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Sherlock

Textual Investigation of

Name: Ling Man, Lai (MIMI)

Centre number: 51415

ContentsSection 1Section 2Section 3Section 4Section 5Section 6Section 7Section 8Section 9

Section 10

IntroductionTextual Analysis

Vladimir Prop and CharactersTodorov and Narrative

SettingIconography and Props

IdeologyTarget audience

Marketing and PromotionExplore other examples

Name:Lingman LaiCentre number: 51415

Introduction

SECTION 1Name:Lingman LaiCentre number: 51415

INTRODUCE OF ‘SHERLOCK ’ SHERLOCK is a British television crime drama. It change from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories. It has three seasons, every season have 3 parts of it. Steven Moffatt and Mark Gaits created this television drama, It stars Benedict Cumber batch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. The director of this television drama is Paul McGeehan and Euros Lyn, and the language of it is English. This television drama is made from Harts wood Films, Harts wood Films produced the series for the BBC and co-produced it with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series on PBS. The first season broadcast in 2010, the second season broadcast in 2012 and May of 2012, Sherlock broadcast in American. The third season broadcast in 2014, after it broadcast, Sherlock is the most watched drama series, also Sherlock has been sold to over 200 territories. All of the series have been released on DVD and Blu-ray, also it tie-in editions of selected original Conan Doyle stories and original soundtrack composed by David Arnold and Michael Price. And this television drama have been got many prize, for example: BAFTAS, Emmis and Golden globe. When January of 2014, the company of them designed a mobile phone games about it. Many people like it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series)


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Genre conventions in

TV Crime Dramas.

A crime takes place

Hero goes on a quest to find the

villain/solve the crime.

Narrative includes a resolution the crime is solved.

city

Setting

Police

cars

Weapons gunsrig

ht time

Abandoned

buildingPolice

station

Iconography

Victim/

body

Forensics

equipment

Clue for

crime

Key prop

Lighting dark

shadows

SoundSet a

pace

Signal a

choseBuild tension

Set mood

serious

costume

coats

Police detectives

-suit uniformNormal

clothing (dark serious

clothing)

camera

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Person who solves

uniformdetecti

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victim

princess

suspect

sidekick

villain

Narrative events

crime

Villain is

captured

Suspect question

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Mind Map

Normal everyday life

Genre conventions for Crime TV Dramas

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The genre conventions in ‘Sherlock’

Setting It always take place in a well-known city/capital.(Seen as a dangerous place.In Sherlock, it is in capital city of UK, which is London, in 221B Baker Street. Because usually the capital city is has high crime rate, and most people know where it is.

Characters There is always a person who is the detective in the film is really clever can solve nearly all the crimes. In Sherlock, this person is Sherlock. There also have a person who is helping the main characters to solve those crimes and this person in Sherlock called ‘Watson’.

Costume In this type of films, character always wear dark colour, like: black. In Sherlock, you can see Sherlock always wear long black coat and scarf. IconographyIn this type of films, always have some guns, polices,

police cars, newspaper and blood as well. In Sherlock, there have these things in that film. Name:Lingman Lai


Camera angle There have lots of extreme close-up and close-up, and the camera usually follows the character who is solving the crime, which is Sherlock in Sherlock. You can see the characters and the murderer’s face clearly.And when Sherlock is thinking, you can see all the movement on him.

Light The light always very dark in these type of films, just have several light on, and even sometimes the place without light. In Sherlock, the place that cabbie took Sherlock, there was really dark, and the flat in London, 221B Barker street, that room always dark as well.

Music In these type of films, when it has some important things happen, the climax, or someone dead, it will have the mood music in the background. For example, when someone dead in Sherlock, there are some music make people very scare.

Narrative In these types of films, usually the narrative have to solve the crime, at the end of the series the crime will solve, and the murderer usually is punished. In Sherlock, Sherlock need to find out the murder, at the end of it, Sherlock found out the murderer who is ‘Moriarty’, and keep audience want to watch next section.


SECTION 2

Textual Analysis


No.1Name:Lingman LaiCentre number: 51415

Setting: This picture is took place in a college, it is a science class room. It

got many big windows behind them, so, someone can see what is happening inside. That can help someone else to save him. And, they took place in college, because when the evening, no one will be there, the murderer can hide himself really well and kill people easily, the police hard to find out where is it.

Lighting: That was really dark at there, just several light on in the middle

and dark around them. That can make people feeling dangerous, and maybe some bad thing will happen next. So dark display this is horrible and dangerous.

Characters: There was just two persons, who are Sherlock and the

murderer the cabbie. That can make people feel afraid of what will happen next and worry about the Sherlock, because that is one to one, no one can help Sherlock, that is a fair fight.


Costume: Sherlock wear what he always wear, the long black coat and black scarf,

that can make him look very strong and powerful. The murderer the cabbie wears very plain, just like a normal person, like a taxi driver, it can help the murderer hide himself very well, police will really hard to find him.

Camerawork: This is full view. So we can see all the view of this place. Then audiences can see what happening and felling horrible. And this is a long shot, we can see the whole of the scene clearly, then we can know that is the environment look like.

Sound: There are some mood music that can only be heard by audience. It can make people feeling dangerous and scared. And at that school, we cannot hear about any city sound, very quiet up there, that’s display do not have any person there, very far from the centre of city, very out-of-the-way, it can make people feeling very dangerous scared and nervous.


No.2Name:Lingman LaiCentre number: 51415

Setting: It is in an old hotel, do not have any people live there. Crimes always happened in those places which will be hard for detective to find out and usually don’t have any person up there. So it can make people feeling very horrible, those place look dangerous.

Lighting: The light was really dark up there. Just have one light on, then we can see what they are doing, and Sherlock can check that woman and find some evidence. The dark lighting can make people feeling dangerous, and it can tell people there are bad things happening, like someone dead.

Character: Sherlock wants to get some information and evidences from that woman, Sherlock very careful, have strong observation, people will think he is very good and smart. And there is a person stand there who is a police, he stay with Sherlock whole time, people will think this event very important for them and very serious. Name:Lingman Lai


Costume: Other people wear special blue cloth, but Sherlock doesn’t, he wear what he always wear, the black long coat. So he is very special and different from others and also shows that he doesn’t really want to follow the rule. The woman wear a pink coat, it link to the topic, cause the name of the film is called ‘Study in pink.’

Camerawork: This is low-angle shot. It can make the people look strong and powerful, also we can see their face clearly. So it can make people feeling Sherlock is a very good and smart detective, he has this ability to solve this crime and find out who is the murderer.

