Shooting a vertical video is quite hard. When it comes to composition, it feels restricted due to its narrow field of view, limiting the “mise en scene” we usually get from the cinematic field of view of a movie we see in a movie theater or a wide screen television. Definitely I am not used to it since I am more of a filmmaker that usually shoots on aspect ratios: I 1.85:1 and 2.39:1, but I have to train myself to be able to do it on this format, especially if the format is for the phone. This especially applies to IGTV or Instagram Story. Not to mention TikTok. Actually now Netflix is experimenting with mobile-first features such vibrating movies. In addition, Spotify is releasing vertical music videos. Finally, Chinese production companies are now making dramas for the phone using the vertical format. For sure, this is the future. But it doesn't mean we will lose the horizontal video format. As long as we have televisions and movie theaters, these horizontal formats are here to stay, but on the other hand, filmmakers like me need to adapt and learn how to make a film too using the vertical format. And if it is possible, it would be nice to shoot every project both ways, but that would be a lot more work. Anyway I think there are projects which are suitable only for vertical format and there are projects which are only suitable for horizontal format. On the other hand, a project can be done for both, but it will involve two creative approaches which, I think, are way different from each other. As for me, I have to retrain myself to learn how to shoot a film or video using the vertical video format, but the only way to learn is by shooting a lot more vertical videos. Maybe even try to shoot a fictional short film. I think, doing a vertical documentary video is easier than doing a fictional short film or even a feature length film in a vertical format. So expect to see more vertical videos from me, but I think my choice of using the vertical video format will depend on the subject matter and its intended outlet such as IGTV. I am even considering doing micro film (less than a minute) for TikTok. Let’s see how it goes.