vid for gardnerhill: Something Good (Will Come From That)

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Title: Something Good (Will Come From That)
Recipient: gardnerhill
Author: sanguinity
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson; Holmes/Watson
Rating: General
Summary: One hundred years of moving pictures about Holmes and Watson.
Author Notes:

My deepest thanks to my collaborator and source-monkey, k_e_p, without whom this would have required twice the work and been half as

Comments

[sanguinity]

Oh, minor in Sesame Street terms, sure, but the show has been running for decades: it still amounts to a couple-dozen segments, far more footage than some things in the vid. (For comparison, the book-trailer for Study in Charlotte is two and a half minutes long; the trailer for the Brazillian play 221B Baker Street is similarly scant. 221B Baker Towers doesn't have any source material; it's all fancasting from other films and such.) The bigger challenges with Sherlock Hemlock was how often he didn't have a Watson, how low-quality a lot of the available source is, and how affectless puppets tend to be when you remove the soundtrack.

And thank you! There were actually two of us looking for stuff for the vid: k_e_p watched a ton of stuff for me, making notes about where the good moments were. And it helped considerably that all of these adapts are drawing on the same source material, however loosely some might be doing it: they collectively spend a decent chunk of time on cross-talk, homages to each other, and their own reinterpretations of classic holmes/watson-y moments. When it came time to build the vid proper, I had a deep stack of notes to draw upon.

I'm very pleased with the way it came out, and it has been a great satisfaction to see everyone else enjoying it so well, too. :-D