Sound: There are some mood music there, make people feeling seriously, cause this part was very important, Sherlock is searching the evidences and information from that woman, and no one is talking up there, because everyone was very serious for this event. Name:Lingman Lai


SECTION 3

Vladimir Propp and Characters


Vladimir Propp was born on April 17, 1895 to a German family, and he died on August 22, 1970 (aged 75). He attended St. Petersburg University (1913–1918) majoring in Russian and German philology. When he graduation he taught Russian and German at a secondary school, then he became a college teacher of German. Propp’s theory was based on folk tales and legends. He analysed the basic plot components of Russian folktales to identify their simplest narrative elements in order, he found all of them were quite similar about these problems and type of character. So, his theory identified 7 about seven character roles and 31 narrative functions common in folk tales. Then he summarize these common rules to other narrative structures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp

Background information about Vladimir Propp




1.The hero [winner, reacts to the donor, weds the princess, solve the crime. And always be main character, the leader of the whole story. The person who will save others and makes plot happen.] 2.The villain [ killer or murderer, usually creates the narrative disruption, always oppose to the hero.] 3.The donor [who helps the hero by giving him some magic tool, information or something else, which helps in resolution of the narrative, work out the fact and win.] 4.The helper [someone helps the hero in the quest, give the hero some ideas and advices to help the hero solve the crime. ] 5.The princess [ who is reward for the hero, and always is victim, so hero wants to save that person.] 6.The false hero [who is a good person but disagree with hero, let hero go away from the event.] 7.The dispatcher [someone ask hero to help them and to start solving the crime, helps the hero in the task of go back to equilibrium.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_theory_(media)

Vladimir Propp’s character theory


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_theory_(media)

The hero- Sherlock (He is a main character and he is a genius. He is very smart and clever detective, he finds out the murderer in Sherlock.)

The villain- Moriarty (He asked someone who is cabbie Phil Davis to help him use pill to kill other people, then he will pay him money. So he is very ferocious.)

The donor- Mrs. Hudson (She is landlord, she gives the house to them to live and let them know each other as well.)

The helper- Watson (He helps Sherlock to work out the murderer and give him some ideas, finally he also save Sherlock as well.)

The princess- All the victims (Like the woman with pink coat, she was dead and Sherlock find some evidence from her, and those evidence help Sherlock to find out the murderer.

The false hero- Anderson (He is one of the police, and he disagree ask Sherlock to help theme solve this crime, he is the only one disagree about it.

The dispatcher- Inspector Lestrade (He is one of the police, he finds Sherlock and ask him to help them solve this crime, so Sherlock find out the murderer of this event.)

Different characters in ‘Sherlock’


How the characters Affect expressionDisruption: The cabbie and Moriarty The cabbie: He used some harmful pills to kill many people, and the pills was provided by Moriarty. This is disruption of this story, police cannot find out who is the murderer, so they asked Sherlock to help them work out it, and the murderer also want to kill Sherlock as well. Moriarty: He is the other disruption. He ask the cabbie to help him kill other people use the pills and pay them money. And he tell the cabbie, if he can kill more people, then his children can get more money.Lead quests: Sherlock and Watson Sherlock: Sherlock agree the police Inspector Lestrade to help them solve this crime. He got some evidences and information and use them to try find out the murderer. This is beginning of the quests. Watson: He is helper in Sherlock, and he is Sherlock’s housemate. He lead to the quests and agree Sherlock to help him solve this crime. Harm others: The Cabbie, Watson and Sherlock Cabbie: The cabbie harms many people, he gave them those harmful pills and threat them to eat them. So, he kill three or five people. Watson: Watson shot the cabbie cause he want to save Sherlock. He shots Sherlock because he want to stop Sherlock take the pills. Although he save Sherlock, but he also illegal to shot others.


Sherlock: He also harms other as well. He stepped on the cabbie’s shoulderWhere is Watson shot, and let cabbie tell him whether that is real pills andall the truth about this crime. Like who is the supplier

Save others: Watson and Sherlock Watson: He saves Sherlock by shot the cabbie, for stopping Sherlock to take the pills. Maybe that pills is the real one, if it is, Sherlock will dead, so Watson save Sherlock. Sherlock: He catches the murderer and find out all the truth about this crime by using all the evidence and information. If he has not worked out who is the murderer, then they will kill more people. So he saves others.


The main characters in SherlockSherlock (The hero)

Sherlock was very thin and tall, he has two long legs. He also got a black curly hair

Sherlock was very busy, he need to solve many crimes and think a lot, so he doesn’t have many time to eat and have a rest, so he is very thin.

Sherlock always wear that long black coat and put his collar up, he also wear with his scarf and gloves when he go out. He never wear that blue cloth even someone else all wear it. And he also never wear tie as well.

This type of dress up is special and suitable with this character, so when the audience seeing this type of wearing, maybe they will think of Sherlock. His wearing was inform, cause he never wear tie, he use scarf instead of it. And he never wear that blue cloth as well, he is different from others and doesn’t follow the rules.

Sherlock has very good and amazing memory.

He can remember the map about London. So, if in London, Sherlock can know anywhere, so when Sherlock ask cabbie ‘where is it’, the cabbie doesn’t answer him, cause he knows Sherlock certainly know.


Sherlock talks very fast and he always say the answer unclearly.

When he infer something, his though always faster than others, so he talk very faster as well. And he cannot understand why people cannot think about it and just want the final answer, so he always give them a point, then let them to think and he will prove it by himself. For example, he just shout out a word, which is ‘pink’ to someone else, say nothing about what that mean and what that about.

He always doesn’t smile, usually serious, he also doesn’t have any facial expressions.

He has poor facial expressions on his face, always show his serious face. He doesn’t know about how to chat with others and how to be friends with others, but he doesn’t care about this and doesn’t care about what others thinking either. So we can see his mood on his face very often. And I think he is a little bit antihuman and antisocial.

When he is thinking, he doesn’t like anyone else talk. He also will put two hands together under his lower jaw. And he thinks nicotine patch can help he to think.

If you are talking when he is thinking, he will stop you, cause he cannot focus on that if any noise around him. I think this is his feather as well.


When he is walking, he will wear his gloves and put hands in his pocket.

He always walk fast and average speed. Don’t have any other movement, like jump or something else. This gestures will make people feeling his is a very good detective and his has strong powerful. Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock is the main character in Sherlock, he is a hero and he is a wonderful detective as well. He saves many people many people by find out the murderer and solves many crimes as well. Cause he is very busy and need to think a lot, so he doesn’t have too much time to eat and have a rest, so he is very tall and thin. He has two long legs and black curly hair. He is a very serious person, he always serious and doesn’t smile a lot, he has a poor facial expression. He feeling hard to communicate with someone else, and he doesn’t mind everyone’s thinking, so we can see his mood on his face. I think he is a little bit antisocial and antihuman. He got an amazing memory, he can remember the map about London, nobody can fool him about the place in London.He always wear a black long coat with his scarf and gloves. He never wear that blue cloth even all the peoplewear it, he is different from others and doesn’t follow the rules. He talks very fast, cause his thought faster than normal people. He always doesn’t tell people the answer clearly, he always tell them a key word then let them to think about it, cause he doesn’t understand why people just want the final answer, he thinks they needto think about it. When he is think about something, he doesn’t like someone else talk, cause he doesn’t want someone else to noise him, he cannot focus on it if have any noise around him. He like to put his handstogether and put under his lower jaw. He also think nicotine patch can help him to think. I think this is his detective’s gestures. When he is walking, he likes put his hands in his pocket and walk a little bit fast.


Watson (The helper) He is not very tall, shorter than Sherlock. He has a short a little bit like gold hair. He always wear a black short coat, but he doesn’t wear scarf and gloves. He also wear tie as well.

His appearance and his wearing are very different to Sherlock. His wearing is very plain more like normal person, doesn’t like a detective. This type of wearing is his style, so if people see this type of wearing, they will think about Watson.

He is not like that serious, his facial expressions is not very poor, and sometimes we can see a little smile on his face. He is very polite and normal.

He is a doctor in army before, so when he talking or doing something, you can see he is a polite and good person, he always say sorry to someone else because of Sherlock. He never think he is a very smart and brave person, he just a normal person.

He need to have crutch with him, but when he met Sherlock, sometimes he walk without crutch.

