Dance Film - Baby Driver

Jack and I have found that one of the most influential pieces of work for our dance video is the 2017 feature film 'Baby Driver' directed by Edgar Wright, the same director of the Mint Royale music video that we previously mentioned in our research. Baby Driver has been commented on its use of sound and music to compliment the action in the film so much so that it was nominated for best editing, best sound mixing and best sound editing at the 2018 Oscars. There are a number of scenes that we could choose to reference from this film but the two that stick out in particular are the opening scene and the sandwich making scene. In the opening scene we are met with Baby himself as he sits in a car, waiting for the rest of his team to rob a bank. Whilst he waits we hear the overlay of the song 'Bellbottoms' by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion as Baby listens to it on his iPod. Baby then proceeds to move and bop to the beats of the tune. The whole sequence is a minimalistic dance piece that is captured in the small space of the front two seats of the car. Baby uses the devices around him to compliment the dance; He uses indicators, windscreen wipers and the horn to all help make his dance work and this is something that myself and Jack are trying to replicate in a sense. Baby does this again in the sandwich making scene. He uses the music playing through the stereo system as the baseline of making food for his disabled housemate. This scene is huge influence for what Jack and I actually want to create as the setting for this scene is in a kitchen which is the exact same location as us. It's given us lots of ideas about how we are able to move our dancer around a kitchen instead of just walking.