Breaking bad pilot analysis

The episode starts with several establishing shots of the desert landscape in New Mexico. This shows the spectator where the show is set and the desert becomes a place where many of the major events take place. After the establishing shot we see a shot of the sky, we then see a pair of trousers fly across the screen. At first this is very surprising to the spectator and quite comical. The camera follows the trajectory of the pair of trousers. When the trousers hit the ground the pace of the scene speeds up as we see an RV run over the pair of trousers on the ground. The next shot is from inside the RV where we can see a man wearing only his underwear and a gas mask driving the RV erratically. He is sitting next to another man wearing a gas mask but he looks as though he is unconscious. The next shot is from inside the RV which shows a lot of chemistry equipment, liquid and two dead men rolling around on the floor. The man driving the RV soon loses control of vehicle and crashes it into a rock. The man gets out of the RV and throws his gas mask away. He then proceeds to put on a green shirt which was hanging o n the wing mirror of the RV the whole time. The man runs back into the RV and picks up a handgun and a camera. At this point in the episode the spectator has very little knowledge of what is actually happening. This is because the makers of the show have decided to show a part from the end of the episode in the opening. This gives the spectator something to look forward to in the show; it means that they are more likely to continue watching the show as there is a lot of energy and excitement right from the start. As the man steps out of the RV we start to hear police sirens getting louder and louder which makes us think that this man has been involved in some kind of criminal activity. The man then takes the camera and films himself; he tells the camera his name and proceeds to tell his family that he loves them and explains that he is morally innocent of any crimes he has committed. The opening sequence ends with a shot of the man walking into the middle of a dirt road pointing a gun towards the sound of the oncoming sirens. This opening leaves the spectator thinking that the man is going to shoot at the police which would be an exciting and climactic ending, this is a reason for the audience to continue watching the show.