He had a shot in war before, but that shot doesn’t really matter, he still can walk very well. But in his mind, he must use crutch to walk. So you can see a part of Sherlock, which is they are following the cabbie(killer), Watson is running and without the crutch, so actually he can walk. And he always follow Sherlock and help him, even save him.


John Watson Watson is the second main character in Sherlock. He is the helper,who is helping Sherlock and give him some ideas to work out the murderer and solve this crime. He is Sherlock’s housemate, and he is very different to Sherlock. He is not very tall, shorter than Sherlock. He got a short, colour like gold hair. He is not like that serious and not very poor facial expression. Sometimes we can see some mood on his face, like when Sherlock say something he doesn’t believe and feeling confuse, he will have some facial expression on his face. His wearing style is wearing a short black coat and tie. He doesn’t wear gloves or scarf like Sherlock. His wearing style doesn’t like a detective, just like a normal person. Actually he is a doctor in army before, he had a shot on his leg, but it doesn’t really matter, he still can walk very well. For example, when he is following the cabbie, he is running with Sherlock and without the crutch, but in his mind, he must carry the crutch when he is walking. He is a very good andpolite person. He always says sorry to someone because of Sherlock, so he is much more polite than Sherlock. And he is a very good friend with Sherlock. He always follows Sherlock, although he is not as clever as Sherlock, but he always use his knowledge to help Sherlock thinking about the crime and give him some ideas. At end of the Sherlock, Watson even saved Sherlock. He use the information and evidences to find out where is Sherlock, then he wants to stop Sherlock to take the pills, so he shot the cabbie and save him. I think he knows that is very dangerous to go to find Sherlock, but Watson still go there and save him, so I think Watson is a chivalrous person as well


The cabbie ( The villain) He is a not very tall, he got a short white hair, and he is quite old.

This is his style. In the normal films, the villain is quite old, and his appearance is suitable for this character.

He always wear a long coat, a hat and a glasses. There is a listing in his neck as well. His wearing style is very old as well.

His wearing style is very plain, just like a normal person, doesn’t like a murderer, so that can help him to hide himself, police hard to find out him. And his wearing is very cheap, that’s mean he is not very rich, so he help Moriarty kill other people, then he can earn the money.

When he is talking and listening, his fingers is cross and put under the table. When he is sit down, his feet sometimes will move.

His fingers is cross and put under table and his feet sometimes will move, these shows he is a little bit nervous, he afraid about Sherlock, he afraid Sherlock will find out the truth. So these movement fit the character mood and activity in his heart.

His facial expression is evil and fake. it also showing he is very confident. His facial expression let people feeling uncomfortable and horrible.

Villain always very fake and evil. Because they need to hide themselves, they afraid and nervous, but they must disguise they are winner, so this acting is fit that character.

When he is talking to Sherlock, he always very confident, his sound always make people feeling uncomfortable.

Villain always very confident when they meet the hero, because they wants to kill the hero and win. Also, when they talking, their sound is very evil and horrible, that can let people know they are the villain by their feather, they are very bad and evil, then people can know who is the villain clearly.


The cabbie The cabbie is villain is Sherlock. He is helping Moriarty to kill other people by using pills, then Moriarty will pay money for him. The cabbie need money, because he is not very rich and he need to save his children, his children just before die, so from this sight, we can see he is not like that evil, he is a good farther. His wearing show he is not very rich as well. He always wear a long coat, his cloth look very old, his wearing style is very plain, like a normal person, so he also can hide himself very well, police is hard to find out he is the murderer. He is quite old, not very tall, middle height, he got a short white hair and he always wears a hat and a glasses. When he is talking and listening, he is very nervous, his figures cross and put under table, his feet will have a little movement, that display he is afraid Sherlock will find out the truth , but on the surface, he pretend he is very relax, he ensures he is the winner, he thinks he can kill Sherlock and police cannot find out him, so on this sight, we can see he is very evil, when he is talking, his sound make us feeling very uncomfortable, and his facial expression is very evil and faketoo. Name:Lingman Lai


Mycroft (Sherlock’s brother) Mycroft is Sherlock’s brother, but he is very different to Sherlock. He is very rich, so when he go out, he has his own car,a driver and a secretary follow him, but Sherlock usually go out by himself, sometimes Watson will follow him, and he doesn’t have his own driver, he always go out by taxi. He always wears formal cloth, like tie, shirt and a black suit, different to Sherlock,he is more formal than him. On his hands, he always brings a ring, and he always bring an umbrella with him, and when he stand there, he will hold that umbrella by his right hand and put his left hand in his pocket, he always put his head up as well, thiscan give audience feeling he is a very good person and has strong strength. When he is talking, he always very confident and has a little bit smile on his face, that can makes audiences feeling a little bit scared and uncomfortable. But he has something similar to Sherlock, for example: when he is talking, he doesn’t tell someone else the answer clearly, you need to think about it and work out what he want to say. I think he is very smart and clever as well, cause he always can find out someone very quickly, like Sherlock.


Anderson ( The false hero) Anderson is the false hero in Sherlock, he is oneof the police. He is not very short, he has a black hair, he always wear what the police need to wear, so he usually follow the rules, doesn’t like Sherlock.He is the only one disagree Sherlock to help them solve this crime, Sherlock doesn’t like him as well. When Sherlock is thinking, he told Anderson turn his back and told him : ‘Anderson, don’t talk out loud. You lower the IQ of the whole street.’ And sometimes Sherlock will say something bad thingsto Anderson, but that is the truth. Sherlock doesn’t think he is clever, and Anderson never believe Sherlock and doesn’t listen to him, so they always will have a small quarrel. But he is a hero, he always use his all knowledge to help solving those crimes.


SECTION 4

Todorov and Narrative


Background information about Todorov

Todorov was born on March 1, 1939,age 75. He is a Bulgarian-French historian and famous literary critic. He was married with Nancy Huston, and they have two lovely children. Todorov has published a total of 21 books, for example: Introduction to Poetics (1981), The Conquest of America (1982). In 1969, Todorov produced a theory , hethinks that theory can be apply to any films. He think allthe films must follow the same narrative rules, so he produced that theory of narrative. Basically, that theory have five sections, they are Equilibrium, Disruption, Quest, Confrontation/Climax and Resolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov



Equilibrium: This is at the beginning when there is normally and calmness. They will let all the audiences know all the main character, and nothing happen, just like normal.

Disruption: This is when character have some bad idea, the murderer starts to attack, and it starts the main story, some scary things will happen.

Quest: This is let all the main characters join this event, always is start to collect

evidences, try to solve it and let everything go back to equilibrium which is the beginning.

Confrontation/Climax : This is usually when the hero found out the villain and meet him, they usually will have a conversation just the hero and the villain, also they will have a big fight in here. I think this is the high tide in the whole story.Resolution: This is where end of the story. Usually all the problems will solve, everything will go back to before, go back to normal.

Todorov’s Narrative Theory


Equilibrium: This is the beginning in Sherlock. They introduce the main characters who are Sherlock and Watson. At that time, nothing happened, very normal.

Disruption: There are three dead event happened already, the police don’t know how to solve it and find out the murderer, when the fourth dead happened, which is a woman with the pink coat, the police found she in an old hotel, the police invite Sherlock to help them solve this crime, so Sherlock go there and collect some evidences on that woman, Watson go there as well. So these two main character involve this event.

