1 The Director of Photography – an overview

196 Practical Cinematography
Figure 21.9 A 14 � 9 composition
on a 16 � 9 frame with 4 � 3 frame
pan and scanned
Figure 21.10 A 4 � 3 frame pan
and scanned from 14 � 9
composition
also make every effort to ensure that I attend that transfer. Figure 21.9
shows how 16 � 9, 14 � 9 and 4 � 3 would look using this principle.
Therefore, if this composition were later transmitted on a full format
16 � 9 system, then it would look like the white outline in Figure 21.9.
Not fantastic, but very acceptable, for putting the undergraduates on
the edge of this frame, as in Figure 21.6, has more impact. The midgrey
outline is the primary composition; 14 � 9 and the light grey outline
would be the pan and scan 4 � 3 version, also very acceptable.
Without pan and scan the foreign sales version would look like
Figure 21.10 – which is still unacceptable.
On the other hand, let us assume that the producers have retained
sufficient funds for a pan and scan transfer and have invited the cinematographer
to supervise it. What a difference this would make. Any
foreign purchaser would not only be pleased with the framing of