Shot By Shot Analysis of Harry Brown

Here is the opening of the film Harry Brown.
It can be argued that there are not many camera shots in this opening as the effect used is that the boys in the film are videoing it themselves.

Firstly we see a gang of boys pressuring one of the peers into doing drugs.
The first shot is a medium close up as it is half way bewtween a mid shot and a close up.
It is also an over the shoulder shot as we look over the shoulder of prehaps the "leader" of the gang. I believe this makes you understand the intimidation of the gang.
These shots are maintained through the first part of the opening as they hand the gun over to the boy.
The screen goes blank and then turns to a close up of the young boy on a motorbike. There are then wide shots of their surroundings, i.e. flats, the park. It is a point of view shot as we are seeing everything through the perspective of the gang member.
It then zooms out to a very wide shot of the park on the estate (still p.o.v shot) and we see a mother pushing a pram infront us.
Keeping a wide shot, they begin to circle the mother and fire shots at her. They are simply trying to scare her but end up actually shooting her. As this occurs a very wide shot is used and the picture is still.
As the boys drive off (p.o.v) there is an extreme close up of the ground as the shot zooms out and tilts up, there is an extreme close up of an on coming van.
The boys are hit and the shot zooms out and finishes with a wide shot and cutaway shot. The camera is at ground level and the scene ends.