Quest: Sherlock collected some information from that woman, then he found a suitcase and a phone which are belong to that woman. He is already started try to think about it and solve this crime.

Confrontation/Climax: Here is Sherlock and the cabbie first time meet each other and have a conversation just between them. They are talking about he was responsible for all the suicides. The cabbie wants to kill Sherlock by using the pills, but when Sherlock ready to take the pill, Watson appear and shot the cabbie from a very long distance, then he save Sherlock. Then Sherlock asked the cabbie some questions, then he knows all the truth about it.

Resolution: Police asks Sherlock some questions about it, then the real murderer Moriarty is appear, then they introduce him in to the narrative. Finally, Sherlock and Watson become friends.

Example of each stag -- ‘ Sherlock’


The Timeline in SherlockWatson had a bad dream, which is a war, then he

find a doctor to talkabout this, that doctor give him some advices, like write everything

happen on him into the blog.

Here is the equilibrium, where is introduce the main character Watson

and everything in normal.

Here is start to disruption, three dead

happened, police start to investigate it. First dead. A man who is very happy every day, love his work and his family. But he

suicide after he take a cab and using a type of drug,

which is pills.

Second dead. A boy just 18 years old

dead, he suicide in sport centre and using that pills as

well. The third dead. A woman dead in a building of London, also she is suicide and using that

pills again.

Then the police have a press conference, they start to investigate it and find three events have many common point, so they think there are some links

between them.

When the press

conference going on, everyone

have collected 3 messages

those write ‘Wrong’ on it.

Watson meet an old friend in the park, they have

a chat, and Watson wants

to find a flatmate, then

that friend helps him.Here also is disruption, it

introduce the other main character and those main character ready to involve

the events. Watson meet his the other main character who’s name is Sherlock in

laboratory. After a little chat, they are ready to look that house where is on Baker

street 221B London.

Then Watson have done some research

about Sherlock Holmes, also the

fourth is happened what is a woman with pink dress is going to

take the pills. Also they go to have a look

that house , the landlady is Mrs

Hudson she is very friendly, but Watson

still thinking about it.

The police come and ask Sherlock for help,

then Sherlock take Watson with him and

go there to help them, they have some chats, so they already knew

some information about each other.

In here, these two main character is involve the

crime.


Here is start to quest, Sherlock and Watson

start to solve the crime. Sherlock and Watson arrive the scene and Sherlock check that

woman and collect some information from that

woman, also he let Watson have a check is

that woman dead or not.

Then Sherlock start to solve it, tell them all the information he

collected and do some analysis on it, then he

is going to find a suitcase which is

belong to that woman with pink coat, he tries

to get more information and

evidences and find out who is the murderer.

Then when Watson going back to 221B, he always get phone

call from the telephone booth, then

someone try to pay him money let him monitor Sherlock,

actually that person is Sherlock’s brother.Then Sherlock find that suitcase and find the woman’s mobile phone is missing. So

they think the murderer is carrying that phone. So they

text that phone, which is mean they text the

murderer.

Then they go to a restaurant to wait and try to catch the murderer. Then

they find a taxi, they follow the taxi by running, then they catch it but that

person is not the murderer, they got it wrong. But they prove one point,

Watson wants to become flatmate with Sherlock and Watson break the rules of himself, he is walking without the crutch, he is running with Sherlock.

All the police in 221B now, they

want Sherlock to work with them. After some chat

and think, Sherlock find out the email and the passcode, then he log in, there is a map in it, so he

can find out where is the

phone and the murderer and

catch him. During this process, his landlady try to

tell Sherlock have a taxi outside the

house, but Sherlock ignores about it. Finally the result is the phone is in 221B

Baker Street right now, which

is where is he living.

The murderer is already appear, he

come to 221B and find

Sherlock. He use the pink

phone which is belong to that woman with the pink coat

to text Sherlock, he

wants Sherlock to follow with

him and take him to a college.

Here is the confrontation, and here is the hero Sherlock meet the villain who is the

cabbie, they will talk and fight here, also the ending is coming.

They have a conversation, the cabbie says it clearly, he wants Sherlock to die. So the

cabbie wants play a game with Sherlock, he wants him to choose one bottle of the pills and take it, then he will take the other one. During this process, Watson already knew

where are they by using that woman’s phone map. Then he is going to go to that college

and save Sherlock. Name:Lingman LaiCentre number: 51415

During they having the conversation, Sherlock know some more information

from the cabbie. He knew there is a direct from behind the scenes, he is a sponsor for the cabbie, so that’s why the cabbie kill those people, also he

know some personal information about the cabbie as well. At now, Watson was

already arrived that college and looking for Sherlock.

Then Sherlock does not want to play this game with the cabbie, but the

cabbie take out his gun and threat to Sherlock, then Sherlock choose the gun because he already knew that gun is not a real one gun. But then,

the cabbie use the other way to persuade Sherlock to play the game,

finally Sherlock agree it.

Then Sherlock pick one in front of the cabbie, they are going to take those pills. During this, Watson still finding Sherlock, just a few

second before Sherlock takes that pills, Watson saw them from the other side though the windows.

When the Watson saw them, Sherlock is ready to take that pill, but Watson wants to stop him, so he

shot the cabbie by using his own gun, then Sherlock ask questions to the cabbie, he step on the cabbie’s wound, then the cabbie tell Sherlock who is the sponsor and who is Sherlock’s fan, the

name is Moriaty.Here is the resolution, the crime has been solve,

everything go back to normal. Then the police is come but they do not know who shot the cabbie, but the Sherlock

know it. So the Watson save Sherlock. When they walk out of the scene, they meet that man who want Watson to

monitor Sherlock, actually he is Sherlock’s brother Mycroft, Watson know it at that time.

This is the ending, everything go back to before, Watson and Sherlock become to

friends and partner as well.


Different between disruptions and questsDisruption Three dead, all of them are suicide events, but police do not know how to solve it or what they need to do.

1.These dead events will make people confuse and felling mysterious about it. Then the audience will interest about this story, they will want to see what happen next, then it will bring you into the narrative. 2. It won’t tell you who is the murderer, they will make it very complex and hard to work out it, it won’t give you too many clues, then the narrative will be very intricate and multi-layered. So the audiences will feeling more confuse and mysterious

When Sherlock and the cabbie ready to take the pill, they maybe will die, but Watson shot the cabbie and save Sherlock. Then the cabbie tell Sherlock who is the sponsor, whose name is Moriarty.

1.The end of the series, this crime has solved, everything go back to normal. And the cabbie tell us who is the sponsor, so this part is introduce the person who is the real murderer ‘Moriarty’, which can give us an area to think, what is the real murderer look like, then people will want to look next series and see how to find out the real murderer. 2.Original, the cabbie doesn’t want to tell Sherlock who is the sponsor, but Sherlock step on his wound, make him living death, so finally, he tell the name of the sponsor to Sherlock. So the cabbie, Watson and Sherlock all of them caused it.

Sherlock and Watson use Sherlock’s amazing memory map to find some small pathway to catch a visitor in the cabbie’s taxi car.

1. They find that taxi so they follow it and try to catch the murderer, but the one who is sitting in the taxi just a visitor, he is not a murderer. So they got it wrong. Here will make audience feeling this event is very hard to solve and complex, so they will want to watch what will happen next, how they find out the murderer? So it bring audiences’ curiosity up.

Watson had a shot in the war, his leg has injured before.

