Sherlock Jr. Camera Angle

Sherlock Jr.

 In regards to camera angle, motion, and overall construction of the scenes in the film, I enjoyed the part when Sherlock is running through the street when he then comes into contact with a policeman on a bike that gives him a lift.  From there it gets pretty entertaining.  The shots that they got while he was driving the bike were very impressive in my eyes.  So now lets dissect how they went about these scenes.  The first we see of Sherlock he is running from the bad guys in a long shot with a tracking motion backwards while they have a shot of Jr. running at them. Then a side angle of the policeman on a medium close up but it is fixed to his bike and the background doesn’t match with the speed and motion of the bike.  Then we are presented with an establishing shot of the bad guys getting into their car so we can expect that they will be the next people we see following Sherlock.  Back to Sherlock on the bike now, he is casually talking to the policeman as they motor along running from the bad guys.  Using a medium close up we can see that they are still in front of a screen that’s playing a scene in the background with the motor cycle still next to it.  After that we see a stationary shot of the two driving along through a puddle of water that kicks off the policeman and leaves Sherlock to drive away from the stranded man without knowing that he as just lost him.  Then we cut to a medium close up of Sherlock moving away from the fallen officer to him flying through traffic and a picnic.  All of these shots of Sherlock barreling through trafficker taken from a stationary point probably shot this way to mimic what a bystander would be witnessing.