rainyeveryday: just-sort-of-happened: mid0nz: just-sort-of-happened: One of the ways that Sherlock d
rainyeveryday:just-sort-of-happened:mid0nz:just-sort-of-happened:One of the ways that Sherlock deduces that David still has romantic feelings for Mary is that in all his Facebook pictures of John and Mary, John is, ‘always partly or entirely excluded’. This shows that he wants John, ‘out of the picture’, so to speak.Then we see director Colm McCarthy’s approach to framing his shots during the best man speech. During Sherlock’s speech, Mary is, ‘always partly or entirely excluded’, in any shot that also includes Sherlock. Janine, a character we’ve only just met, and of much less importance to the proceedings, seems to have plenty of room to fit in shots that exclude Mary.If excluding half of a couple is a sign that someone wants them to not be a couple, then, here, the show is explicitly telling us that John and Mary are not the right couple. The compositions escalate from merely cutting Mary out to having Sherlock actually physically block her from the audience’s view. We are meant to not see John in relation to Mary but Sherlock. It’s always Sherlock.(Thank you to obliquely-related for their comment that reminded me to write about this.)Colm McCarthy didn’t frame the shots. That would be the camera operator/DP. All together now… :-)Well, yes, the camera operator (or possibly the DP) is the one who literally frames the shots. But what I’m talking about, here, is the creative decision to reference an earlier part of the text with the framing.It’s interesting that you are making this distinction because my first instinct was to refer to even higher up the chain of command, directly to Moftiss/Moftisson, but I chose to give a nod to the director, instead (possibly creating this confusion.)If the decision to put Mary out of frame, or partially in it, does come from the writing then it comes directly from Moftiss/Moftisson, then to the director, then to the DP, then to camera operator. So while I know who literally executes a shot on a tv show, when I refer to someone, ‘framing’, things I mean at the highest level of creative decision-making. Which I think lies higher up the chain of command than Colm McCarthy, not lower. Just fyi….there are always two scripts. The first is the original screenplay. The second, the most important one, the one, we as public rarely see, is the production script, the one with all the camera directions, set details, etc. The scene framing, candle angles, lighting choices, etc, are ALL predetermined, planned, and are deliberate choices made by the dop, director, and writer(s) of the story. This was written. They knew exactly what they were doing. Johnlock is real.What they were doing was queerbaiting.#norbury -- source link
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