Layer Cake Analysis

This opening scene has a few techniques that we can use in our opening scene. The main technique from this clip is the monologue that is playing over the clips, this could be used in our opening as it creates a special link/bond between the character and the audience which makes the audience feel more involved in the film as you know more about the main character than other characters in the film which makes the audience feel as part of the the main character.

Another technique is when Daniel Craig is walking through the pharmacy and all the products on the shelves are changing as he walks past them to show a change in time which also links in with his monologue. This technique could be effective as it can show we have a extremely good use of continuity editing and it can be combined with the pleasantville effect towards the end of the clip so colour gradualy comes back to bottles and products one by one to show the scene changing from the past (flashback) to the present.