GreenPat said..Speak for yourself, that wasn't quite funny enough to justify VV to me.
C'mon. The Mona Lisa was VV for its time. Sometimes it is more appropriate. Filming giraffes, or pole-vaulters, or stilt walkers, or geysers, for example.
But seriously, if you watch practically any movie they use "vertical video" all the time!
You just said...
[cough cough] ...WHAT!?
While they'll be filming in wide screen, of course, they block out most of the scene with a shoulder, or a wall or something similar, leaving the focal point framed vertically. It's very common. You'll start noticing it all the time now.
I don't know the official term for it so couldn't find any more examples than this:
"Hello ladies. Would you like to join me in my vertical boudoir?"Actually this guy is filming the ice slips in vertical mode, but the important part of the image is square, or slightly wide. His car bonnet makes it that way. Yes, it's a silly way to do it but it kinda works, placing the location of the narrator in a car very clearly.
Next week: I spoil nature documentaries. Think those animals are actually in the wild? Think they really have a microphone in there with the feasting lions?