Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - Guy Ritchie - Introduction Analysis

Camera – There is a lot of free hand POV shots, used to portray someone from the crowd observing the market stool. There are also slow moving panning shots which show the person moving rounding the crowd to get better look. This shot is clever because being the opening shot, as it gives the audience a sense of reality, engaging them in to feeling like they’re in the crowd. Close ups of the main character are used throughout. Mid shots are used to keep the viewer interested by switching from close ups to mid shots. There is one close up of the product being sold. The other character gets free hand shots but they are always mid shots. There is a low mid shot that tracks around slowly about 20 degrees, people from the crowd are now in shot but never blocking the view of character, this technique is used to show that the crowd is getting larger but still keeping the main focus on the character. A forward tracking shot is used with a 180 degree pan as the characters run past the camera. There is then a long shot with no characters, to start, then one character moves in from the background from the left at great speed and stops abruptly off centre to the right, and then rushes forward towards the camera in to a long body shot, and then the second character enters the shot and stops off centre to the left throwing his items in the air. The main character is standing on higher ground but in the background and the other character is on low ground in the fore ground, this connotes they are both equal in status. The way they are positioned (both off centre) is so that both characters are in the shot and do not block each other out, both characters exit to the right in the foreground.

Titles: Titles are white on black, and the font is un-even and looks like it may have been written by a typewriter. There is then an animated title which says the title of the film in a typewriter one after the other fashion.

Editing: The pace of editing is kept by the digetic sound of the main character talking. There are many cuts between shots. There is a shot in which the video is put in to slow motion.

Sound: The sound is digetic and the dialog is clearly audible over the sound of the crowd. There is non digetic sound in the form of a song. It is a faced paced chase song that starts with a slow base rhythem that fades in slowly and then the lead guitar rips in setting the pace of the next shots. There is then digetic sound of a man with a London accent telling the viewer about the characters.

Mise en Scene: The intro is set in the back of an ally the buildings are grey, there is a large crowd surrounding a cheap market stall where a man is selling moody goods in front of a garage door, the style of the peoples clothes tells us this is set in London. When the chase starts they run round the back of some buildings. Which are also grey.