Our BBC Sherlock

I am also going to ask if someone would be kind enough to help me.

I've only got the bog standard DVDs (and on these ones Sherlock and John are speaking French), hence M.O.L.O.S.S.E. (named after the Molossier dog breed) rather than H.O.U.N.D. [The actual title of the episode in French is of course, 'Les Chiens de Baskerville']



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I have finally done a proper report for the Charlotte Street/Percy Street location in Fitzrovia in London. It comes in two parts, with notes on why I think they used it, a few added comments on the French dubbing for those scenes and advice on how to move actors along footpaths without the general public getting in the way!

Part One is here
Part Two is here

Enjoy!

Yes, I know that I am posting out of sequence, but having just spent the best part of three visits to London on this hunt, and a day this weekend on uploading my photos, creating mapping and screen grabbing like whoa, I wanted a bit of fun before I got into the bath. I will tidy this up and put things in the right order when I get the full collection of reports up.

Tonight's report covers rooftop running and jumping from A Study in Pink, and if I get there, interesting stuff about photos of alleyways on DVD boxes.

Link to my journal

It's getting a bit to chilly to be hanging around outside here in West Smithfield for any length of time, now autumn is upon us, but I had to show you this picture. It's the payphone by the Henry V111 gate at Bart's which does get in shot a time of two ... a place for leaving messages it seems now.



I really must get that article finished this next week. I have plenty of material and the stuff got today should add nicely to what I have already.

I was going to add a rant about security here being a pain, despite me being very polite and trying to build up a rapport over the months (and mention a certain gentleman's name) but I won't. I've done enough, time to move onto the next location.

It seems my excited waffling on about location hunting,  and the odd phenomenon of fans finding their way to Bart's to pay their respects, has gained me some notice. I have been asked to write an article on fandom (and how social media effects it) for a magazine which I have in my library, and Media Studies students use a lot. ...

While this is very exciting I need to get my brains in soak and decide what I am going to write about. What I also need is few people to talk to so I can add their voices to my writing. I suppose I should just go to London again, park myself in front of Pathology and wait (you always get a few people passing on an afternoon at the weekend) but then I had an idea.

I keep asking for fans in the UK within shouting (or even train travel) distance of London to meet up, so I am going try and do that again. I will probably be around next Saturday (the 29th Sept) to spend some time there, and finish up a few (more) locations I need to sort out, but I know that might be a bit short notice. I don't have to send this thing off until the end of November so I could, I suppose, be every hopeful and shedule something in mid-October and throw in some other popular Sherlock locations for good measure.  Is anyone free and would anyone like to join me?

The other problem is if I am going to write an article I need proper facts, and am going to have to contact the producers at some point. Does anyone know of an e-mail address I would send my queries to?

I have been using my summer holidays to do a bit of tidying up of files of photographs and screen grabs in preparation for another round of posting. Before all that, however, I thought an easy access list of all the locations I have already visited might be useful as a reference for everyone.

So here you go, as a sticky in my LJ ...

Title: The Burial of the Dead.
Characters/Pairings: John/Sherlock (still in absentia at this point), Molly, Greg, Mycroft, Mrs Hudson
Rating: PG 13 for swearing
Disclaimer: Certainly don't own the boys (they belong originally to ACD, and their modern incarnations to Messrs Gattis and Moffatt and the BBC) but am borrowing them for a brief moment to play with them. Will return them unharmed.
Summary: After Sherlock jumped of the roof of St Bartholomew's Hospital John Watson realises that, despite his confusion, he has to stop mourning and make sense of everything. Meanwhile Sherlock is doing his best to return to his friends, but he's coming across problems he  didn't reallyexpect he would encounter.
Warnings: (as wisely suggested by natsuko1978) for depression triggers and unhelpful therapists.

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