case study 2 breaking bad

case study 2 breaking bad

 

 

BREAKING BAD – Series 4, Episode 12 ‘Face Off, October 2011, Thriller, Director: Vince Gilligan

 

When chemistry teacher, Walter White, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given only two years to live, he decides he has nothing to lose. He lives with his wife and teenage son, who has cerebral palsy, in New Mexico. Determined to ensure that his family will have a secure future, White embarks on a career of drugs and crime. He proves to be remarkably proficient in this new world as he begins manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with one of his former students. The series tracks the impacts of a fatal diagnosis on a regular hard working man and explores how a fatal diagnosis affects his morality and transforms him into a major player of the drug trade.

 
This episode is called face off and the plot in the episode is after failing to kill Gus via car bomb, Walter  removes the bomb and asks Jesse if he knows of a place that Gus frequents that does not have security cameras. Before Jesse can think, he is approached by Detectives Kalanchoe and Munn and taken to the police station, where they proceed to question him about his knowledge of Brock's ricin poisoning.Jesse is interrogated for a long time about the ricin, but he claims that it was a lucky guess. Having been contacted by Walter, Saul finally arrives. Jesse tells Saul that Gus often visits Hector to taunt him, which Saul relays to Walter. Upon learning that he and Gus are long time enemies, Walter visits Hector and offers him a chance to kill Gus. Hector contacts the DEA, where he insists on talking directly to Hank but he just curses at Hank through his interpreter and is quickly brought back to the nursing home.Tyrus inspects Hector's room for anything suspicious but finds it safe for Gus' visit, failing to spot Walter just outside. Jesse is released from police custody after Brock's diagnosis reveals that he was not poisoned by ricin, and is immediately kidnapped by Gus' thugs and brought to the lab to cook the next batch of meth.Gus and Tyrus corner Hector in his room. Gus asks Hector to finally look at him, which is something Hector refuses to do during Gus' taunting visits. As Gus prepares to inject Hector with poison, Hector finally looks at him tearfully, then with rage in his eyes, and begins ringing his bell numerous times. Gus realizes the bell is connected to Walter's car bomb under Hector's wheelchair and the bomb explodes, killing Tyrus and Hector instantly. Gus walks out of the room, calmly adjusting his tie appearing to be unharmed; but the camera then pans to reveal that half of his face and scalp were torn completely off in the explosion. He then collapses and dies as care home staff come running to the site of the explosion. Walter hears the news of the explosion on the radio and is relieved that his plan to draw Gus out into the open and kill him apparently worked. He then heads to the lab, kills two of Gus' henchmen stationed there, and burns down the lab with Jesse.

 

In this breaking bad episode there are many different angles and shots used such as there is a montage of Walter white and Jesse are setting up the explosion things and it would take a couple of hours but it is shown in a few moments.there is also at the beginning a dolly as it slowly goes past the cars.there is a birds eye view of Walter sat in the car park then it comes down and zooms in and shows a close up and shows his reaction to the news of the death of hector.There are lots of action code as it zooms in on a knife to give suggestion the knife is important.when the explosion goes off it is off camera violence as you don't see the room blowing up you see outside the room what happens.There are also lots of over the shoulder shots used to show realism as to feel what is happening from the characters perspective to connect better with the character.They generally use natural light to show hector, the light coming through the window shows him and the henchman.