Sherlock Holmes Analysis

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This is the first 5 Minutes of Sherlock Holmes, this is my second analysis of opening sequence as the first one was 'Children's of men'.

Looking at the introduction to Sherlock Holmes, the storyline is kept a secret to the audience however the audience get an understanding of the genre of the film.
The titles and credits are embeded into the video, as the camera takes a birds-eye view of the floor the titles and credit appear in the ground. I found this interesting because the camera doesn't cut away to show the titles. The sound track sets the mood of the film as a hole, because it is mysterious. We are shown the main character at the start of the sequence and slowly but gradually we seem to catch up with the main character who is running. Before we are shown the main character we are shown a few characters who play an important part in the film. The sequence starts of dark which a few street lamps lighting up the scene and stays like that for the 3 minutes i watch the clip. Different camera shots were used but the obvious shot was panning and that was very regular, at the start we seem to chase after the carriage and then we pan the main character while he is running. The framing used throughout the 3 minutes was wide capturing more detail but what i liked most was that the camera never stopped moving between each shot the camera kept on moving. A few close ups were used however there was one amazing slow motion shot which appealed to me as it was also given commentary to guide the audience.