1. That shot in the war is doesn’t really matter, but in his mind he must walk with crutch. But when he is following that taxi, he is running with Sherlock without the crutch, so we can see actually his leg is fine. 2. When they are waiting for the murderer, they stay in a restaurant, Watson put his crutch beside him, when Sherlock going out, his mind is thinking about following Sherlock, he forget his crutch, so actually after that, Watson can face the truth, he can persuade himself to walk without the crutch.


Quests

They are trying to find out where is that woman’s phone who is with the pink coat.

1.That woman with the pink coat who is the special victim, she use her nail write down the passcode of her email on the ground. So she gives Sherlock or the police clues to find her phone. If they can log in her email, then they can see where is her phone right now clearly, then they can work out where is the murderer. 2. This part is very complex, so you must thinking then you may can get it. So this part can make people feeling the hero who is Sherlock is amazing and this narrative is very intricate. 3. This is Sherlock and that dead woman caused it. Because Sherlock wants to find her phone, then that dead woman gives him clue to help him.

The audiences are very confuse why those people want to suicide, how they die?

1. They have a press conference what is talking about these dead events, those journalists want to the truth about these events. But none of the police can solve these crimes, so people are feeling this crime is very complex and hard to solve, so people really want to see how the detective work out who is the murderer. 2. They are die but don’t have any reason. They are die in the same way, and they are all suicide. This will make this crime more mysterious and interesting, then the audience will very confuse on this so it won’t be bored for them. 3. The police and those dead people caused it. Because the police cannot solve this crime and find out the truth, so the main character involve this crime. Also because the dead people dead, so the police have this crime and need to solve it, protect others and find out the truth and the murderer.

Who is the murderer? How they do it? How they kill those people?

1. They always won’t tell audiences who is the murderer at the beginning, because they need to keep this mysterious. People want to know who is the murderer, so they will keep watching it, then at the end of it, they will tell you who is it. So they need to solve it and find out the truth and the murderer, this is the main quests in crime dramas. 2. This can make people keeping watching it and feeling it is very mysterious and complex, the detective is very hard to work out it, so audiences will pat attention on those two main character, then people will interest and focus on it, won’t get bored. 3. Sherlock and Watson caused it. Because they are the heroes and the detectives, they solved the crime and find out who is the murderer.


SECTION 5

Setting


Setting in Sherlock always very dark dangerous places, but some of it not. Some of those places normally nobody will go there, and some of it are very central of the city. For example: their house is in High Street and there are many people every day. But at the end of it, the cabbie and Sherlock are talking in a college, there very quiet and look horrific, I think nobody will go there at night. Basically, these places depend on what is happening at that time. Every time they need to use different setting to fit the narrative, so we are going to talk about the main setting in Sherlock.

M a i n S e t t i n g i n S h e r l o c k

221B Baker Street

( where is Sherlock and Watson live)

The university ( college)

The old hotel

Watson’s bedroom

The old building

The restaurant

The hospital

Sherlock’s own room

Setting in Sherlock

Other Setting in Sherlock.

1. Sherlock and Watson they talk on a taxi. 2. The cabbie’s taxi. 3. The call-box where is Mycroft(Sherlock’s brother)called Watson. 4. The place is appear in Watson’s dream, which is a war 5. Where is Watson meet his psychologist


Main Setting in Sherlock This setting in on 221B Baker Street, this is where Sherlock and Watson live. This house is belong to an old women, she hire this house to them, also that is where Sherlock and Watson know each other. There have many very important conversation and Sherlock sometimes will think up there

No 1:

No 2: This is setting in a university(college), there is one of the science classroom. That classroom is where the cabbie wants to kill Sherlock by using bills and they have a conversation up there.This setting fit the narrative, because there is happening a dangerous event, so the setting should be look dangerous and dark. Also, they choose college because there are no one up there at night, then police hard to find out the cabbie and save Sherlock.All the answer will clear at there, there is nearly end of the story, also there is where the confrontation and climax was happened.


No.3: This is an old hotel, this is where that woman with pink coat dead. I think this setting fit the narratives as well. Because in these type of crime drama, always people dead in these places, where is very old, dark and normally nobody will go there. Police found that dead woman in that old hotel, and Sherlock get many information in there.

No.4: This is Watson’s (the helper) room, it is on Barker Street 221B. This place just appear on the beginning of the story, it tell us we have Watson this character. His room is simple and clean, do not have many furniture and other staff in it. It shows he doesn’t have much money, he is not a rich person. Also, we can see he is a very lonely person.

No.5: This is an old building, it is where Watson the first time meet Mycroft (Sherlock’s brother), and here is the first time introduce Sherlock’s brother as well. This building very old, I think it haven’t be used for long time. I think Mycroft choose this place to have a conversation because he doesn’t want anyone else to hear their conversation, it shows this conversation is very private, also we can seeMycroft is a very clever and proud person, this feather is like Sherlock.


No.6: This is the restaurant is where Sherlock the first time found the cabbie, then he follow him around London. But,he is not sure about the cabbie is the murderer at that time.He can remember the whole map in London, so he run in thosesmall street to follow him, also is up there, Watson throw thecrutch away, follow Sherlock and run very fast without the crutch. No.7: This is where Sherlock and Watson first meet, and they know each other need a housemate, then they hire a house and live together. Also there are some conversation in here. Sherlock sometimes will do some work in it as well.

No.8: This is Sherlock’s room, which is in Barker Street 221B, his have many area is different to others, is very special, so this point fit the narrative, Sherlock is a very special person, he is very anti-sociable and doesn’t want to follow the rules.


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Detail about the main SettingThe First one


This is hotel is very old. We can see the background and the door, some of the wall was already broke and top of the wall was really dirty. Also the door is very dirty and old. So it shows this hotel hasn’t been clean or live for long time. There are some staffs on the floor as well, so this room is very untidy. This is fit on the narrative, because murderer always kill people in some old place, then police hard to find out it and usually these type of dramas will happen in these types of places.

There is a light up there. That light is very bright, because when they are trying to find some information, they need the light, then they won’t miss anything.

The whole screen is using low shot and three shot, because we can see the three main character in this screen and use low shot we can see their face clearly, also it can male audiences feeling these three people are very powerful and strong.


There just Sherlock doesn’t wear that blue cloth, because he is special, he wants to be different with others and also he doesn’t want to follow the rules. Also people can know who is the detective and who is the most special person clearly.

That woman with a pink coat, she is a victim, also she is the only victim has given some notes, so she is special one. Sherlock solve this crime and find out the murderer by using the information her left, so she is the main victim in this story, also I think that’s why this series called ‘study in pink’.

Sherlock is ready to check that woman and try to get information, Watson is the last person get there, because he walk with crutch, then Watson and the police is waiting for Sherlock, because they don’t know what they need to do.

The room is very empty, don’t have any furniture up there, also we can see those shadow clearly so this room haven’t be ordered for long time, no one live in here, this is typical setting in the crime dramas.


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College always don’t have any people at night. So choose there because police hard to find out where are they, this is typical setting in crime dramas, also choose there people will feeling very dark and scared, because usually will have bad things happen next.

The light is very bright but just the middle line those light on. So we just can see two person clearly, we cannot see what around them. So people will focus on two people and watch what they are doing, how can Sherlock catch him.

Those tables and chairs are in order, this classroom is very tidy, so the environment is very good for them. Sherlock and the cabbie sit on two different sides, but they can see each other clearly. They all sit very relax, because they all very confident, this will make audience feeling horrific, they will worry about the hero who is Sherlock, because the villain who is the cabbie looks very strong and clever as well.


