Hey everyone!
I'm working on the Sherlock video right now, specifically the beginning where it shows pictures of "cliche" or typical portrayals of Holmes, then transitions to the BBC Sherlock logo/information as the theme fades in. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how the text after the pictures should be worded. You know how we discussed having the cliche pictures followed by something like "This is not what you think it is"? How should I word that part? "This is not like previous portrayals"?
I currently have the text set as "This may not be what you expected," but I can easily change it if anyone has a better way to word it.
Also: remember when Dr. Battista suggested we put music over some of the speaking parts? I decided to try that with the introduction (where everyone is explaining how they imagine Sherlock Holmes). I put a track from the classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes music in the background on a very low level. This is the track I put in the background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFZHLr5pxA8
I've uploaded just the introduction to tinypic, so if you have the time, please watch it and let me know if you want anything changed/edited/added/etc. Here is the link to the video (hopefully it works):
http://tinypic.com/r/4sxxly/5
Again, any comments on it would be appreciated, since I'm a beginner with things like this. I wanted to show it to everyone in case there's any disagreement on certain parts.
Thanks!
Saturday, April 21, 2012
So how is this?
"[(CNN)--The cardinal rule of a criminal detection was carved in stone more than a century ago.] It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence,..It biases the judgement." -Sherlock Holmes
In the BBC Television series "Sherlock," Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Sherlock Holmes while Martin Freeman plays Dr. John Watson, an Afghanistan war veteran. Throughout the pilot episode, "A Study in Pink," director Paul McGuigan gives a modern twist to a classic novel, A Study in Scarlett, originally written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. By modernizing the novel into a television series,screen writer Steven Moff creates a drama that introduces new themes and characters who the audience sees as easier to relate to the show back to the original "Sherlock."
It is our belief that this particular episode fully exemplifies the cultural ideas normally unable to be communicated in a Victorian London time period. In Sherlock, not only are people of all backgrounds able to relate in one way or another, but also with this acception of cultural change, comes a greater understanding of the characters thus allowing the viewers a better insight of the "Sherlock world."
***The underline bolded sounds awkward to me so any ideas? Feel free to throw in ideas about any of it.
"[(CNN)--The cardinal rule of a criminal detection was carved in stone more than a century ago.] It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence,..It biases the judgement." -Sherlock Holmes
In the BBC Television series "Sherlock," Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Sherlock Holmes while Martin Freeman plays Dr. John Watson, an Afghanistan war veteran. Throughout the pilot episode, "A Study in Pink," director Paul McGuigan gives a modern twist to a classic novel, A Study in Scarlett, originally written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. By modernizing the novel into a television series,screen writer Steven Moff creates a drama that introduces new themes and characters who the audience sees as easier to relate to the show back to the original "Sherlock."
It is our belief that this particular episode fully exemplifies the cultural ideas normally unable to be communicated in a Victorian London time period. In Sherlock, not only are people of all backgrounds able to relate in one way or another, but also with this acception of cultural change, comes a greater understanding of the characters thus allowing the viewers a better insight of the "Sherlock world."
***The underline bolded sounds awkward to me so any ideas? Feel free to throw in ideas about any of it.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Sooooo I forgot to post this last night. But.
Outline.
Outline.
- Quote
- What do you think of when you think of Sherlock Holmes?
- Response
- Intro - "Vital stats" about BBC series
- Introduction of premise and theses
- Responses
- Brief analysis of direction/design/performance
- Comparison as an adaptation
- How do you modernize A Study in Scarlet?
- Further analysis of elements
- Texting
- Modern technology
- Crime scene analysis
- On-screen text
- Restaurant
- Modern themes
- Chase
- Comparison with Robert Downey Junior Film
- Wrap-up
- Sum-up show and review
- Reiterate what is done well and what needs work
- Conclusive statement
- Outtro
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Hey y'all :)
So, I really like the idea of putting music in the video. If anyone has ideas, please bring it to our meeting on Thursday at 9:30am in the Library. Like I said after our meeting today, if we can finish the majority of editing and everything by Thursday, then we can do a last, final touch up on Monday.
We also talked about adding in more discussion about the characters themselves. Perhaps before we do this, we should review the clips and pieces we already have, just so we don't have to worry to much about editing out and having to worry about what to cut and what to keep.
Leilani and Allie- if y'all need help with the editing please let me know and I will try my best to help out.
