A Quiet Place Review

A Quiet Place Review

A Quiet Place falls under the genre of thriller/horror, the film follows a family living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland terrorised by giant reptile like predators with extraordinary hearing, but they are blind meaning if you are silent you are safe. The family live in constant fear as one tiny noise could mean their death, to make matters worse the mother is due to give birth to her baby any day. The only reason the Abbot family has survived this long is due to Reagan the daughter being deaf meaning the whole family communicates through sign language.

The movie never addresses how their world became and like this and if they are the only place affected by these predators. I think if more of a background story was given it could have given more depth to the story line and the characters. Although in an interview Krasinski stated that he developed the idea of the monster by watching mostly alien movies, but he didn’t want it to look like it was an actual thinking alien he wanted it to be like a predator or a parasite. Emily Blunt and John  Krasinski who play the two main characters fit the roles perfectly, one of the best scenes throughout the whole movie is when Evelynn goes into labour alone and has to be silent as the monster is lurking about their house, she is walking around the basement too find a place to stay and has a nail go through her foot, it is a very hard scene to watch due do its shock factor but it shows how well blunt plays the role.

As the majority of the movie is silent it creates a very tense atmosphere as you are almost always waiting for something to happen, also the eerie silence makes the jump scares much louder and more terrifying. The climax of the film comes when Regan realises that the key to killing the monsters is her hearing aid. This adds to the sadness of the ending as you realise that the did not need to die as they had what could kill them all along. Overall, I do think that it was a very good film and I highly recommend watching it in cinemas as it gives the full affect of the silent movie and from a budget of $17,000,000 it has done extremely well and accumulated $332,583,447 worldwide.

Fictional film Codes and Conventions

Film genre analysis from emeliacrocker

Learning Aim A

Codes and Conventions of Digital Magazines from emeliacrocker

technical considerations also need to be considered within the distribution of the magazine, for print magazines as it will cost a lot more to print and distribute print magazines as more people will need to be employed to produce the print copies of the magazine. some of the other technical considerations of print magazines would be if it would be printed in A4 or A5, the style of the fonts to be used and how will the reader navigate through the magazine. A big technical consideration for print magazines would be where will the readers be able to buy the magazine and will it be easy to find, also how the reader will navigate throughout the magazine will they have to zoom in and out to read the article. you also have to consider some of the things that will go wrong such as some colors and fonts will not translate into digital so the magazine could potentially look different. some of the platforms that could be used to distribute a digital magazine would be Amazon who use Mobe and Barnes and Noble who use epub,.

Editing and Sound

Editing and sound from emeliacrocker

Movie Scene Analysis

Movie scene analysis from emeliacrocker

Lighting from emeliacrocker

Practice mise-en-scene analysis:Psycho

Psycho Analysis

-medium close up of the woman as the scene opens

-black and white shows that it is an old horror movie

- low angle shot off the house uses shadows

  to make it scary

-bad weather makes it eerie

-goes back to medium shot creates tension by switching between the two

-music gets louder as he is about to enter the house which suggests something bad is about to happen, it increases as he is leading her further into the house

-a lot of shadows are used to make it look eerie

-medium close up is used on the two people as they are talking

-talking about the birds is foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen to her she could end up hurt like one of the birds

-as he is talking to her he strokes the stuffed bird which creates a creepy atmosphere

-starts asking personal questions which makes her not trust him 

-scratch and claw have connotations of struggle and violence

-she starts to look uncomfortable as he asks her more personal questions this is shown as he asks the questions she starts to move around as if looking for a way out of answering it

-low angle shots of him makes him look powerful and creepy could foreshadow that he is very important in the movies storyline

-smiles whilst talking about how someone died this shows that he doesn’t feel bad about what happen and could suggest that he had something to do with it

-close up of his face he isn’t blinking which creates an eerie atmosphere

-he starts to get angry you can tell by his facial expressions