My thesis covers the thought process and justification of the choices made during the formal construction of the filmic image of the film No Shit, Sherlock.
The film No Shit, Sherlock is a tragicomic satire with elements of the detective genre thematizing the banal and insular antagonism of people in social bubbles.
While creating the film I paid special attention to the formal construction of the filmic image. Based on the genre and historical connotations, the iconographical implications of a narrower format that appears more boxed in and isolated, and because of certain practical reasons I shot the film in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio; I shot it almost exclusively on wide-angle lenses that presented the stereotypical characters in a caricature-esque image; and I amplified the hectic nature of the story with deliberate editing and the usage of varying shot lengths. While constructing the filmic image I took care no decision was made arbitrarily but instead had both practical and iconographical reasons based in the history of film.
The purpose of my thesis is therefore creating a convincing syuzhet that deliberately serves the content of the socially critical fabula from a formal visual standpoint.
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