To me, it's a lot of things. I think the cinema style is more about color grading than the aspect ratio.Is cinema style 16:9?
Is cinema style 16:9?
To me, it's what Mike said. Plus, a certain look to the image. Color grading, film noir, etc. to give it look of a movie.To me, it's a lot of things. I think the cinema style is more about color grading than the aspect ratio.
But I personally tend to keep with 2.35:1 anamorphic crop with a 16:9 letterbox just to make the viewer orient around the modern typical movie frame mindset. If I was a better colorist, it wouldn't be that necessary.
One could use the old Academy ratio with b&w pictures, could be very cinematic also.