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Killing Sherlock
Killing Sherlock was a BBC Studios Specialist Factual production for BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, and PBS. Over the course of three episodes, historian Lucy Worsley explores the curious relationship between Holmes and Doyle, tracing the author’s growing disenchantment with his creation and the most famous fictional detective in the World, Sherlock Holmes.
“In this series, historian Lucy Worsley tracks down clues and evaluates the evidence to discover where creator and creation diverged.”
Our design and application for titles and content sequences integrated vintage illustrations from Strand Magazine, archival photography, and historical maps of London within a textural, animated framework to illustrate key moments of Doyle’s life and work.
Visual representations from Holmes’ most famous stories, along with moments from his personal life, had to integrate seamlessly within real-world filmed plates, building up within a scene as Lucy recited key lines quotes. The purpose was to create a sense of emotion from the tone of the stories and Doyle’s life, visually representing his early work, revealing the dark underbelly of late Victorian Britain, from fiction to true crime, to Switzerland and the site of one of the most famous deaths in literature.
“The most curious case of all of them is this love-hate relationship that existed between the great detective and the man who invited him.”
Using a combination of textural elements, transparencies, focal techniques, lighting, and artwork, the graphic styling throughout the series has an in-camera feel, representing Doyle’s mind and thoughts. Taking reference from the use of profile silhouettes of the era, along with the familiar, traditional depiction of Holmes and his most famous literary creations as silhouettes, scenes were built through textural reveals and evolved within the filmed editorial backplate so that narrative was not interrupted.
“Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, has a problem. He’s come to hate the fictional detective that’s brought him and fortune.”
The design spanned the series’ graphic sequences, along with photo montage work using a wealth of unseen imagery from historic archives and books to create a specific in-camera styling with a hand-made and ‘of the time’ visual presence, enhancing the imagery and building a design that has coherency across the series.
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