Layer Cake Opening Sequence

The opening sequence of Layer Cake starts in black and white which shows the time period in which the scene is set. The cinematography at the start of the scene could also represent how "black and white" things were in the time period, this is backed up by Daniel Craig's dialogue when he says "the world was a far simpler place, it was all just cops and robbers". After the opening shot the colour  slowly comes in however, the shot is still very desaturated.
The editing in this sequence is very smooth and fluid, an example of this is the transition between the "Robbery" scene and the "Summer of Love" scene, the camera slowly pans and move really close to a woman's hair creating an extreme close-up. The camera then pans out and the hair has changed to the hair of a hippy. The "Summer of Love" scene is very saturated and it has a very mixed colour palette which makes it much more vibrant and could represent the psychedelic experience that some of the hippies in the scene may have been experiencing. There is also a sepia tint in this scene which makes it look like it is from a different time period and it makes the film look more aged but it doesn't make it look as aged as the black and white footage at the start.
The next part of the opening sequence is set in a prison. This scene has a very limited colour palette which shows how restricted the inmates in the prison are. The limited colour palette is very similar to those from Wes Anderson films.