Assignment Task:
Discussion, you will need to watch two films: Baby Driver (Edgar Wright. 2017) and a film of your choice from the provided list.
Film One:
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright. 2017)
Edgar Wright's film is a romantic musical disguised as a heist film. The plot is reminiscent of the film noirs of Hollywood's forties and fifties, about a good guy forced into a life of crime. Exquisitely edited to a fantastic sound design and score, the film makes almost every scene a musical number, from the opening getaway chase to a gunfight where the gunshots and even windshield wiper blades are all choreographed and synchronized to the musical score. The film does contain scenes of violence.
Film Two:
Watch one of these Editing Award winning films. Discuss and compare it to Baby Driver in this week's discussion post.
- Amadeus (1984)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Argo (2012)
- Black Panther (2018)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Das Boot (1981)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
- Chicago (2002)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Drive (2011)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
- Ford vs. Ferrari (2019)
- Gravity (2013)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- Joker (2019)
- Inception (2010)
- Lincoln (2012)
- M (1931)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Playtime (1967)
- The Revenant (2015)
- Rush (2013)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- The Social Network (2010)
- Whiplash (2007)
For both Baby Driver and the film you selected:
1. What role does the soundtrack or music play in shaping the viewer's emotional response to the films? Can you point to any memorable musical moments? Need Assignment Help?
2. Discuss the editing techniques:
- Are there any notable techniques or transitions?
- Does the pacing enhance the films' themes and emotional moments?
- Do you see any evidence of montage editing?