Action Opening Scene (Baby Driver 2017)

Baby Driver is an action film released in 2017 starring: Ansel Elgort as Baby, Jamie Foxx as Bats, Jon Hamm as Buddy, Lily James as Deborah and many more.

It is about a young boy who is a heist getaway driver that relies on his music alone to keep him concentrated and motivated to become the best. His boss sets him up on a job that could put his girlfriend in danger, but the plan goes south as the dealer they go to ends up being undercover police.

The genre of the film is established in the first shot of a building. The fact that the building is taking over majority of the screen and that we can see the location on the building, saying Atlanta, gives us the location. Tied in with this building is a bank, with the cars moving past, the audience can start to piece together this may be a bank robbery. 

The target audience for this film, from what we can already see, is from early teenagers up to adults. This is because there isn't strong amounts of violence and an almost comedic factor when the driver is getting into his music. It will interest the younger generation due to there being a loud and antisocial car that is drifting through the streets. It also interests an older generation due to the music being more rock based that will relate more to that generation. 

The characters are slowly revealed with the camera starting on the car and then to the boy. This suggests to the audience that he is a young boy racer. A diegetic soundtrack is shown when the camera cuts to his ipod, showing the music we are about to hear is from within the films world, hearing what the boy is hearing. The fact this is singled out and is shown to have importance connotes music maybe a big part of the film. until the camera cuts to a man sitting next to him, who looks very dodgy. This confuses the audience due to not knowing why he is in the car. However the camera then cuts to the rest of the characters, who also look a bit suspicious, sitting in the car showing he is highly likely a getaway driver. the music that the boy plays in the car when all of the other characters get out of the vehicle adheres to the stereotype, as rock is stereotypically shown to be more rebel.

I think this is a very successful opening sequence due to it revealing the characters in a very clever and effective way, and creates a perfect plot for the audience to be interested in when watching the rest of the film.