Guy Ritchie began his career doing odd jobs in film and television before directing music videos and commercials. His short film The Hard Case caught the attention of Sting's wife Trudie Styler, who funded Ritchie's first feature film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998. This film established Ritchie's signature style of fast-paced crime thrillers, but his next two films failed to follow the same successful formula.

1. Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie hit upon a successful formula when directing
his first two films, bringing his unique sense of style and
panache to the crime thriller genre, but then blotted his
copybook when he attempted new things in his following
two movies.
He began as a film runner (an odd jobber on film and TV sets) before trying
his hand at directing music videos, doing “20 videos back to back, really
crappy ones with sort of German rave bands”. This gave him some valuable
experience behind the camera, and he moved on to doing commercials. With
the much-needed grounding, he went on to direct a 20 minute short, ‘The
Hard Case’ (1995), which aired on Channel 4. As it did so, it caught the
attention of Trudie Styler, the wife of singer Sting, and she invested money
into what would become Ritchie’s first feature full-length film, ‘Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels’ (1998).

2. Sherlock Holmes
The protagonist character is introduced in the beginning of
the opening sequence which indicates that he is the main
character of the film. Guy Ritchie has deliberately done this
so the audience can identify that he is the main character.
Guy Ritchie has also made sure that the colours used are to
represent a certain aspect of the film to connote what type
of film it is. The font is also sans serif which might also give
an idea of what type of film it may be. The movement of
the shots are also fairly quick with a 4second pause in
between. The type of shots that are used are mostly close
and medium shots.
The music and sound is used to identify the time period
it was in and what type of film it may be and what may
consist in the film.

3. Snatch
The protagonist character is introduced in the beginning of the
opening sequence which indicates that he is the main character of
the film. Guy Ritchie has deliberately done this so the audience can
identify that he is the main character.
The conversations that are going on in the opening scene also gives
us an idea of what type of film it is. The shot types are also similar
to the other films Guy Ritchie has done as he used medium, long
and close shots. The scenes are also at a similar pace as lock, stock
and two smoking barrels and Sherlock as they last for about
4seconds.
Though snatch has more of action type music playing on the
background instead of calmer music that is played in Sherlock and
lock, stock and two smoking barrels.

4. Lock, stock and two smoking barrels
The protagonist character is introduced in the beginning of
the opening sequence which indicates that he is the main
character of the film. Guy Ritchie has deliberately done this
so the audience can identify that he is the main character.
The scenes also move fast for every 4seconds, the font is
also sans serif which might also give an idea of what type of
film it may be. The speech in the opening sequence is about
money and selling which also may give an enigma code on
what the film is about. There are shot types such as close,
medium and longs shots which establishes the setting but
not yet what city.
What Guy Ritchie has done similar with Sherlock and
snatch is the he introduces the main characters in the
beginning as well as have similar pace of scenes and though
only has the same type of music used with Sherlock.