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MDIA 1020: CHARACTER COLOR TIMELINE-Sherlock Series 3

  • 1-1

    1-1
    Flashback Scene. Use of Blue Hue to represent a distance from the present and a overtone of sadness.
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    3x1 The Empty Hearse

  • 1-2

    1-2
    Same scene as 1-1. Same use of cool colors to create a distance from present and an tone of sadness.
  • 1-3

    1-3
    New setting. Same cooler tone but not as severe as the flashback.
  • 1-4

    1-4
    Wide shot of Scene 1-3. Use of black signifies morning but the pairing with gray distills the feeling to signify that time has greatly passed.
  • 1-5

    1-5
    Dark lighting to signify dread, but at the same time the light focused on Sherlock represents a temperance and ability to overcome.
  • 1-6

    1-6
    Dark lighting to hide visage but lighting in background to illuminate features.
  • 1-7

    1-7
    Cool hues to express despair is face.
  • 1-8

    1-8
    Dark background behind white to illistrate a sense of re-establishment.
  • 1-9

    1-9
    Same light on dark as 1-8 to reestablish a clean feeling in the character. Shadows hid features of the face to add mystic.
  • 1-10

    1-10
    Light on face to highlight lines on the face.
  • 1-11

    1-11
    Full reveal. Light painting in backgroud to give an illusion of gradure for the character in foreground.
  • 1-12

    1-12
    Clear reveal of character and light background to give a sense of being in public.
  • 1-13

    1-13
    Darker values of warmer hues to represent intamace.
  • 1-14

    1-14
    Using light as a means to attract the character's focus from noticing the other character in the background.
  • 1-15

    1-15
    Same uses of hue, to create intamace but for a different set of charcters.
  • 1-16

    1-16
    Use of light to create a focus for the audience of the abstact idea of tension.
  • 1-17

    1-17
    Highlighted faces to show strugle for characters.
  • 1-18

    1-18
    Use of red table cloth to represent hostility. Also the use of green and yellow in the background to represent a desire for clam.
  • 1-19

    1-19
    Light in background to emphasize the natural darkness adding a sense of lonliness to the scene.
  • 1-20

    1-20
    Light on face to emphasize the reveal. Darkness in background to create a sense of coming from the unknown.
  • 1-21

    1-21
    White on face to simplilize change or rebirth, passing.
  • 1-22

    1-22
    Use of earthly hues to create a "homely" or "return to home" sense to the character.
  • 1-23

    1-23
    Cooler hues to symbolize the mondain of life. Light on the hand to focus audience on slight actions.
  • 1-24

    1-24
    Green hue use to add a sense of destain to the character.
  • 1-25

    1-25
    Use of neon blue to add sense of wonder and mystery to the setting.
  • 1-26

    1-26
    Again use of earthly hues to create a sense of at home.
  • 1-27

    1-27
    Light and shadow over face to symbolize contemplation and the idea of being deep in thought.
  • 1-28

    1-28
    Surreal lighting and effects on railings to add to the dream like state of the scene. Face a blur to again represent thought and motion.
  • 1-29

    1-29
    The black and red of the clothing are used to represent the character's emotional states at the start of the scene.
  • 1-30

    1-30
    Sense shows a dark figure on a dark bike. Expresses a sort of unspoken dread. The light signifies a clear goal or sorts for Sherlock as he rides out.
  • 1-31

    1-31
    Here Watson is completely surounded by darkness with just small traces of light to emphasize his fear and confusion.
  • 1-32

    1-32
    More elaborate shot of light emphasising the distress that Watson is currently under.
  • 1-33

    1-33
    Image of flames to increase concept of fear and impending doom.
  • 1-34

    1-34
    Light on Watson's face to show relief to the audience more clearly.
  • 1-35

    1-35
    Earthly hues uesed in pair with gentle light to give a sencse of peace.
  • 1-36

    1-36
    Saturation of Watson and Sherlock to create the idea that they are being seen through a moniter.
  • 1-37

    1-37
    Light hallway to once again give the feeling of the characters being in public. Also a sense of natural safty which clashes with the high tension that the characters were under during this scene. (They are looking for a bomb)
  • 1-38

    1-38
    A sence where Shelock is decending into a darker area, increasing the sense of looming dread.
  • 1-39

    1-39
    Scene where Watson and Sherlock have similar lighting and colr scheme which adds to a sense of unity.
  • 1-40

    1-40
    Clean white set which adds to a sense of safistication in the situation, that is that everything has been calculaed and controlled.
  • 1-41

    1-41
    Light shining down on Sherlock with red background helps emphasize the idea that he has dangerous and awe inspiring properties about himself.
  • 1-42

    1-42
    Looming figure in red gives the impression of a serious and controlling force.
  • 1-43

    1-43
    Sherlcok in a white cap symbolizes a pure being reamerging from the shadows.
  • 2-1

