Seen on social media: "One thing that I did not like at all about The Substance was how it was filmed as if being cut into TikToks was its ultimate end goal. The action in every scene happens pretty much in the middle of the screen... It just looks so lifeless."
I was going to go off on the sad state of media literacy in today's culture, but I reconsidered and thought I'd rather do something fun instead.
The original post implies that the filmmakers of "The Substance" (2024) chose to center-frame their film so that it would look good on TikTok. Which is absolutely bonkers. It also implies that there was very little artistic intent behind the framing choices of the movie.
Just to illustrate the lunacy of implying that the central reason for center-framing a movie is TikTok, I decided to drop actual frames from "The Shining" (1980) -- a film with prominent center-framing -- into an iPhone 16 screen without doing any repositioning or scaling.
Who knew Stanley Kubrick made his film to look good on TikTok?! Amazing foresight from the master filmmaker!
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