Storyline
None of the story line is shown in this opening sequence, Just history of the time that the film is set around. It shows some of the Falkland’s war which the boy in the films dad dies in and some general 80’s history to set the scene of the times. Margret thatcher’s also shown a lot in the opening sequence which shows that it’s going to have a political theme.
The enigma codes
What do these images have to do with the rest of the film?
There aren’t any main characters in the opening sequence but there is a collage of scenes important people and events from the time that the films set. Margret thatcher appears a lot in the scene, Rowland rat who was a popular TV character of the time appears at the beginning, people who were on the miners’ strike appear and there are people who fought in the Falkland’s war
Mise-en-scene
The footage of the film is mainly just short 6 second clips of things from the time so the Mise en scene would just be the fashions of the time like punk for example. So everything is very stereotypical of the 80’s.
The cinematography of the start of the film is all very simple since it’s all just chopped pieces of film there are a lot of close-ups to show the different people in the footage.
Editing
There are lots of cuts between the film footage to show that the social realism is very simple and they wouldn’t have had lots of editing software in the 80’s so it is all very simple
The music for the opening sequence is ‘54 46 that’s my number by Toots and the Maytals’ which was a classic 80’s song. This is the only sound featured in the sequence there is no sound from the film clips
The titles appear in-between bits of film in white on a black background which make them stand out a lot then going into the same font over the top of the clips.
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