    2-1
    The tan suit helps give a sense of calm in Sherlock while the screen light expresses the message of him being engulfed in his work.
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    3x2 The Sign of Three

  • 2-2

    2-2
    Dim lighting adds a sense that the character is in soclusion.
  • 2-3

    2-3
    The light on the character and the suit adds a feeling of both concection and antisipation.
  • 2-4

    2-4
    High saturation on all characters increases the perseption of joy in the scene.
  • 2-5

    2-5
    The compementary colors of yellow and purple on Sherlock and the woman creates a sense of both connection and opposition.
  • 2-6

    2-6
    The light in the background makes the scene more like an interegation and adds the sense of atagonation in Sherlock towards the other character.
  • 2-7

    2-7
    The matching color scheme of Sherlock and Watson adds to their sense of comroderery
  • 2-8

    2-8
    This image shows Watson with the use of very saturated colors looking very pleased/happy.
  • 2-9

    2-9
    The black of Sherlock's suit in front of the bright yellow background adds to the idea that Sherlock is out of place in this event.
  • 2-10

    2-10
    The dark hallway and the lam issues the concept that Watson does not have the full picture of what is occuring presently.
  • 2-11

    2-11
    The lighter hues that Sherlock is in contradict with the black that envelopse Watson which helps illistrate that currently the two are on two seperate wavelengths, or mindsets.
  • 2-12

    2-12
    The dark shadows over Sherlock's face give the appearence of consumed. Such as now when he is consumed by work for the wedding and the idea that he may be all alone soon as Watson is getting married.
  • 2-13

    2-13
    Light on Watson's face helps emphasize the symphatatic nature of his expression.
  • 2-14

    2-14
    The two sections of this frame are nearly symmetrical to each other adding a sense of dual ship of Watson's and Sherlock's personalities.
  • 2-15

    2-15
    The green of the nature in the background adds a sense of peace to the current scene.
  • 2-16

    2-16
    Light glares off the beer in this frame drawing focus to it for the audience.
  • 2-17

    2-17
    The neon purple and green in this set creates a setting of excitement but is contradicted by the actions of Sherlock and Watson thereby adding to the humor of it.
  • 2-18

    2-18
    Blue light adds to blur of the frame making it more ovious the state of mind of the characters, which is drunk.
  • 2-19

    2-19
    Another scene where the frame is blurred to show how the characters are feeling both physically and mentally.
  • 2-20

    2-20
    The use of cooler mostly green hues is to show the state of health for both characters.
  • 2-21

    2-21
    This frame we see through the use of split-complementary colors that currently Sherlock is out off his comfort zone and well past the point where he can be of use.
  • 2-22

    2-22
    The clear white light adds some sense of normality and or cleanzing of the characters.
  • 2-23

    2-23
    The Courtroom used as a metaphor for Sherlok's process of thinking.
  • 2-24

    2-24
    Same courtroom but with the change in outfit we see that this is't the same thought process but a moment of realization
  • 2-25

    2-25
    Still look in Sherlock's eyes to represent a moment of doubt in his mind.
  • 2-26

    2-26
    The wording above people's heads to describe how Sherlock is thinking things through.
  • 2-27

    2-27
    Darker setting to establish that the characters are no longer with the rest of the party and now they are elsewhere.
  • 2-28

    2-28
    Two seperate groups of people seperated by Sherlock. In shades of blue are the police and the killer and in complemantary colors, the wedding guests.
  • 2-29

    2-29
    Hues in greater value to add a sense of intamacy for Watson and his new wife. Also the lighting illuminates the main couple for their moment.
  • 2-30

    2-30
    The warm colors of the flames helps romanticize the scene as Sherlock performs.
  • 3-1

    3-1
    This split frame brings up the connection and the similarities between Sherlock and Watson.
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    3x3 His Last Vow

  • 3-2

    3-2
    Morning light from the background and sweat from Watson's brow which means restless sleep.
  • 3-3

    3-3
    Watson tall and bright if front of run down building showing that he is very confident in himself.
  • 3-4

    3-4
    Bright warm light from background creating the illusion of righteousness.
  • 3-5

    3-5
    The green of the tiles is an allusion to the degregration of the building.
  • 3-6

    3-6
    Shot of Watson from the point of view of someone whose sense are being affected by drugs and thus blurry.
  • 3-7

    3-7
    The peeling of the wall is a reference to how Watson sees Sherlock as he is now in the drug den.
  • 3-8

    3-8
    The comparison between Sherlock and Billy the junkie also shows how people are seeing Sherlock currently.
  • 3-9

    3-9
    The dust on Sherlock's face adds to his appearance as a vagrant.
  • 3-10

    3-10
    Dark hue of the hallway adds to the sense of gloom between the two men.
  • 3-11

