BBC “Sherlock Holmes”

[Bret Hampton]

There was a nice article about Sherlock in Digital Video magazine maybe a year or so ago.

It mentioned it was shot with two Arri Alexas most of the time, but they also used DSLRS for certain shots.Most interestingly, they would take a series of still pics at different focal lengths, then stitch them together for a staccato kind of zoom that was very effective dramatically.

They also talked about how they created the text/numeric images when Sherlock is thinking.

[Bill Davis]

[Dave Gage] “My only disappoint with this series is that they can’t seem to get everyone’s schedule to sync up to make Season 4.”

Perhaps in part because Mr. Cumberbach is still at work on The Imitation Game?

And while you’ll find few bigger fans of the Sherlock Holmes canon then me (HUGE Jeremy Brett fan) I’m happy to forgo a season of what is essentially a wonderful entertainment to let him do Alan Turings story.

Holmes is a wonderful pleasure.

Turing is important.

Period.

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[Dave Gage]

[Bill Davis] “Perhaps in part because Mr. Cumberbach is still at work on The Imitation Game?”

Good to know. I’ll pass this on to my wife. She’s the one who finds all the interesting stuff on NetFlix (we finally dumped cable a few months ago). I only stumbled across SH because she was watching it one night. I recognized Dr. Watson from “The Hobbit”, but had never seen Benedict before this series.

Thanks,
Dave

[Timothy Auld]

Saw Derek Jacoby – long before he was Sir Derek – in a play about Turings’ life called “Breaking the Code.” What an astonishingly sad and frightening story.

Tim