8/9/15 - Sherlock

Looking at how we analyse films through the four relationships being sound, camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene watching Sherlock made it a lot easier to see how men and women are represented differently just by looking at colours, binary opposition, clothing and the few other elements within mise-en-scene. At the beginning of Sherlock there were three people, Sherlock himself, John Watson and the woman who answered to the door being the house keeper I suspect. The way Sherlock came across was frightened and upset as he had just been struck in the face by someone. Little did we know at the beginning that this was his ploy to get inside the house. Although looking away from Sherlock to the woman who answered the door, we see she is wearing both black and white to show both the good and bad within her, here the good took over more as she was willing to help but the bad showed as she didn't help to much only to show Sherlock and John as to where the kitchen and living area were. We then meet a third person a few seconds after we see Sherlock sat in the living area waiting on John to come and clear his cut on his face. A woman, nude from head to toe apart from her black and red shoes enters the room. Only a few moments later we figure that she has walked in nude to use this to her advantage against Sherlock to mess with his head and confuse him, to keep him from dominating the room and the people in it. This then makes the woman the dominant one, we also see this by the way she stands in the room, above Sherlock as if she has power over him. We as the audience are also miss-lead as we assume she is a kind person, due to her being nude this shows nature as if she is pure yet we can see the hidden side to her by the way she sits when she curls up in a chair to cover herself. This also puts a point across as if she were hiding something and/or secrets. What gives this woman's identity away to the audience that she is the evil one in the room is her shoes, finger nails and lipstick, they are all red and this colour defines evil. Also her hair is black which again shows this same outcome. When Sherlock finally gets his head together he becomes the dominant one, by standing above that woman, asking her the questions, there is no sign of stuttering and he is very confident as to the way he is acting, talking, walking and standing. He also becomes the dominant one when he dresses the woman by passing her his jacket. Which also has red cotton inside the black buttons to define her more evil side. Besides all this what he is wearing is what defines him. Although he is dressed in black which would normally make us suspect he is evil, we can see he is not. He comes across more mysterious than anything else, because he is. How he is dressed shows that he takes pride in himself and it is very smart. To point out also, his blue eyes show innocence as well as his curly hair, the curls in his hair make us think of a young child's hair thus being innocent.