In the opening scene of lock stock and two smoking barrels, character X is selling stolen goods accompanied by his friend, on a street corner in a run down community, untill inturupted by two policemen and a chase begins leading into the end of the sequence im studying.
The first shot in this scene is of text with white lettering reading 'summit entertainment' in an old typewriter font, accompanied by a black background. This immediatley gives the audience a glimpse of its genre-crime.The second shot is a medium shot of character X selling his stolen goods to potential buyers gathering around. The camera is zooming towards character X while he is speaking, giving the audience the impression that he is one of the main characters in this scene. The metal shutter shown behind character X indicates that this area is run down and the thick over coat he is wearing gives the impression that it is cold.
It then cuts to a close up of character X speaking about some products he's trying to sell to the crowd, which is followed by another shot of white lettering in type writer font with a black background saying 'the steve tisch company' this furthermore clarifies the genre of the film - crime. It then cuts back to the close up of character X and a shot zooming out from him which takes the attention away from him gradually while the camera is still focused on him.
The next shot is yet another shot of white text in a type writer font with a plain black background, this time reading 'ska films' followed by yet another close up of character X, this time holding a long gold chain trying to persuade people to buy his stolen goods. The same type writer font with the black background is then used again this time saying 'presents', which hooks the audiences attention as it doesn't give any information away as it builds up towards the title.
Shot reverse shot is then used in when it cuts to a mid shot of character X talking about the stolen product he's holding, and then a mid shot of his friend coming forward from the crowd and accepting his offer, although the audience does not know they know each other at this time; followed by a close up of character X again.
Yet again the white type writer font with the black background is used next, this time saying 'a matthew vaughn production'. This is followed by a mid-shot of character X with some of the crowd in the shot; character X is quickly bagging his products and selling them. This is followed by a mid shot of his friend looking at something off screen to the left and then a close up of character X again talking to his customers. The next shot is another shot of introducing credits using the same font this time reading 'a guy ritchie film' immediately accompanied by the start of a jumpy high energy song which conotates to the audience that something exiting is about to happen. This then leads into another shot of character X bagging up his products and selling them.
The next shot is a medium close up of his friend followed by a medium close of him, yet again showing that there is some sort of relationship between them although they are trying to cover it up. In the next shot the camera is to the right of character X strafing further to the right with one of the crowds head in the way, while character X puts a product in a plastic bag. While the song picks up the pase a medium close up shot of character X's friend comes forward again this time shouting at him in panic incinuating that police are coming, the fact that he uses character X's name/nickname 'Bacon' shows that they know each other.
The following shot is of character X packing his stuff away in a hurry followed by a close up of the products getting thrown quickly into a suitcase. The next shot is a mid shot of character X and his friend running off camera to the left, with two policemen appearing from the right hand side of the screen running after them and disappearing off to the left as well. This is all in one shot. The policemen are wearing traditional london police costumes which further confirms the setting and clearly differs them from the rest of the characters.
For the next shot the camera is already around the corner looking at the friend followed by character X running around it and towards the camera. As they run towards the camera it tracks backwards and follows them running past the cameras right hand side. It follows them as they hop a fence and run off but stays there as the policemen do the same.
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