Baby driver soundtrack with scenes how to#
Baby driver soundtrack with scenes movie#

Talented getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. Watch the best Baby Driver scenes & clips: So, obviously that one demo tape is very important to Baby.Baby Driver - Blues Explosion Chase: Baby (Ansel Elgort) drives through the streets of Atlanta to get his crew to safety. ItвЂ™s kind of a sad thing when you think his mom was an aspiring singer, she had one demo tape, and then she died. I had the idea that the mom was a singer, but it wasnвЂ™t until a later draft I thought maybe itвЂ™d be interesting to catch a glimpse of that in flashbacks.

It was so impressive to me, I thought, вЂњThere's gotta be a way of getting this into the movie.вЂќ After the junkyard sequence where he disposes of a dead body, thatвЂ™s his song for banishing the black mood away. I just out of nowhere said, вЂњHey, what song can you lip sync by heart?вЂќ And he paused for a second and said, вЂњвЂEasyвЂ™ by the Commodores,вЂќ which is quite a surprising choice for a 20-year-old actor. I was very impressed, вЂ™cause we didn't let him prepare anything. Basically the choreographer Ryan Heffington and I sprang it on him in the audition. When did you decide that that would happen? Sky Ferreira sings the song in the movie, though. YouвЂ™ve said you put the Commodores song вЂњEasyвЂќ in Baby Driver because of Ansel Elgort's audition. It's like, вЂњOkay, so your bit is this: вЂBam ba-bam bam bam.вЂ™ And your bit is this: вЂDa da da-da-da.вЂ™вЂќ It's kind of an insane thing to go through with people, but it totally works.

Baby driver soundtrack with scenes how to#

Then we would literally make everyone learn how to fire to their little drum parts. Before I'd written a word, I said to Mark, вЂњHey, could you dub gunshots onto this drum solo so I can map it out?вЂќ Then I wrote the scene, did storyboards, and edited the storyboards to the music, so then you can have an animatic. I thought that would be an interesting thing for a gun fight. I'd heard that cover of вЂњTequilaвЂќ on a compilation, which has this dueling drum solos. I'd say, вЂњCan you help me put sound effects into this song?вЂќ HeвЂ™d make a version of it that has all of the sound effects-he dubbed car noises, police sirens, and gunshots. I'd actually started to break down the songs with a DJ friend of mine, Mark Nicholson, whose nom de plume is Osymyso. When I actually sat down to write the movie, had earmarked about 10 songs: Jon Spencer, the Damned, the вЂњTequilaвЂќ cover, вЂњHocus PocusвЂќ, Blur, the Barry White song, the Queen song, and some others. IвЂ™m always trying to find songs that have sections like that.

Baby driver soundtrack with scenes movie#

Also, a lot of the songs in the movie had some interesting things happening structure-wise-tempo changes, breakdowns, loud and quiet bits. I've been thinking about the movie for a number of years, so for quite a while I've been thinking, вЂњThis is a good Baby Driver song.вЂќ The Damned one -thatвЂ™s a song that IвЂ™ve loved for a long time, and IвЂ™ve never heard in a movie, so I thought. How did these songs enter the movieвЂ™s universe for you? Would you be hearing them in the wild and youвЂ™d think, вЂњThis should be in Baby Driver,вЂќ or was it more like you were sitting at a desk and thinking them up as you typed out a draft? If I was them, I would bring it back as an option. It's a funny thing with technology where a company is trying to phase out different ways that you do stuff. They said, вЂњDo you have Apple Music?вЂќ I said, вЂњYeah!вЂќ They said, вЂњOh.вЂќ I said, вЂњI just like the iPod-having a hard drive with everything.вЂќ I realize that itвЂ™s going to die soon and IвЂ™m going to have to buy another one on eBay. Somebody from Apple came to see the movie, and when I told them that I still use the iPod, they looked at me like I was insane.

I still use it! I have one in my pocket as we speak. I thought that was kind of interesting, вЂ™cause I thought if he stole cars, the main thing you end up with is a collection of sunglasses and a collection of other peopleвЂ™s listening devices. And if he's been stealing cars since he was 12, he's going to have inherited a lot of other peopleвЂ™s iPods. If you think of Ansel ElgortвЂ™s age, he was seven when the first iPod came out, which is enough to make anybody feel old. If he grew up with that, itвЂ™s almost like his version of vinyl. Not really, I kind of figured he would be stuck on that.