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1 Filmized Productions

Alot of modern British TV productions uses the filmizing process, as British television shows (unlike their American counterparts) frequently aren't afforded a budget that will run to shooting on actual 35mm. Productions that have been filmized include:

Red Dwarf VII

Red Dwarf Remastered

Casualty

The League of Gentlemen

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2 Limitations

Footage that has been shot with the knowledge that it will subsequently filmized is usually shot in a very different way, with film-style lightingLighting refers to the devices or techniques used for illumination, usually referring to artificial light sources such as lamps or flashlights. Natural indoor lighting is by windows and skylights. Artificial indoor lighting is by means of lamps, today usu and framing. Regardless, there have been several attempts to process ordinary videotape to look like film, usually with little success. Notable examples include Red Dwarf Remastered - digitally remastered versions of the first three series of Red Dwarf. As well as being filmized, the episodes had been cropped to widescreenA widescreen image is a film image with a greater aspect ratio than the ordinary 35 millimeter frame. The aspect ratio of a standard 35 millimeter frame is around 1. 37:1, although cameramen may use only the part of the frame which will be visible on a te and had all their special effects remade. It was released on VHSThe Video Home System better known by its acronym VHS is the recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC and launched in 1976. It became a standard format for consumer recording and viewing in the 1980s after compe in the mid- 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn and was panned by critics and fans alike.

BBC hospital drama-soap Casualty also flirted briefly with the filmizing process in the mid- 1990s, but it was quickly dropped after viewer complaints that the show "looked wrong".

Filmizing success stories include The League of Gentlemen and The Office, both of which can fool most people into believing they were shot on film.