The narration at the start of the film strongly indicates the genre. The camera pans over thousands of bullets spread across the ground of a run down area, and the narrator speaks about illegal gun trade. Therefore from the opening sequence we can draw the conclusion that it is a crime/war film. The target audience for this film is probably adults because it is centred around current affairs and fairly complex ideas, while films that target younger viewers are usually fictional.
In this opening sequence, the audience is taken through the process of making and transporting bullets, and it is shot from the point of view of a bullet. It begins in a factory, and ends up in what looks like an African setting where it is used to kill a young man in a conflict. The choice of music for the scene is unusual as it is calm and does not suit the tone of a conflict, and it is done to add to the tragedy of the scene - this is sometimes referred to as 'soundtrack dissonance'.
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