Analysis of film openings 2.

This opening to the film "This is England" shows images of real British events that occurred at the time that the film is set. This open sequence shows us that the film is going to be political by the video clips that are shown. It tells us that there are going to be issues of race, social groups and violence. The fact that the images are mostly documentary style clips suggests that the film could be in the genre of social realism, as a convention of social realism is to film with naturalistic documentary/hand held-style recording.