Analysis of film openings.

This is the opening sequence of Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996).

From the begginning of this sequence you can tell that it is a social realist drama, this is because of the mise-en-scene; the clothes that the characters are wearing are plain and old, whilst they are running, (from what looks like the police) stolen possesions are falling from them.
we can also see that it is a social realist drama becasue of the use of drugs and there views on there own lifes. For example they use Class A drugs without hesitation and the film focuses on the consequences of drug taking, something a mainstream Hollywood film would not focus on.
There is little or no editing (Fades, Dissolves) in the sequence which is typical to social realist dramas as they aim to be simplistic.
The lighting is naturalistic which is a convention of social realism films which shows us that the film will be in this genre.