Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie hit upon a successful formula when directing his first two films, bringing his unique sense of style and panache to the crime thriller genre, but then blotted his copybook when he attempted new things in his following two movies.

He began as a film runner (an odd jobber on film and TV sets) before trying his hand at directing music videos, doing “20 videos back to back, really crappy ones with sort of German rave bands”. This gave him some valuable experience behind the camera, and he moved on to doing commercials. With the much-needed grounding, he went on to direct a 20 minute short, ‘The Hard Case’ (1995), which aired on Channel 4. As it did so, it caught the attention of Trudie Styler, the wife of singer Sting, and she invested money into what would become Ritchie’s first feature full-length film, ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ (1998).

Sherlock Holmes

The music and sound is used to identify the time period it was in and what type of film it may be and what may consist in the film.

The protagonist character is introduced in the beginning of the opening sequence which indicates that he is the main character of the film. Guy Ritchie has deliberately done this so the audience can identify that he is the main character.

Guy Ritchie has also made sure that the colours used are to represent a certain aspect of the film to connote what type of film it is. The font is also sans serif which might also give an idea of what type of film it may be. The movement of the shots are also fairly quick with a 4second pause in between. The type of shots that are used are mostly close and medium shots.

SnatchThe protagonist character is introduced in the beginning of the opening sequence which indicates that he is the main character of the film. Guy Ritchie has deliberately done this so the audience can identify that he is the main character.

The conversations that are going on in the opening scene also gives us an idea of what type of film it is. The shot types are also similar to the other films Guy Ritchie has done as he used medium, long and close shots. The scenes are also at a similar pace as lock, stock and two smoking barrels and Sherlock as they last for about 4seconds.

Though snatch has more of action type music playing on the background instead of calmer music that is played in Sherlock and lock, stock and two smoking barrels.

Lock, stock and two smoking barrelsThe protagonist character is introduced in the beginning of the opening sequence which indicates that he is the main character of the film. Guy Ritchie has deliberately done this so the audience can identify that he is the main character.

The scenes also move fast for every 4seconds, the font is also sans serif which might also give an idea of what type of film it may be. The speech in the opening sequence is about money and selling which also may give an enigma code on what the film is about. There are shot types such as close, medium and longs shots which establishes the setting but not yet what city .

What Guy Ritchie has done similar with Sherlock and snatch is the he introduces the main characters in the beginning as well as have similar pace of scenes and though only has the same type of music used with Sherlock.