Around this classroom, there are windows around them, so people can see what happen inside that classroom, so that is the point how the Watson save him. Watson see Sherlock ready to take that pill, he wants to stop him, so he shot the cabbie thought those windows, so the windows help Watson to save Sherlock.

There is very quiet, you just can hear their voice, don’t have any others voice, so this is one to one, is fair. So it will make audience feeling scared and dangerous, because no one help the hero, he must confront the villain by himself. So people will worry about him and want to look what happen next, is the hero win or die? So it won’t get bored, it is excited and very mysterious for people.

We can know who is the hero and who is the villain clearly, then people won’t confuse at this point. Because they are exactly different, everything is different.

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His house light mainly very dark, just have several lights on it. There are not lights on the top of the wall, just have two table lamps on the desk, and a lamp on the wall. It shows he likes dark, he is a very dissocial people, he always be alone. The table lamps show he always work very late because he need to solve those crimes and he doesn’t want to miss anything.

His room is very untidy, because he is really busy, he needs to think every time to help people solve crimes, so he doesn’t have time to clear up his room. But also, I think his character doesn’t suit to do this thing as well.

This is a long shot of the room, it shows the whole room very clearly, then people can see his room very clearly and know some personal information about him from his room.

There are many books on the bookshelf, and those books are not in order, very untidy. So it shows Sherlock always read those books to help him know more knowledge than others. Name:Lingman Lai


There are two big windows with curtains up there. It can be useful for Sherlock, because he can see what is happening outside through the windows, it can help him to know some information easier.

His table is very untidy, and the chair is outside the table, no push inside probably, so it means he always sit on that chair and use that table for working. Also he put all the staff around him, so that’s display he likes all the things around him, that can be convenient for him.

The sofa looks very old and the surface of it is a little bit crumpled, that’s mean he always sit on it. In Sherlock he always think and talk to Watson by sitting on that sofa.

On the other cupboard, there are many special strange staffs on it. So that displays he is not a antisocial and antihuman person. He always like different to others and doesn’t want to follow the rules, so these special hobby makes him hard to make friends with some other normal person.

What do the setting suggest about the TV Drama?When the murderer want to kill people or meet the hero, they always will choose some place very dark and quite, don’t have any people up there and police hard to find out where is it.

One of the main setting place in crime drama will be some old and dark buildings, the murderer events always happen up there, usually someone die up there.

When the police meet the hero, they always meet in some normal places, like where the hero live or the police office.

When someone need to talk to you, they will choose some place is nobody there, because they need to talk something about secret, so they will take you to somewhere you don’t know, there always very dark and quite.

The hero’s house always will happen something. Because the hero will think in there or have some chats up there.

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When people see those dead people in some old, dark building, then always will have some mood music playing on, then audiences will feeling afraid and scared, because they are confusing, they don’t know what’s going on, so they may want to watch what happen next and know all the truth about it.

When the villain meet the hero, they always choose those places don’t have anyone up there, very dark and quite, also the police hard to find out where is it. Then, it will let the audiences worry about the hero, they will feeling shock and nervous, they want to know the truth and see what is the ending, so they will want to watch what is going to happen next.

The hero’s house always have something happen. Like when the police ask the hero for help, he came to his house. When the hero is thinking and have a chat with the helper, they are in hero’s house as well. And if the villain wants to find the hero, he will come to his house as well, so the hero’s house is a main setting in crimes drama. So 221B Barker Street is the main setting in Sherlock. And when they are doing this in the hero’s house, it will let audiences more confuse about it, they will feel this case is hard to work out, it very complex, also give the unio mystical to audiences as well. So if the hero work out it, audiences will feel that hero is amazing, very clever and tactful.

What will the audience think of or react to the settings?


SECTION 6

Iconography and Props


Typical Props/Iconography in Crime Drama Drugs The villain always use drugs to kill people. It can give the answer

to police which is the villain kill them by using what.

Alcohol Always in these types of drama, someone will get drunk because something wrong, then it can make something happen.

Gun Police ,villain and other main characters always have gun. The villain always use gun to kill people and sometimes try to kill the hero, but the other people always use it to protect people or save someone.

Police car Police car always appear when some bad things happen, someone need help or they are going to solve the crime and save people. So when some dangerous things happen, the police will come by police car.

Mobile phone

Mobile phone is a very important tool to communicate with someone else, because when someone need to talk or meet someone, they usually use phone to tell that person. Also mobile phone may can give us information or evidences about that event. I think everyone may have mobile phone in this time.


Blood We always can see if someone die, who is always victim, it will have blood up there, that can make us feeling scared and uncomfortable.

Police Costume

Police always have their own costume to show everyone they are police. When we see it, we can know police is coming and maybe there are some dangerous events are happening.

Gloves When someone checking a person is die or not, they usually need to wear a white gloves, like doctor. And, when the detective collecting the evidences and information, if they need to touch something or someone, they need to wear gloves as well, but that gloves maybe is other colour. That gloves can protect themselves and protect the information the victim left.

Special clothes

When someone need to enter the scene or murder area everyone need to wear something special, like some blue plastic clothes. That can help to protect themselves and the evidences victim left. It’s function as same as gloves.

Hat In these types of dramas, always have person will wear hat. They can use it to hide themselves, then other people cannot recognize them very easy, so the villain always wear hat, they need to protect themselves and don’t want anyone find out them.

Black coat(dark costume)

The detective always wear the black coat in these types of dramas, because we can know who is the detective clearly, and he is very special and different from others. Also, the black coat or some other dark costume, it can let audience feeling very mysterious and display the detective is very smart and powerful.

Newspaper In these type of drama, those character always know some news, information and what is happening on newspaper, so newspaper like a tools to tell everybody what is happening, what is the news. Also when they sit down, they need to do some activity, they always look newspaper


Typical Props/ Iconography in Sherlock Pills Pill is one type of drugs, the villain use this to kill

people in Sherlock. Those people dead at the beginning is because of pills.

Gun All the police in Sherlock maybe all have gun, because they are police, they should have. All the murderer should have gun in crime drama as well, so the villain who is the cabbie had gun in Sherlock, he use the gun to threat Sherlock to take the pills, he wants to kill him. Watson has gun because he is the doctor in army before. Before Sherlock start to take the pills, at the last second, he used the gun to shoot the cabbie and save Sherlock.

Police car In Sherlock, when the police invite Sherlock to help them solve the crime and collect evidences and information, outside the door, there are many police cars up there, those polices transport by police cars.

Mobile phone

Sherlock found out that woman with pink coat without the mobile phone, then he go to find out her mobile phone and get some information from her phone. Also, he has always borrow Watson’s phone to do something, sometimes he will use his phone to find some information to solve the crime.

Police costume

In Sherlock, all the police wear the police costume, I think that is the rules. It shows they are police man, so we can know it clearly.


Sherlock’s laptop He use his laptop to find out where is that phone and the murderer(villain), also Watson is use the laptop to know where is Sherlock and save him.

Blue special clothes

When they go in the scene, they need to wear that blue special to protect themselves. But Sherlock doesn’t wear it, because he doesn’t follow the rules, this can display he is very special.

Hat and glasses The cabbie always wear the glasses and hat, His hat is casquette, then he can hide himself people hard to find out the villain is him. People can know he is the villain clearly and confuse with his personal information, then they will want to know it.