Kayela- if we can get the introduction written/typed on Tuesday, that will be great. Please bring any thoughts to the meeting.
Have a good night girls!
So, I really like the idea of putting music in the video. If anyone has ideas, please bring it to our meeting on Thursday at 9:30am in the Library. Like I said after our meeting today, if we can finish the majority of editing and everything by Thursday, then we can do a last, final touch up on Monday.
We also talked about adding in more discussion about the characters themselves. Perhaps before we do this, we should review the clips and pieces we already have, just so we don't have to worry to much about editing out and having to worry about what to cut and what to keep.
Leilani and Allie- if y'all need help with the editing please let me know and I will try my best to help out.
Kayela- if we can get the introduction written/typed on Tuesday, that will be great. Please bring any thoughts to the meeting.
Have a good night girls!
Monday, April 16, 2012
It is me that has the camera, and if it would be easier I can let you borrow the camera so that you can go ahead and do your thing with all the clips and everything. Or you can just let me know and i will try and download it all onto the computer and sent it to you via emai, just let me know what works best for you.
I think the music is a good idea especially since it sounded so good in our audio tweets, especially if we use it as an undertone type thing during our blurbs.
But I really think we should get together a couple times this week because I really want to ahead and get this finished and not have to stress about it last minute. Plus, if we do get this finished early we can have more time to tweak it and make it awesome! Because I don't know bout y'all but I could really use a really good grade on this to boost my grade up!
See you tomorrow!
I think the music is a good idea especially since it sounded so good in our audio tweets, especially if we use it as an undertone type thing during our blurbs.
But I really think we should get together a couple times this week because I really want to ahead and get this finished and not have to stress about it last minute. Plus, if we do get this finished early we can have more time to tweak it and make it awesome! Because I don't know bout y'all but I could really use a really good grade on this to boost my grade up!
See you tomorrow!
Hey everyone.
I have written down that we have a meeting with Dr. Rozelle tomorrow at 9:50 AM. I'll see you all there!
A little update: I have all the clips (cell phone scene, analysis of the woman, restaurant conversation, chase scene) cut into separate .avi files (here's a screenshot of what I mean). I still have the original episode on file if any other scenes need to be taken out, and I can further cut down the scenes I have if needed.
I can't remember if it was Kayela or Katie who owned the camera--but, is there any way you could send me all the video files you have on that camera? You could transfer the files to your computer then send them to me via email or something, or you could put them all on a flash drive and give them to me. Either way, once I get those files I can edit them in whatever way you want me to edit them (i.e. cutting out the laughing parts). Then I can maybe tinker around with the placement of them once we have the introduction, ending, voiceovers, etc.
Also, what Dr. Battista said at the meeting about using music...that might not be a bad idea. I found the music that plays during the taxi chase scene (though I'm sure Leilani already has it)...maybe we could put that in the background turned down or something? I've got the .mp3 of it, so maybe we could utilize it somehow. I found the theme music too, so we could possibly play that in the beginning or something. I'm being really vague about this, I know, but...just throwing some ideas out, haha.
I think that's about it. See you all tomorrow!
I have written down that we have a meeting with Dr. Rozelle tomorrow at 9:50 AM. I'll see you all there!
A little update: I have all the clips (cell phone scene, analysis of the woman, restaurant conversation, chase scene) cut into separate .avi files (here's a screenshot of what I mean). I still have the original episode on file if any other scenes need to be taken out, and I can further cut down the scenes I have if needed.
I can't remember if it was Kayela or Katie who owned the camera--but, is there any way you could send me all the video files you have on that camera? You could transfer the files to your computer then send them to me via email or something, or you could put them all on a flash drive and give them to me. Either way, once I get those files I can edit them in whatever way you want me to edit them (i.e. cutting out the laughing parts). Then I can maybe tinker around with the placement of them once we have the introduction, ending, voiceovers, etc.
Also, what Dr. Battista said at the meeting about using music...that might not be a bad idea. I found the music that plays during the taxi chase scene (though I'm sure Leilani already has it)...maybe we could put that in the background turned down or something? I've got the .mp3 of it, so maybe we could utilize it somehow. I found the theme music too, so we could possibly play that in the beginning or something. I'm being really vague about this, I know, but...just throwing some ideas out, haha.
I think that's about it. See you all tomorrow!
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