The Great Game Frame by Frame

Check out this behind the scenes look at “The Great Game” with Steve Lawes in my new journal, Powers of Expression! http://powers-of-expression.com/the-great-game-frame-by-frame EXCERPT: The Beginning of a Beautiful Relationship “The Great Game” (TGG) has it all. It was the first episode of Sherlock filmed in Series One, and as I write during the filming of Series Four, to my mind it remains the best. It’s got a complex twisty time bomb of a plot. Mark Gatiss’s dialog pops with characteristic witRead more

Každý snímek vypráví svůj příběh: Rozhovor s hlavním kameramanem Stevem Lawesem (My Interview with Steve Lawes in Czech)

Rozhovor vedla 11. února 2014 Mary Jo Watts Přeložila Zuza Ritt Benedict Cumberbatch (vlevo) jako Sherlock Holmes a Steve Lawes (vpravo). Foto Robert Viglasky. Publikováno se souhlasem autora v souladu s oprávněním v původním rozhovoru.   Jsem beznadějně, nenapravitelně posedlá seriálem Sherlock z produkce BBC. Je pro mě zcela nemožné zmírnit nadšení pro tuto moderní adaptaci z pera Stevena Moffata a Marka Gatisse. Ve svých 43 letech se nestydím být fanynkou Sherlocka a hrdě se řadím k milionům ostatních fandůRead more
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All About the Wallpaper: An Interview with Production Designer Arwel Wyn Jones

by Mary Jo Watts (mid0nz) Arwel Wyn Jones is a beloved figure in the Sherlock fandom. It all started with a tweet, a photo of an empty studio, the blank canvas of series three. Each day he would post something new. A scaffold. A wall. Some crew members joking around. “What’s this?” he’d ask about a board with some holes in it, and the guesses would come tumbling in by the hundreds before he would tweet its more famous side, confirmation in theRead more
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With Love and Respect to the Characters: A Q&A with Director Douglas Mackinnon

By Mary Jo Watts (mid0nz)   Sherlock fans? We’re a thirsty lot. We fell in love on the 25th of July, 2010 when the first episode, “A Study in Pink”, debuted on the BBC. Until January 1, 2016 we had only nine full-length episodes to drink up, with at times years between the three seasons. Millions of fans all over the world live in limbo, a nearly perpetual state of hiatus. Each broadcast of a new episode is a respite. WeRead more

AUDIO: Steve Lawes on the Cinematography of Sherlock

Audio snippets from my latest in-depth interview with cinematographer Steve Lawes (February 2015)   Steve was the Director of Photography on Sherlock series one (ASiP, TBB, ASiB), and the first two episodes of series three (TEH, TSo3). The audio clips are excerpted from several hours of conversations I had with Steve in Ithaca, NY during the long, brutally cold winter of 2015 as a follow-up to our 2014 interview “Each Frame Tells a Story.” They’re a sneak peak at just a few ofRead more

ΚΑΘΕ ΚΑΡΕ ΛΕΕΙ ΜΙΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ: ΜΙΑ ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΣΤΗ ΣΤΙΒ ΛΟΟΥΣ (A Greek Translation of My Interview with Cinematographer Steve Lawes)

της Μαίρη Τζο Γουότς (mid0nz) Είμαι απελπισμένα, υπέρμετρα ξεμυαλισμένη με το Σέρλοκ του BBC. Μου είναι αδύνατον να μετριάσω τον ενθουσιασμό μου για την μοντέρνα διασκευή του Στίβεν Μόφατ και του Μαρκ Γκάτις. Στα 43 μου χρόνια, είμαι περήφανη να με αποκαλώ θαυμάστρια της σειράς και να με συμπεριλαμβάνω ανάμεσα στους εκατομμύρια άλλους που απαρτίζουν αυτή τη παγκόσμια κοινότητα θαυμαστών. Ήταν όταν είδα τους τίτλους τέλος του «The Great Game», το αγωνιώδες φινάλε της πρώτης σεζόν, τότε που συνειδητοποίησα ότιRead more

CHAQUE IMAGE RACONTE UNE HISTOIRE : UNE ENTREVUE AVEC LE DIRECTEUR DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE STEVE LAWES

 Par Mary Jo Watts (mid0nz) (Roxane Périard-Fournier, Traductrice) Photo de Benedict Cumberbatch (G) comme Sherlock Holmes et Steve Lawes (R) par Robert Viglasky. Utilisé avec permission. Je suis désespérément, obsessionnellement éprise de la série Sherlock de la BBC. Il est impossible pour moi de tempérer mon enthousiasme pour l’adaptation moderne de Steven Moffat et de Mark Gatiss. À l’âge de 43 ans, je suis fière de me désigner en tant que fangirl de la série et de me compter parmi lesRead more

DE LA MUSIQUE POUR L’IMAGE: UNE ENTREVUE AVEC LE COMPOSITEUR MICHAEL PRICE

Le 16 avril 2014 par Mary Jo Watts (mid0nz)  (Roxane Périard-Fournier, Traductrice) Michael Price (utilisé avec permission) Ce moment fondamentalement Sherlock. Chaque fois que je vois la scène, je ressens un élan de confusion, un petit frisson sadique. Sherlock Holmes élève son bras et vlan! Sa cravache tranche l’air. Sherlock s’agite et se démène et s’agite. Molly Hooper, son seul témoin, n’a pas plus l’intention de détourner les yeux que nous. Oh, elle grimace un peu quand la cravache entre enRead more

一个镜头，一个故事：与摄影指导 STEVE LAWES 细谈SHERLOCK [A Chinese Translation of My Interview with Cinematographer Steve Lawes]

EACH FRAME TELLS A STORY: AN INTERVIEW WITH CINEMATOGRAPHER STEVE LAWES by Mary Jo Watts (mid0nz) 一个镜头，一个故事：与摄影指导 STEVE LAWES 细谈SHERLOCK —— MARY JO WATTS [TRANSLATED BY: ADRIENNE KENT AND THE SCIENCE OF ARTICULATION] Introduction: I’m hopelessly, obsessively besotted with BBC Sherlock. It’s impossible for me to temper my enthusiasm for Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s modern adaptation. At 43 years old, I’m proud to call myself an unabashed fangirl of the show and to count myself among the millions of othersRead more
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Music to Picture: An Interview with Composer Michael Price

by Mary Jo Watts (mid0nz) That quintessentially Sherlock moment. Every time I see the scene I feel a confusing zap, a wicked little thrill. Sherlock Holmes elevates his arm and whoosh! His riding crop slices the air. Sherlock thrashes and thrashes and thrashes. Molly Hooper, his only witness, has no more intention of averting her eyes than we do. Oh, she winces a bit when the crop makes contact, but not because Sherlock is flogging a corpse. That is incidental.Read more