{"id":87,"date":"2017-11-28T14:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/?p=87"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:36:34","slug":"baby-driver-opening-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2017\/11\/28\/baby-driver-opening-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Driver: Opening Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby Driver - Opening Titles, Coffee Run Scene (feat. Harlem Shuffle by Bob &amp; Earl) [ORIGINAL]\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rYv2a_VF328?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The latest film from Edgar Wright,\u00a0<strong>Baby Driver<\/strong>, is a new kind of musical.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Baby Driver, the music drives the story. The main character, <em>Baby<\/em>, \u00a0has tinnitus (ringing in the ears)\u00a0and as a result, \u00a0listens to music through earphones to drown it out.<\/p>\n<p>In this opening title, the song <em>Harlam Shuffle<\/em> by Earl &amp; Bob constructs the entire scene. This choreographed sequence plays out like a music video.<\/p>\n<p>Synchronisation plays an important part within this sequence. Every single action is\u00a0precisely carried out in time to the beat of the song. As Baby is walking down roads to the rhythm of the beat, we also notice that the words, signs and graffiti on the walls around him sync up to the lyrics of the song. \u00a0<strong><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328&amp;t=26s\">00:26<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; &#8216;right&#8217; written on wall, Baby also turns right,\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328&amp;t=53s\"><strong>00:53<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; \u00a0ATM machine beeping to the beat,\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rYv2a_VF328&amp;t=90s\"><strong>01:30<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; When ordering coffee, Baby thinks and says &#8216;yeah yeah yeah&#8217; together with the song. \u00a0We as the audience are hearing exactly what Baby is hearing.<\/p>\n<p>In this movie, the images are subordinate to sound, giving sound a critical role in the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest film from Edgar Wright,\u00a0Baby Driver, is a new kind of musical. In\u00a0Baby Driver, the music drives the story. The main character, Baby, \u00a0has tinnitus (ringing in the ears)\u00a0and as a result, \u00a0listens to music through earphones to drown it out. In this opening title, the song Harlam Shuffle by Earl &amp; Bob constructs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2017\/11\/28\/baby-driver-opening-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baby Driver: Opening Title<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorised","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}