    3-11
    Light shining on Watson's face adds to the detail that he is confused and uncomfortable in the current situation.
  • 3-12

    3-12
    The split between the two characters by the chair and he individual light on both of them is signifing that they are both focussing on two different but important things.
  • 3-13

    3-13
    The display over Watson of Sherlock's traits both says that the character view them sees no interest in Watson and has a lot of information on Sherlock.
  • 3-14

    3-14
    Sherlock look straight as the other man is reflected in the mirror is a emphasise on how nerve racked that Sherlock is or at least is pretending to be by the man behind him.
  • 3-15

    3-15
    The glass walls are symbolic of how the setting is sapposed to be transparent but contradicts how it really is as a shady headquarters of a blackmailer.
  • 3-16

    3-16
    Mental image of a what-if situation in Sherlock's head with a split frame of two different scenes put together.
  • 3-17

    3-17
    A refection of Sherlock's face as a point of view.
  • 3-18

    3-18
    Image has a lot of saturation to give the appearence of being on a camera moniter.
  • 3-19

    3-19
    Mirror shot to show that Sherlock can't see the person in black but has all of his attention devoted towards them.
  • 3-20

    3-20
    Blur of the image plus saturation of hues to add to the idea that Sherlock is starting lossing control.
  • 3-21

    3-21
    Spotlight on Sherlock to show his facial behaivor as he reacts to beeing shot as well to take the viewer out of the current scene into Sherlock's mind.
  • 3-22

    3-22
    Highly saturized image of Sherlock as a horror shot of what is the worst case senario. Him on a slab.
  • 3-23

    3-23
    Reuse of the mirror the as a methaphor for Sherlock's mental process.
  • 3-24

    3-24
    Use of Blue to express the sorrowful and desperate state that Sherlock's mind is in.
  • 3-25

    3-25
    High saturation to show how tension has increassed as things are only becoming more stressful.
  • 3-26

    3-26
    Use of white light to create an allusion to heaven or a happy place.
  • 3-27

    3-27
    Yellow walls to show how Sherlock's mindis becoming corrupted with the strain.
  • 3-28

    3-28
    Blue lighting on walls to show the slowing down of Sherlock's mind and the despair of consiousness.
  • 3-29

    3-29
    The change of hues in lighting to show a change in Sherlock's state of being.
  • 3-30

    3-30
    Spotlight on Sherlock's face to show that he still remains and is still fighting for life.
  • 3-31

    3-31
    The analougous climbing up the stairs of light, that is to say that the saturated light to see his struggle for life.
  • 3-32

    3-32
    A clear basic hue of blue to reestablish reality and show the easing of stress from Watson.
  • 3-33

    3-33
    Saturation of blue to show the state of Sherlock has improved and he stable now.
  • 3-34

    3-34
    Use of purple to represent Sherlock realization and recolection of the events that have transpiered.
  • 3-35

    3-35
    Dark hues to symbolize mystery and intregue.
  • 3-36

    3-36
    Saturation and blur of a previous scene to represent a recollection of memories and realization of important information.
  • 3-37

    3-37
    Light with a lot of Value to express a dark realization, which just what happens when Watson finds out his wife is a liar and possibly a killer.
  • 3-38

    3-38
    A bight hallway with a line of white saturated light to represent the conflict that the three characters, Watson Sherlock and Mary, are in.
  • 3-39

    3-39
    The use of monochromatic colors in this setting to give a very boring aspect to the room. Which is reflected in Sherlock's expression and body language.
  • 3-40

    3-40
    The same monochromatic color but used more like a home like in this scene because of the characters expressions in the room.
  • 3-41

    3-41
    Use of red on one side and blue on the other where Sherlock and Watson stand to show how they both are emotionally handeling the situation that was revealed to them. Sherlock cool and collected while Watson is frustrated and angry,
  • 3-42

    3-42
    High use of red to show how the characters are in conflict and all in some sort of tension.
  • 3-43

    3-43
    Light aqua green in the background to represent a resolation with the Watson and his wife.
  • 3-44

    3-44
    Parallels with Sherlock and his brother to show how similar they are in fact but aslo the change in color in their clothing describes the conflict they have with their personalities.
  • 3-45

    3-45
    The scene has the two characters in white an black clothing and a red table cloth inbetween the two of them to represent Sherlock and the other man in a battle against "good and evil."
  • 3-46

    3-46
    Open window that contradict with how closed off each character is being to keep themselves safe in this hostile enviorment.
  • 3-47

    3-47
    Use of light as a means of reveal and the shadow of Sherlock and Watson the refelect how this revealation is in fact detremental to their plan and well-being.
  • 3-48

    3-48
    Light forcusing on darkness to show an unwinnable and impending situation.
  • 3-49

    3-49
    Again the use of green for a moment of peace for Watson and Sherlock, as they say goodbye.