Is this a strictly full screen film or is there a wide screen? I just put it only my blockbuster online list and noticed it said it was full screen and since it's a British movie, I don't know what exactly to think. Could anyone shed some light? (Right now it's #52 on my list, so there's no rush)
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As far as I know the movie has a US version: B.U.S.T.E.D. and it could be a full screen!
sharefull screen is basicly your 4:3 ratio presentation so it seems streched on a wide screen TV/LCD/plasma etc which potrays the picture in a 16:9 ration which is basicly a scaled down version of the cinema screen or what the director intended. Widescreen is the standard everything goes by when you goto the cinema, watch dvd movies, tv etc, it gives you the whole field of vision, its natural to the eyes & it does'nt strain the eyes either (providing you view whatever your viewing on a widescreen tv and the dvd e.g is widescreen. I better not get off the point I sound like a sales man,lol.
Because its a minor film production by isle of man they shooted it all in 4:3 so that means its streched, the left and right parts of the screen are cut off.
So Basicly it looks *beep*
I wonder if it wasn't just a low budget film-to-video transfer done with VHS and TV in mind. At least they did the soundtrack music properly loud.
By the way, you can watch 4:3 stuff on a widescreen TV with black bars at the sides, although with plasma and CRT sets this runs some risk of uneven screen burn.
Maybe it'll come out on HD-DVD in widescreen. I'd buy it.
so it was actually shot for 4:3? i think this is what the op is asking (and also what i'd like to know) because i've only seen it on dvd as 4:3
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Don't know. Next time I watch it, I'll see if there's any obvious clues. It could have been shot full-frame with the intention of matting it down to widescreen for a theatrical release. They'd compose the picture for the widescreen portion of the frame, but make sure to keep boom mics and cables and stuff out of view above and below (within the 4:3 frame).
The DVD transfer is pretty poor quality: the credits are barely legible. That makes me suspect it was sourced from a video tape, and if so, maybe that tape version was done pan & scan so it would be more suitable for VHS and TV.