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• Red Riding In The Year of Our Lord 1974 was shot using 16mm film. • Used Mainly between 1960’s and 1980’s • Red Riding In The Year of Our Lord 1980 was shot using 35mm film • Red Riding In The Year of Our Lord 1983 was shot using the Red One digital camera • Used in films such as //District 9// (2009) and //Knowing// (2009) as well as high end television drama such as //Supernatural.// • Used for effect, but also a good example of advances in technology through history of television and film. • CGI – Now more commonplace on television drama. • Shows such as //Heroes// and //Doctor Who// use CGI frequently, where as previously it was mainly used in films. • CGI now so accessible that //Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius// (2001) was made entirely using ‘off the shelf’ technology • Usage of CGI and top of the line digital camera technology has helped to make the distinction in quality between television and film smaller.
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• Now more common for actors and directors to work in high television drama as well as film due to the smaller gap in quality between film and television drama, as well as budgets. • Red Riding was written by Tony Grisoni who has also written the big screen version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. • Ridley Scott is rumoured to be the Director for the American film remake of Red Riding. • //Matrix// (1999) star Laurence Fishburne in CSI: Las Vegas • Quentin Tarrantino directing episodes of CSI • Quote from Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004) used in CSI: Grave Danger Volume 1 <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">• "Normally you'd be 100% right, but this time you're 100% wrong.“ <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">•  [] <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">•  Wire star says Britain does ‘costume drama brilliantly’ but there is a ‘lack of high end drama’ <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">•  America has several well known high end television dramas with high profile actors starring in them
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As previously mentioned the advancements made in television drama have been numerous and significant. In the past television drama was at a much lower standard than film, with lower quality film and much lower budgets.
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In terms of Red Riding, it is in three parts, the third of which we watched this week (in the year of our lord 1983) different qualities of filming were used for each part.

In The Year of Our Lord 1974 was shot using 16mm film, which was used mainly between the 1960’s and the 1980’s, where was In The Year of Our Lord 1980 was shot using 35mm film.

The final part, In The Year of Our Lord 1983 was shot using the Red One digital camera, which has been used to shoot high profile films such as District 9, Knowing and also American high end television drama Supernatural.

Red Riding being shot in these three different ways was done to achieve different effects to reflect the decade, or year it was representing, however if you look at the three parts, there is a noticeable difference in quality I think it is also a very good example of advancements in technology.

CGI is now much more commonplace on television drama than it has ever been. Mainstream television dramas such as Heroes, Doctor Who and Supernatural use CGI on a weekly basis, where as recently as ten years ago you would only really see Computer Generated Imagery on the big screen.

CGI now so accessible that //Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius// (2001) was made entirely using ‘off the shelf’ technology messiah:studio and LightWave Usage of CGI and top of the line Usage of CGI and top of the line digital camera technology has helped to make the distinction in quality between television drama and film smaller.

The narrower gap between drama on television and film can be indicated with the amount of established film actors and directors readily doing work for television drama.
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Red Riding was written by Tony Grisoni who has also written the big screen version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Also Ridley Scott is rumoured to be the Director for the American film remake of Red Riding. This shows how this British high end drama is capable of attracting people who are established within film. Two further notable examples of this include Matrix star Laurence Fishburne starring in CSI: Las Vegas and Director Quentin Tarrantino also directing episodes of the show.

Tarrantino even used a quote from Kill Bill: Volume 2 in CSI: Grave Danger Volume 1 "Normally you'd be 100% right, but this time you're 100% wrong.“   This shows how there is now no longer the same sense of television drama being a step down from film, and also is a good reason to show a clip from Tarrantino ’s episode.


 * America** **vs. Britain**

Star of The Wire Dominic West has said in an interview with BBC Radio 4 that Britain does ‘costume drama brilliantly’ but there is a ‘lack of high end drama’

America does indeed produce high end television drama in abundance, but it is somewhat difficult to try and think of more than a handful of British ones that are comparable. This has been discussed as being due to the BBC’s ‘monopoly on drama’ and ITV’s fall in advertising revenue.