Studio

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Designing for 9:16 from the storyboard up

Vertical isn’t a crop. How we frame, light and edit when the phone is the only screen that matters.

Frame for the thumb

The first half-second decides everything. We storyboard vertical spots around a single readable shape in the centre of the frame.

Safe zones are part of the composition

Captions, handles and buttons cover a third of the screen. We design around them instead of fighting them in the edit.

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