. 



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