Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels title sequence analysis

The sequence shows a man selling stolen goods on the street. We can immediately tell it is London because of the man's accent. The man is giving a talk to try and intice people into buying his goods. It is obviously going to be in quite a run down location because the selling seems to be taking place in some sort of alley. As the man talks it switches from him to titles. As the titles are on screen we can still hear the man talking. The sound is diagetic throughout the sequence. As for non-diagetic sound we can hear a song in the background gradually getting louder. This builds tension in the audience and let's us now that this sequence is building up to some sort of climaxe. The man's accomplice then tells him the police are here and they both start to run away. And this point the music is playing loudly as part of the chase. As the two men run down stairs it goes into slow motion and a voice over starts to introduce the first man. It then goes back into full speed for a brief second before the other man appears and throws his suitcase. It then goes into slow motion again and introduces this man. After the title of the film appears as if it is being typed. I thought the idea for introducing characters was very good. It sort of gave the same feeling you get when you meet a new character in a book and i really liked it. I also like the idea of slowing down or pausing the clip to introduce the character. I also like the idea of music slowly building up and the bursting in for some sort of climaxe. I think these are two ideas we will defintely consider for our sequence.