New Vid: Sherlock BBC - Anomie

[charmax]

Video Title: Anomie
Song Title/Artist: People Are Strange - Infected Mushroom Remix
Source: Sherlock BBC
Summary: A faceless city where everyone is a stranger.
Length/Format: 03:12, (Xvid, Stream)
Notes: Spoilers for all eps season 1.

Anomie: Term coined by Emile Durkheim refers to a breakdown of social norms. A condition where norms no longer control the activities of members in society. Individuals cannot find their place in society without clear rules to help guide them. Changing conditions lead to dissatisfaction, conflict, and deviance. He observed that social periods of disruption (economic depression, for instance) brought about greater anomie and higher rates of crime, suicide, and deviance.

Durkheim felt that sudden change caused a state of anomie. The system breaks down, either during a great prosperity or a great depression, anomie is the same result.

Warnings: None.

Links: Download Xvid 50MB | Stream@Youtube | Stream@Bam

Feedback in all shapes and sizes much appreciated.

Comments

[revolutionaryjo]

What a cool concept for a vid! I love that the focus is on the side characters. Fantastic editing, as always. :)

[charmax]

Thank you! I found it really interesting to focus on the secondary characters.

[talitha78]

Awesome! I love how London becomes as much of a character as Sherlock and John.

[charmax]

Thanks! I love how integral London is to this show just as it was in the original stories. The city really does become a character in its own right.

[lim]

This is completely brilliant.

[charmax]

Oh, I'm thrilled you think so. Cheers for the rec.

[cesperanza]

I really liked this! The structure is really terrific, and I love the way Watson doesn't appear - or barely appears, appears unmarked - until the end, almost as if suggesting as if Watson's going to change Sherlock's strange relationship to the strange world he inhabits; at the very least, he's much less alone, now. *g* I also like the way you've adopted this omnicient POV to give us a Sherlock's Eye View of London. Great vid!

[charmax]

Glad you enjoyed it. I loved using Watson towards the end as the man who literally sets Sherlock and his world spinning.

Also, thanks for the rec.

[the_future_modernes]

This is absolutely FANTASTIC!

[charmax]

Yay, many thanks!

[giandujakiss]

This is incredibly gorgeous, I was like, holding my breath throughout the whole thing. I love the little ways you emphasized the beats with even small cuts or perfectly timed motion.

[charmax]

The song had such great musical cues to work with, I couldn't possibly ignore them. It did force me to stretch myself a bit which is never a bad thing.

Thank you so much for the comment and the rec.

Here via cesperanza's rec

[brewsternorth]

Brilliant! And to add what other people have said, you've really brought out some of the best bits of the cinematography in highlighting the city and characters.

Re: Here via cesperanza's rec

[charmax]

The whole style of Sherlock is such a breath of fresh air. The footage is pure joy to work with and I had a great time going over it frame by frame. I'm such a geek!

[lamardeuse]

Oh, wow. This is mind-blowing, as always with your awesome work.

[charmax]

Cheers!

[laurie_ky]

Ooh, very cool and shiny. I've heard about this show, but this is the first video I've seen. I'm intrigued, and I love the music you picked.

Laurie

[charmax]

It's a great show everyone should be watching it. sherlockbbc is a hive of activity if you want to check out more vids.

[bethbethbeth]

Here via Ces's rec...

Fantastically well done, particularly the timing. *applauds*

[charmax]

Thank you SO much.

[distorquere]

Also here from Cesperanza's rec. This vid is amazing! I have nothing constructive to say, but I will repeat what others have said: the timings are perfect, the focus of the vid is original and very well done, and I love the ending - Sherlock and John bumping into each other. I will definitely watch again. Thank you!

[charmax]

What a lovely comment! Glad you found the concept interesting. I was worried there for a while that it wouldn't make sense to anyone but me.

[embroiderama]

Wow, gorgeous!

[charmax]

Thanks!

[potted_music]

This is amazing.

[charmax]

Cheers!

[pulangaraw]

Wow. This is amazing!

[charmax]

Glad you think so. Thank you!

[missmollyetc]

I really enjoyed this! I love the way you've mirrored the reimagining of the Holmes canon with the remix of "People are Strange," and focusing not simply on Sherlock himself, but London and the people in it and how those are factors not only in Sherlock himself, but the city and her people as separate entities. Great build up to the moments of Sherlock deciphering, and the introduction of John as a not-so-stabilizing factor. Thank you!

[charmax]

The remix is so important to this vid. I love how different and yet true to the original it sounds, as you say it marries nicely with the Sherlock reinvention. I really enjoyed using Watson as a unnerving catalyst rather than a calm narrator.

Thanks so much for commenting.

[innocentsmith]

Man, this is incredible. I love the lost, dangerous, chaotic world London is in this vid (and, indeed, the series, now that you've made me think about it). Which really must have been true of London in the 1890s, too - the end of empire, the dawn of the 20th century, Jack the Ripper, etc. etc. And then Sherlock and Dr. Watson as, first, expressions of that brokenness in culture and then a focused force within it. Awesome.

Um, also the editing was very very shiny and neat. Just amazingly cool.

[charmax]

I love that about the show, the way you can read these parallels between the late 19th century and the present. Wars in Afghanistan, economic depression, distrust of immigrants it's all there, then as now.

Glad you enjoyed it.

[bluemeridian]

Oh brilliant! I kept thinking "we're all strange, aren't we?"

[charmax]

Thanks, I guess we are. :)

[copracat]

Oh excellent. I love the way your editing and song choice present all the characters as compromised. They might all be victims, they might all be evildoers. It's a beautiful and complex retelling.

[charmax]

The show has such a sense of menace at times, murderers might be hiding in every shadow. I really enjoyed utilising that.

Thanks for commenting.

[jadey]

Fantastic! BBC ought to hire you to do their promotional videos for the new series. :) The music choice was smashing, the editing stellar, and the last shot capped it off perfectly - all that strangeness and chaos, and these two at the centre of it. Brilliant.

[charmax]

Haha! What a lovely thing to say! The BBC does a fine job on its promos these days so I'm very flattered.

[mresundance]

Very nice. The editing was very smooth and slick.

[charmax]

Thanks, glad you think so.

[foursweatervests]

That was fantastic. I'm having a hard time quantifying exactly how fantastic it was; I'm lost for words. Editing, concept, follow-through...yeah. Fantastic.

[charmax]

Fantastic works for me, thanks.

[sprat]

I wish it wasn't late enough to have stolen all my coherence away. But it is. So I'll just tell you I loved this very much and leave it at that. <3

[charmax]

And I'll just say thank you and leave it at that. :D

[meelie]

Great vid!

[charmax]

Thanks!

[stultiloquentia]

When I finally break and start making vids of my own, I'm going to come back and stare at this one twenty more times in a row to try and learn from it, because it's brilliant. I love how lucid it is without sacrificing complexity, and the way it builds, and that final shot, god. *clap clap clap*

[charmax]

Thank you very much for the huge compliment. Once you start vidding you never watch shows the same way again, which is a good thing, usually.

[mlyn]

What a fantastic title, and fits Sherlock perfectly. As always, your use of color and motion are masterful. Thanks for sharing!

[charmax]

Thanks! More effort than I care to admit went into getting the title right.