New Vid: Sherlock BBC - Anomie

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Comments

[legoline]

This is another fantastic video. Great choice of song, and the vid is so atmospheric. I'm delighted that you're vidding Sherlock :D

[charmax]

Thanks! I don't know if I'll vid Sherlock again but it was certainly fun using all that beautifully shot footage.

[niannarashi]

this is awesome!!

lovelovelove the song choice

[charmax]

Thank you!

[sol_se]

Oooh, I love this!!

[charmax]

Yay! And double yay for the rec.

[przed]

You have no idea how excited I was when I saw you vidded Sherlock. And I wasn't disappointed. This is brilliant. Perfect song choice, and fantastic editing. This is going straight into my all time favourites file.

[charmax]

Wow, what a lovely thing to say. I'm so happy you rate it so highly.

[nemo_r]

I really love this. I love all the linkages there are in it. The way you've highlighted people being alone, by comparing them with each other. The high flyers in their shiny glass prisons and the vagrants and homeless in the old brick tunnels and dark streets, the normal people running through rainy streets and the rich business man dying in an abandoned office building.

With all the setting shots and intro credits you've used, it really brings out London as a character in it's own right. Which I really think it is. Sherlock relies on London being this massive, enigmatic bustling city, so soulless and soulful and full of contradictions.

And then there's the way Sherlock and Watson navigate it slipping in and out of other people's worlds, but never really of anything except their own peculiar dynamic

[charmax]

The concept for this vid really needed that sense that everyone is isolated. I loved juxtaposing the clips of the haves and have-nots to highlight this. It is particularly interesting that the wealthier characters appear in daylight and the more you work down the pecking order the darker it gets. Light is flooding into the offices and the fancy apartments and the light decreases right down to the barely visible homeless people living in tunnels. It is as if light is a luxury, which I guess in the nineteenth century London of the original stories it would’ve been. It also helps set up a love/hate relationship with London, the faceless metropolis on the one hand and the vibrant exciting city on the other