Today in class, Mr.River began by giving us note cards. We were told to answer one of the three questions displayed below every day forth until the movie finished
A) EDITING TECHNIQUE/CHOICE: Identify an editing choice (cut or transition). What does it DO (Logic? Continuity? Tone? Genre? Practicality?)
B) GENRE: How does editing (assembly) make this film a (INSERT GENRE HERE)? (GENRES: COMEDY, ROMANCE, ACTION, MUSICAL, ???)
C) EDITING & MUSIC: This film often blurs the lines between diegetic and non-diegetic audio. Select a moment where this happens-- what ARGUMENT(s) does it make about music?
With that, we began the film ¨Baby Driver¨ staring Ansel Elgort. The film started off with Ansel(Baby), we seem to be the driver for a group of people looking to perform a heist. We don't know why Baby is doing this but he seems uncomfortable, drowning everything out with music. As Baby waits we realize that he really like music, grooving in his car to old school funk music. He seems very meticulous when it comes to music and feels a connection towards anyone who likes music.
Once the heist is complete, Baby and his goons speed off in a suped-up Subaru, which turns into one of the coolest car chases I've ever seen. Baby clearly has the insane driving capability when it comes to cars. After they evade the cops, we learn that Baby is only doing the heists because he stole someone car and h is doing the heists to pay him back. We also learn that Babys driving abilities to spawn from a tragic car crash when he was little, which gave him ringing ears(hence all the music). Near the end of the section, we learn that Baby secretly records people when they talk to him and turns there voice into music tracks(I think this is so he can hear the person without the ringing), which he stores and seems to have hundreds of.
Try and hand in your notecards by the end of class, if not it's ok, hand it in at the beginning of class tomorrow.
If you miss the film, talk to Mr.Rivers about a makeup viewing.
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