Black coat and gloves

Black coat is Sherlock’s wearing style. He always wear it, it let audiences feeling he is very mysterious and he is very special, also it display the detective is very smart and powerful. When he is collecting the information from that dead woman with pink coat, he wear gloves to protect himself.

Crutch Watson got a shot in the war when he was a doctor in army, we can know it from the beginning of the Sherlock, when they introduce the Watson. Although that shot doesn’t really matter, but in his thought, he must need to use crutch to help him to walk.

The dead woman’s suitcase , ring and umbrella

These things are belong to that dead woman who is the victim, it can help the detective(Sherlock) to get some information and evidences to help solve the crime and find out the murderer.

Nicotine patch When Sherlock is thinking, he think nicotine patch can help him, and always he use more nicotine patches than others, so we can see he is very different from others


SECTION 7

Ideology


What is the “idea” behind the TV Drama ‘Sherlock’ The main character Sherlock is the focus point in the whole Sherlock TV drama. He is a very special person, he is a little bit antisocial and antihuman, he is different to the other heroes or detectives. In the other crime drama, the hero or the detective should be very perfect, friendly, polite and have many friends. But Sherlock is very different, he is a really special and strange person. Others detective helps police to solve those crime and find out the murderer may because of money or may because of righteousness, but Sherlock is different, he help the police to solve the crimes because he enjoy it. He is not very polite to people and sometimes he is a little bit cold-bloodedness, so he doesn’t have many friends. So that is why he is different and doesn’t follow the rules. Those producers create him because he is very poplar and have many people knew that book or know that person already. The producers also did some improvement on Sherlock, because that can attack more people to watch it, and also the plot need to be more interesting and they need to improve the relationship between two main characters who are Sherlock and Watson.

Sherlock is remake from the book. The first time, Sherlock is a book wrote by Arthur Conan Doyle, at that time, many many people like it and read it, so it going to be popular and famous. So, one of the reasons the producers produce it is this book it very famous and has many many fans. But those audiences have imagine it but have not seen what it the real Sherlock look like, so they will expect it, then it will remake it successful, because all the reader of the Sherlock will go to see what is Sherlock look like and how amazing he is. So when they creating the real Sherlock, they need to make him close to what the audiences or the reader imagine, then it will attack more people to watch it, then it can become more popular than before. Except this, they still need to improve many many things and do much much work, then they can produce out a good product of it.


In Sherlock, sometimes even the hero of the Sherlock they will make mistakes and police will want to catch him. So that’s mean everyone is the same when they meet the law, it shows the law is very fair to everyone. Also I think BBC also wants to fight the evil and the crimes by using Sherlock.

Someone may think Sherlock is a very amazing person but someone doesn’t. Because some people has read the ordinary book about it, so they may think this Sherlock is really far and different to their imagine that one, so they may cannot accept it. But some one may think this Sherlock is very near and close to what they imagine, so they will love it and think he is a fantastic special and amazing person.

This Sherlock had a little bit change from the old one, the producer make it different and more modern, also the plot of it is more interesting as well. So some people may don’t like this modern, they will think they change a lot, make it complete different, they prefer the old one. But some people will think this modern more fit this era , the plot is more interesting and everything is getting better, so they will prefer the new one. So basically, everyone got their own idea about this.

What message is being communicated? They want us to see an amazing detective who is Sherlock. He has an amazing memory and the strongest the ability of thinking. Also he is very special and different from others, so the audiences won’t get bored when they seeing this, because this plot of Sherlock is very abnormal. Also the producers change a little bit from the book. Then the reader can see what is a real Sherlock in the world. And they are make the plot more interesting, then it can attack more people to watch it. Anyway, all the amazing point of Sherlock can attack more people to see it. Also Sherlock is basically about the hero Sherlock how to solving the crimes, so BBC broadcast this and let people to see how amazing of the Sherlock, also it is fighting to the evil and the crime.

What do the image and text make the audience think of?


SECTION 8

Target audience


The target audience for the TV series ‘Sherlock’

Social Guide Social Class OccupationA Upper middle class Higher managerial, administrative, lawyers or some

other professionalB Middle class Intermediate managerial, doctor, teachers or other

professional.C1 Lower middle class Junior managerial, supervisors, mangers, nursesC2 Skilled working

classSkilled manual workers, white collar

D Working class Semi and unskilled manual workers, blue collarE Lowest class Unemployed, students, lowest grade workers

Age Above 12 years oldGender All gender

Ethnicity All ethnicity

Geographical

All geographical

I think mostly people can watch Sherlock, except some children too young, like under 12 years old. Sherlock is very famous TV Drama in the world, very international, you can find it on TV, internet, DVD or book very easy, it also doesn’t need to pay money, you can watch it on internet be free. This drama suit on every type of people who like watching crime drama, it doesn’t matter which social class you in, what gender, ethnicity or geographical you are. Sherlock is a very interesting crime drama, it just a little bit scary, not too much, so it suitable for everybody. It shows you those crimes and how the hero Sherlock solve it, we can see the all the amazing point and thinking on the Sherlock. Some part of it, it is a little bit funny, but some part of it, you will worry about it, it always give you unio mystical, so you will want to watch what happen next, how the hero Sherlock solve this crime and find out the murderer. So I think this is a fantastic product.


TV Drama ‘Sherlock’Channel of Sherlock is shown on

1.BBC one 2.PBS(2010 to today.) 3.BBC one HD (2012 to today) 4.alibi 5.BBC HD(2010) 6.IMDB 2010

When and Where of the Sherlock is shown on

1.The first series: a):July and August 2010 on the BBC b):October 2010 on PBS( Public Broadcasting Service) in USA2.The second series: a): January 2012 in UK b): May 20123. The third series: a): 1 January 2014 in UK b):19 January 2014 in USA Viewing figures:

The first series of Sherlock was 7.5 million for the opening episode, this is the highest overnight figure from the first series. According to overnight data provided by the Broadcaster’s Audience Research Board (BARB),

The second and the third series are averaged over 8 million viewers. This is the three most watched programmes on iPlayer.

Series one holds a Meteoritic score of 85/100, based on 17 reviews. Series two scored 91/100, based on 24 reviews.

Series three holds 88/100, based on 22 reviews.

The first two series hold a 100% rating at critical aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. The third series has a 97% approval rating.

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Appeals of the audience about TV Drama ‘Sherlock’

Sherlock appeal to many audiences. . The first

reason of it is the book is very popular, so there are many people read that book and knew who is the Sherlock already. So they really want to see and really expect what is the real Sherlock look like, and how the actor perform the Sherlock from the book. The second reason of a lot of people appeals Sherlock because the actor of Sherlock is quite handsome, so there are many girls like him. The actor of the Sherlock, his acting is fantastic, he creates that Sherlock is really like the real Sherlock and close to people’s imagine that Sherlock, so many people will praise him. Also, the plot of Sherlock is really interesting, We can see how amazing of Sherlock, his memory and his ability of thinking are brilliant. None of us can think like Sherlock in the real world, so people may wish they can be Sherlock.

Watson appeal to many audiences as well. He is the second main

character in Sherlock. He is very normal, but he has some thing better than Sherlock, and he is like Sherlock’s right-hand man, without him, Sherlock is not complete. There is a little bit different to book, because he and Sherlock their relationship is more clearly, so many people want to see how they change it, how Watson save Sherlock, and he help Sherlock? He is a doctor, so how use his skills to help Sherlock. Sherlock doesn’t have many friends, but he chooses Watson be his the best friend, why? Many people want to know why as well. Watson’s acting is very good as well, so many people will want to see how he act and what happen between he and Sherlock.

