{"id":173490,"date":"2015-01-06T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/221beemine-ive-pondered-this-shot-since-tsot\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:00:08","slug":"221beemine-ive-pondered-this-shot-since-tsot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/221beemine-ive-pondered-this-shot-since-tsot\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-173490 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/221beemine-ive-pondered-this-shot-since-tsot\/attachment\/173491\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n496r2Kh0o1t3gk3ko1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n496r2Kh0o1t3gk3ko1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n496r2Kh0o1t3gk3ko1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/221beemine.tumblr.com\/post\/83151679294\/ive-pondered-this-shot-since-tsot-aired-i-kept\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">221beemine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve pondered this shot since TSOT aired. I kept wondering why we were shown the hug from this angle. At first I thought it had to do with John\u2019s private nature, especially his private feelings about Sherlock: so private he can\u2019t admit them to his therapist after Sherlock\u2019s \u201cdeath,\u201d so private he makes sure Mrs. Hudson\u2019s not watching before he touches Sherlock\u2019s headstone. Here, he hides his face behind Sherlock\u2019s before hugging him, and we get a private glimpse of his face full of adoration for his friend, but the guests do not.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized I had it backward. This shot isn\u2019t about John hiding his face from the guests. When I don\u2019t know how to understand a choice of cinematography, I usually think \u201cWhat would <em>I<\/em> have meant by that choice?\u201d And I realized that my wedding photography experience could indeed answer this question. It took me a long time to come up with because I don\u2019t usually go behind the altar during the wedding ceremony, but I have done it enough to know that this is the <em>kiss shot<\/em>. This is the shot I do when the couple kiss. It\u2019s one of the most important photographs to get of the wedding day; couples always, always request it. The usual way to do it is from the perspective of the guests, from the angle that most of Sherlock\u2019s speech is filmed in TSOT, but this is a foreground-background connection: this is the shot I do when I want to show that the couple are celebrating their love <em>in front of everyone they know<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what this shot is. It\u2019s John showing how much he cares about Sherlock, in front of God and congregation, in front of and family and friends. Just because his face is hidden doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not demonstrating his feelings for all to see, here, for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; gif by winxcest<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>221beemine: I\u2019ve pondered this shot since TSOT aired. I kept wondering why we were shown the hug from this angle. At first I thought it had to do with John\u2019s private nature, especially his private feelings about Sherlock: so private he can\u2019t admit them to his therapist after Sherlock\u2019s \u201cdeath,\u201d so private he makes sure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/221beemine-ive-pondered-this-shot-since-tsot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129,1810,405,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173492,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173490\/revisions\/173492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}