Key Elements: Editing
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017)
Baby Drivers editing in the opening sequence is unique and powerful most notably because of how the score imbeds itself into the scene almost flowing into it smoothly. The scene and the music become some what of the same thing and Edgar Wright achieves via his use of the tempo and beat of the music matching the timings of cuts within the scene but also with the choreography of the actors for example, towards the very beginning we see a series of 4 cuts presenting each of the characters, these cuts line up with the beats of he music to amplify the presence of each character, we see this ‘cut on beat’ effect throughout the sequence. Along with that choreography is aligned to a tee with the score with even the chewing of a character matching with the tempo, this creates a rhythmic flow to the scene.
We are subject to a ridiculous amount of separate cuts in the chase scene of this sequence but it is all still works together to put us in the seat of the people in the car, the fast paced cuts matches the fast paced intensity of a car chase and Edgar Wright does this in a amazing way almost increasing our own adrenaline. The final cut sees us out with one more final cut watching the car go away, this is done to slow us down and let us know the chase is over.
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