Style Guide

[commando552]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Just for reference, can you link to a 2.39:1 screencap?

2.39:1 is the most common aspect ratio for modern cinema released films. For example, all the screenshots on the Expendables 2 page. An example of a page where the images are 16:9 using 600px thumbnails is Burn Notice Season 6 (along with most current television series like Hawaii Five-0, Nikita or Covert Affairs and movies that aren't 2.39:1).

[funkychinaman]

I just did the math. Most of the Blu-Ray caps I've taken are 2.4:1.

[funkychinaman]

I changed over the 21 Jump Street page to the proposed standard. Thoughts?

[Jcordell]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

I changed over the 21 Jump Street page to the proposed standard. Thoughts?

It looks pretty good. I went and finished the page for Rolling Thunder (only took me 27 months!) going with 600px for the screencaps and I like the look.

[funkychinaman]

I would like to standardize the western style for Asian names.

- If we're going to IMDB for media titles, then it makes sense to extend that to actor names as well, and IMDB goes western style.

- Some Asians have western names, so it'd be weird having two standards. (Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Jay Chou, etc)

- As the rules mention, we're an American site, where the American release date and American release title comes first, and all pages must be in English. Well, in the US, the surname goes on the end, with very few exceptions. (Chow Yun Fat and Yao Ming are the only two I can think of.) Everybody else, Byung-Hun Lee (look at the GI Joe: Retaliation poster), Ken Watanabe, Ichiro Suzuki, the Chinese lady in the neighboring cubicle, every Chinese person I ever grew up with in the US, uses the western style.

Are there any objections?

[funkychinaman]

How should we do ranks? Another user brought this up the other day, and I noticed it more while going though the Green Berets page. For example, Jim Hutton is credited on IMDB as "Sgt. Peterson," yet in his photo he's a SP5. Muldoon and Doc McGee are also listed as just Sergeants, yet their stripes say otherwise. Should actual insignia override the IMDB credit?

[SPEMack618]

Well, Petersen begins the film as a Spec-5, but eventually gets promoted to SGT when the Duke wants him for his A-Team.

However, Doc and Muldoon are MSGTs and SFCs respectifuly, so they should be listed as such.

I think we should use service specific abbreviations for each rank as we can.

[Ben41]

Originally Posted by commando552

2.39:1 is the most common aspect ratio for modern cinema released films. For example, all the screenshots on the Expendables 2 page. An example of a page where the images are 16:9 using 600px thumbnails is Burn Notice Season 6 (along with most current television series like Hawaii Five-0, Nikita or Covert Affairs and movies that aren't 2.39:1).

I agree that 2.39 to 1 widescreen films should only go up to 600px since this has been the standard widely used throughout the site. 500px was originally the norm, but it was logical to change this with HD sources more readily available.

I generally believe that films that are shot in the 16x9 or 1.85x1 format should be 600px if the screencaps are high quality enough (either HD or directly from a commercial DVD). Otherwise, 500px for these films.

As for older films in the 4x3 format, 400px to 500px depending on the quality.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Ben41

I agree that 2.39 to 1 widescreen films should only go up to 600px since this has been the standard widely used throughout the site. 500px was originally the norm, but it was logical to change this with HD sources more readily available.

I generally believe that films that are shot in the 16x9 or 1.85x1 format should be 600px if the screencaps are high quality enough (either HD or directly from a commercial DVD). Otherwise, 500px for these films.

As for older films in the 4x3 format, 400px to 500px depending on the quality.

I've changed the style guide back and changed the pages that were made in the meantime while we discuss this. For my two cents, I'm pro-700px for anamorphic widescreen, as A) most films today are filmed in HD, B) HD and BD caps are more and more prevalent, and C) widescreen monitors are also more and more prevalent. On the other hand, I agree that 700px caps for non-HD or BD caps don't look great.

(Speaking of, we need someone to get BD caps for Lawrence of Arabia.)