Linear or Non-Linear?

The opening scene of Fast and Furious 5 contains action, which you would expect to see in the middle of the film, where Dom (one of the main characters) is in a prison bus and his "crew" make the bus flip and help him to escape.


This means that this film follows a NON-LINEAR sequence which means that this doesn't follow a normal pattern (a beginning, middle and end). In this case it goes straight into the action and doesn't start off with an introduction like introducing the characters that where not in the previous Fast and Furious film.

This scene is deliberately set in an isolated location with not many people around so that when the bus is flipped, nobody will know about it for hours. It is lit naturally in open daylight so that the audience can see all of the special effects like skid marks on the road. Dom is clothed in an orange jumpsuit to show the audience that he is going to prison, and his crew are clothed in casual clothes like t-shirts to try and imply how hot the weather is.