our_bbcsherlock | Some strange Sherlockian statistics about The Jump Off Bart's

Ok, so I think I know why I started working this out ... but then it morphed into something slightly different.

Let me explain. I am being a little Autistic today - for a perfectly normal hormonal reason. I'm getting a bit frustrated when (purely because of the way a scene is shot) editing keeps jumping back and forth between different viewpoints and quite obviously moves around where an actor is standing / looking .

All that choppiness means different takes, and breaks in sequences, and breaks in the actor's emotional continuity through parts of a scene. I saw too much live theatre in my earlier life, and perhaps that has got me hooked on that sort of thing.

They way this continuity gets mucked up annoys me sometimes because I can SEE it. Especially when I am hormonal and like I am at the moment. If you watch as closely as I do you can, for example, see someone get slightly upset, and then even more upset, then be absolutely wretched, and then[oh Goddess no!] back to not particularly upset as it was an earlier take and the actor hadn't got their bawling up steam at that point.

I was doing this analysis to the stuff on the roofs at Bart's [excuse me being pedantic, but -- British Irony alert --they did move people around up there] to try and track down specifics in Cumberbatchian sniffle levels. Our actor is a very capable lad in that field, and I was interested to find out which shots he was using his talent mostly in.

There is probably some open source software you can use to draw up shooting scripts, and something for story boarding as well. I just used MS word, a table and some highlighting to get the stats. If anyone wants a copy please PM me and I will talk about getting a copy to you.

Now the cold, hard, statistics

In just over three minutes on screen they had 46 different filmed segments, using 7 Different camera placements + some odd bits with John moving round the Ambulance Station / dead Moriarty on the Infill roof.

The seven camera locations where:
[1] Sherlock + St Sepulchre / The Infill Ledge (3)
[2] Sherlock on the Infill / + St Pauls (8)
[3] Sherlock on the Infill / + Aldersgate (7)
[4] Behind Sherlock, standing on Infill ledge (2)
[5] Behind Sherlock, on Pathology ledge, looking down (6)
[6] Behind John, in Roadway, looking up at Sherlock on Pathology (5)
[7] John, from front, in Roadway, looking up at Pathology / Infill (15)

Sherlock gets 3+8+7+20+6 = (26 segments on screen)
John gets 5+15= (20 segments)

Sherlock was on the Infill (20) and Pathology (6)
John was in the roadway only but got tracked about a bit, and then shot either from behind (5) or in front (15)

Oh, and the answer to when Sherlock gets the most sniffly, it's when 200 Aldersgate is behind him, but even that seems to be chopped about a bit in order of level.