Research: Fast and Furious 5

The opening of Fast and Furious 5 starts with a long shot of a bus traveling down an empty road in the desert. Suddenly it cuts to another long shot this time from behind the prison bus. This gives the views the setting and time of the scene. While the camera is still focusing on the the bus from nowhere 3 black cars come from behind the camera and the focus changes to the black cars. The incidental music then starts a something big is going to happen. It then cuts to many interior closeups on the drivers faces and also the faces of the prison inmates in the bus. This creates a sense of intensity coming from the drivers and a sense of confusion of the prisoners as they have no clue what is even happening. lots of digetic sound of engine noises and tires screeching are played throughout the entire scene. This emphasizes the power that these cars are putting down and the speed they are travelling in order to pursue the bus. A tracking shot of one of the cars occurs as it moves up way in front of the bus. It then cuts to a point of view shot from the bus drivers perspective, as the car stops in front and cause the bus to ram into the back of it, it flips over. as the bus is continuously flipping it switches to an aerial shot from a drone that pans around the crash. Not much of the story is produced in the opening scene at all. it looks to me that the whole purpose of the first scene is just to catch the eye of the viewer. I mean who doesn't like to watch a bunch of fast cars cause a huge bus to flip over 5 plus times. Fast and furious 5 had a budget of 125 million dollars in order to shoot it perfectly. it made a total of 626.1 million in the box office. They met and exceeded all of the goals they set in terms of revenue from the movie.