Film Project Research: Baby Driver

The opening of Baby Driver sets up a clear premise for the plot. It begins with a camera shot of the outside of a bank. It then pans over to three people in a car. The man and women get out, heading towards the bank and Baby stays in the car. Source music plays inside the car as Baby jams out to the tunes and sings along. A police car drives by, and the camera pans to the inside of the bank showing the man and women that got out of the car holding the bank up and shooting off guns. Just from these first two minutes, we can tell that Baby is involved with  a crime gang. We can also see that he is heavily attached to music and is responsible as the driver for the crime group. Close-up camera shots are used of Baby in the car to make the audience feel as though they are experiencing the scene with him. Long shots are used to show what is going on inside the bank from Baby's perspective. There were no opening credits, just the footage. The movie's budget was 34 million dollars and it made a profit of 226 million dollars. It won the Golden Trailer Award for Best Action Film.