Contextual write up

Sherlock

There are many qualities starting from mise en scene and from the technical point of view first of I must talk about the TV series itself Sherlock very popular TV series based in the UK more specifically in London. The main character from the TV series is a man named Sherlock holmes and his trusty companion James Watson they both lived together at 221 Baker Street both work together to investigate crimes such as murder theft and missing items.

 

Costumes in the TV series multiple different looks such as Sherlock Holmes’s outfit is normally a combination of the suit trenchcoat routes and deerstalker hat but then when compare James Watson’s outfit it is more casual normally wears a shirt and leather jacket and jeans and boots. The interesting thing about Sherlock TV series is that it’s the only Sherlock Holmes inspired series that is set in the modern day.

 

The make up in the series is all very natural any main clear signs of make up is when either they get scratched bruised. Other parts of make up within the TV series is mainly even towards dead bodies blood and silly things such as James Watson’s moustache.

 

The movement within the series very fluid or very still it is very fluid scenes such as when James Watson and Sherlock Holmes have their arms handcuffed together and running through the streets. The scenes are very fluid is when Sherlock Holmes was explaining how he faked his own death. Other scenes that are more still more often when Sherlock Holmes playing his violin only a very still shot or it’s more than zoom, very specific angle of the scene that is very still also slightly fluid twin James Watson and Sherlock Holmes first meet each other to see Sherlock flogging a dead body to see if it was bruised man was killed in another way in the same scene James Watson comes into the room somewhat more still shot as he has a limp and a walking stick.

 

The lighting within the TV series is all very natural or it would appear so they try to make you look natural lighting such as positioning of where the lights are room Street were a warehouse see the lights on natural some probably are not supported stage lights make them look like natural lights. Other trickery that they do with lights the specifically sometimes put lighting certain object or person to make you look more and be aware of the surroundings other lighting that is used as such as when Sherlock Holmes users his mind Palace investigate the situation when he does this the lighting comes slightly dimmer and the lighting becomes more intense with the writing what he’s thinking.

 

The colouring in the TV series is normally a mixture of greys whites and Blacks you sometimes get a hint very extreme lighting such as when they are drunk and clubbing is very blurry as a very intense lighting within the blurriness also colouring it on some very interesting ways of showing stuff such as women are trying to investigate the death of a woman dressed in pink the investigation through course of the episode episode is very tricky to understand thing you do understand by the end of it when they find the suitcase that Sherlock Holmes was looking for very obviously the dead woman’s suitcase because it is as bright as her pink outfit you know immediately they are connected.