Sherlock Series 1 Ep 3 The Great Game

Identify those narrative elements contained within this episode?

The great game follows the 3 act structure being the set up- the audience establishing that sherlock is desperate for a case, the development sherlock gets two cases, the resolution- the cases are solved.In this episode the main enigma is solved Who is Moriarty? we are shown him at the very end and suddenly everything makes sense.
This episode also has many lines of action there is one main case being the people strapped with bombs and Moriarty being the person behind it but also there is the man with the missile plans who jumped the train tracks as well as the gallery man found at sea.All of these cases however are related to Moriarty, the man who jumped the tracks being the distraction as Moriarty knew sherlock wouldn't be interested in a case from his brother, setting up other cases for him whilst he solved the case as he wanted the missile plans or so it seemed. I don't think the theory of TODOROV could be applied to this episode because it is left as a cliffhanger and with more enigmas a raised. Did sherlock shoot the bomb?

Identify those elements developed from episode 1 STUDY IN PINK?

The study in pink also follows the 3 act structure the setup being the introduction to Dr Watson the development being the case and the resolution being the conclusion to what happened to these people. However in this episode the enigma of who is Moriarty is first started but to sherlock old fans they are already informed who Moriarty is Moriarty being Sherlocks arch enemy. I could also say that the TODOROV theory could be applied to this episode as equilibrium is resolved at the end that being the case is solved. This episode follows a slightly non linear make up as in the setup we are shown flashbacks to days in afghanistan supposed to be John Watsons dreams, we are also showed flashbacks to what the people were doing before they died and they all seem to be taking this strange pill.

Research Proposal

The title for my research project is going to be 'Do Music Videos need a strong Narrative in order to be successful? In order to explore this investigation I will use the following music videos as media texts that will form the focus of my investigation. 'Kanye West- All falls down' and 'Drake hold on we're going home'. Both videos are very different in the narrative, which is why I decided to pick these two; Drake has a very clear story-like narrative in perfect Harmony with the track whilst Kanye's narrative in his music video is almost random in contrast to his song.

The Song by Kanye West features a famous actress Syleena Johnson. The song itself in its lyrical form is about how no one really knows what they want to achieve life, some people are influenced by parents to do degrees but in the end it doesn't amount to anything, He is basically criticizing people for not having a passion.

Within the video however the narrative is based around Kanye following the actress Syleena Johnson to the airport where by he is rapping as in some shots he appears in front of the camera whilst others he appears to be holding it.

The video itself is well put together, the airport looks realistic which wouldn't of been possible without the various security checks and various terminals and staff, Towards the end of the video a iconic face appeared it was Common [a highly recognized hip hop artist] so for him to be included was kind of attracting three audiences fans of Syleena, Kanye's and Commons.

There are also quite a few smart editing skills used such as the effect being used enabling kanye to show on the outside of Syleena's glasses, there was also a x-ray effect where kanye was supposedly put through the x-ray conveyor belt. There is also various scenes where we see Kanye through mirrors or car windows but when we see him he doesn't appear to be holding a camera so to connotate what we are seeing is from Kanye’s eyes.

At the start of this video we have Syleena in the taxi waiting to get to the airport then by the bridge of the song we have Kanye in the bathroom rapping but not as high quality sound as before, Then by the end of the song we have Kanye back in the taxi looking at the open roof top as the aero plane flies away.

 My hunches are that in this investigation I'm going to find out that the answer to my question is no, It doesn't matter how a narrative is structured or how clear the storyline is as long as the music video or even the music track attracts attention from the audience it is still effective. I’m worried that the answer is too obvious but hopefully with my gathering of sources I can prolong a argument and somehow make my question unanswerable.

To support my research I'm going to use information from a book by Carol Verrallis called Experiencing Music video, a book by Kevin Williams called Why I still want my MTV, a Book called Exploring the Media by Christine Bell, an Extract from the magazine Media magazine and http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/issue08/heidipeeters.htm website.

Out of all of these I would say that the books would be the most reliable sources as these would of have to have been cross referenced for any mistakes by various other peers before publishing and if inaccurate information in inside one of these books [unless its fiction] then that could have serious consequences for the publishing company.

The Hampton press publishing company published for Example the book why I still want my MTV in 2003. Although the book maybe out of date slightly I'm positive some of the terms still remain now. Hampton press is a well-established publishing company that varies in publishing books to monographs to journals. Currently, Hampton press has a backlist of over 400 titles and publishes 35-40 new books annually; therefore I would say that this book is a very reliable source. This is my Proposal.