Aspect ratios are interesting in that they are a "technostalgia" that brings with it elements from the era in which it emerged and can feed the narrative. For example, portrait video nested within the full horizontal frame can suggest something confined or compressed or "shortened"--using a recent metaphor concerning aspect ratios. In 20 years (the typical time for a new nostalgia to be re-used), the Short from the 2020s will have other meanings, and so on.
Not to say I am a sage of some kind, but this is a diary entry from 2004 where I was thinking film should use the aspect ratio of a piece of paper. In some sense, portrait video is based on this idea. Of course, we use landscape orientation in the paper world but I think our natural instinct is to use portrait mode as a preference. Humans exist in a landscape, not vice-versa, but that's an interesting metaphor that you could play with as a concept.
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