The writer Conan Doyle’s appeal to many people and the producer Gatiss as well. Because they will improve the plot, so it will have a little bit change. So I think people will very expect and want to see how he improve the ordinary to more modern and interesting, then it can attack more people to watch, so he made the TV series funnier than what the book shows us. He said ‘people slightly lost sight of the fact that they’re enormous fun. ‘So he want the audience enjoy it, this is what he want to do.


Fan base of the Sherlock

When the Sherlock shows on the TV(BBC) and internet(YouTube), the viewing figure is very high, that attack many people to watch, because they shows the book in the modern way, so positive audiences will give some comment and feedback of it, those audiences are the fans. Also there are many people like the acting of the Sherlock or some else elements of Sherlock will go to watch it and maybe become to the fans of Sherlock.

The reader of the book of the Sherlock. They already knew who is Sherlock and loved it so much, then they will expect what is the real Sherlock look like, so they will go to watch it and be the fans of it.

Everyone like crime drama will be the fans of Sherlock. Also the fans of that author and those actors maybe will watch it, so they will become to Sherlock’s fans as well.

After the TV show of Sherlock aired, there are more people watch it and become fans of it. Because some people always like to watch BBC channels or BBC HD channels maybe will watch it. It’s may have many different age and many different country people love it, Sherlock is become to be very intentional. Also if they interest on it, they will find some other videos on the internet and give some comment or feedback, then they will become to fans of Sherlock as well.


SECTION 9

Marketing and Promotion


Production Company

Hartswood Films BBD Wales WDGH

Executive Producer(s)

Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat Beryl Vertue

Producer(s) Sue Vertue Elaine Cameron

Editors(s) Charlie Phillips Mail Evans Tim Porter

Cinematography

Fabian Wagner Steve Lawes

Camera setup

Single camera

Genre Crime dramaCreated by Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat

Based on Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Written by Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat Stephen Thompson

Directed byPaul McGuigan Euros LynToby Haynes Colm McCarthyNick Hurran Jeremy Lovering

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Martin Freeman

Composer(s) David Arnold Michael Price

Mark GatissMark Gatiss is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. He born on 17 of October 1996, in Sedgefield, County Durham, England. He created Sherlock with Steven Moffat, and also, he act Sherlock’s brother Mycroft in Sherlock.

He also acts many other drama, like 'The Leaguer of Gentlemen’, ‘Match Point’, ‘Clone’, etc.

He also wrote many books as well, like ‘P.R.O.B.E.’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Crooked House’, etc.

Steven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer. He born on 18 November 1961 in Paisley, Scotland. He created Sherlock with Mark Gatiss.

He also wrote many others products, like

’Press Gang’, ‘Chalk’, ‘Stay Lucky’, etc.

He gets the Hugo Award 8 times, he also get many other award as well. For example: ‘Study in pink’, he wrote had got ‘Primetime Emmy Award.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series) Steven Moffat


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series

Future Plan They’ve started planning for the fourth seasons, and it will meet audiences soon. Moffat said: “Rather excitingly, Mark and I, for no particular reason, we just got out of the rain and sat at the top of the Sherlock.” They just start plotting out what they could do in the future. Because they all got their own work to do, so, the fourth series must depend on their all people’s timetable. And, there are noplans to make a movie since each episode is the length of a feature. Also, the previous actors Cumberbatch and Freeman said they will still return to series 4 in the future.

Marketed and Promoted

Sherlock is very famous and international drama, it’s has a very high popularity and viewing figure. It shows on TV, films, books, internet and radio.• The TV drama Sherlock was first broadcasted on BBC One and BBC HD on 25 July 2010. So some people like watch those channels they may will watch.• The film of Sherlock shown in the United States on 25 of December 2009, and in UK, Ireland and pacific on 26 of December 2009. Then people will know it in cinema or the prevue of this film.• Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective in the story that created by Scottish author and Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories.• After TV show, those videos will put on to some player in the internet, then people can watch it on Internet be free. Also people will know Sherlock by this way. • In 1998, U.S. radio producer Jim French was given permission from the Conan Doyle estate to produce new, original Sherlock Holmes stories for radio in North America. Sherlock use these way to promote, also they will have some prevue, poster or advertisement of Sherlock,then it’s market can be international, all of the world people will know it, then they will watch or but it..


SECTION 10

Explore other examples


Introduction:

Sherlock--"The Reichenbach Fall” Series two, Episode 3

The Reichenbach Fall is the final episode in series two. It written by Stephen Thompson The first broadcast in BBC and BBC ONE HD on 15 January 2012, and it attacked 9.78 million viewer. It directed by Toby Haynes, and produced by Elaine Cameron. In this episode, the Moriarty appear and set up Sherlock, Moriarty is very smart, so he makes many amazing crimes, but he did not sentence. Then he makes people believe Sherlock’s sagas are fake, and order four killer live near to Sherlock, they will kill anyone very near to Sherlock. Also, the polices start to suspect Sherlock and try to catch him as well, but he escape it. Then Moriarty also forces Sherlock to suicide because he wants to defeat Sherlock completely, so he use the lives of the people who are the nearest and the most important to Sherlock to threat Sherlock, after he say those things, Moriarty shot him by himself, he dead. Then Sherlock must suicide to save those people, because if he don’t jump down, those four killer will kill those people who are the nearest to Sherlock, so he did it, but Sherlock did not die, he use his wisdom to make a plan to protect and save himself, but Watson and many people think he already dead, Watson very sad and make a cemetery for Sherlock. Then we will expect what will happen in next series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reichenbach_Fall





InterviewAndrew Scott http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/sherlock-has-changed-my-whole-career-andrew-scott-interview-8940114.html

Andrew Scott thinks’ Sherlock has change his whole career”. Scott thinks the character made such an impact because, “Moriarty came as a real surprise to people.” Then he adds: “He doesn’t have to the conventional villain thing.”

Steven Moffat http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-01-18/steven-moffat-nobodys-spotted-crucial-sherlock-clue

Moffat admitted he had been following the fevered speculation about how Sherlock, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, could appear alive and well in the last scene of the episode, despite having apparently fallen to his death and, indeed, been buried. I’ve been online and looked at all the theories, and there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on.”

Benedict Cumberbatchhttp://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-07/benedict-cumberbatch-on-sherlock-co-star-martin-freeman-he-ups-my-game--he-made-me-cry

Cumberbatch said: “ We met some amazing actors- all of them were really, really good and brought something extraordinary to the part- but when Martin walked in I just felt my game go whoop! Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman: “He ups my game- he made me cry.” Name:Lingman Lai


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/sherlock-has-changed-my-whole-career-andrew-scott-interview-8940114.html



http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-01-18/steven-moffat-nobodys-spotted-crucial-sherlock-clue

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-01-18/steven-moffat-nobodys-spotted-crucial-sherlock-clue

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-07/benedict-cumberbatch-on-sherlock-co-star-martin-freeman-he-ups-my-game--he-made-me-cry



Sherlock is a fantastic and amazing product, everyone in the world can watch it, so it become to very international. The series two is very brilliant. At the end of the series, the Moriarty was dead, and the Sherlock was gone, so it give us some space to imagine what will happen next, it isvery mysterious. Then people will expect and want to watch next series and know the answer.

Sherlock series 2

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