Sherlock Holmes

The genre of this film is historical action and adventure.  The film is in the historical genre because it is based in Victorian London.  The film creates the spectacle of the world of Victorian London in 1891 through its location shots of an old London, all the buildings are old buildings that are still up in London.  Another way that I could tell it was Victorian London was from the fact that the streets of London where light by gas lamps.  A third way of telling that it is Victorian London is that the police and Watson are in a carriage being pulled by horses instead of in fast cars which would be in films based now.  The shot of Saint Paul's cathedral anchors the location as London because it is a monument that I would automatically make me think of London

The camerawork shows that the scene contains speed and motion because the carriages are moving quickly being pulled by the horse's and there is a quickly moving London behind Holmes to show that he is trying to get somewhere fast.  One of the shots that is used is showing how bumpy it is inside one of the carriages because the camera is jumping up and down and juddering, it is probably being held in someones hands instead of a tripod because if it was on a tripod it would be still where as in someones hands it will move with them.

Now on to the editing of this extract.  In this extract from the film we see in to Holmes' thoughts where he is thinking about how to take down one of the men working for the villain of the film.  It is done in slow mo so we can see every last detail of what he does then it is also shown in real time so we can see how he does it. 

The sound at the beginning of the extract is another way of telling that it is based in Victorian London because there is the sound of horse shoes on cobblestone and the sound of wooden wheels turning and rolling over cobblestone roads.  The music in the extract is quite fast this helps build up the tension when Holmes is running.  It probably makes the audience think will he get there in time to rescue the girl and stop lord blackwood or will the Lord succeed.