Building The Sounds Of Silence w/ A Quiet Place's Sound Editors — Transcript

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1. 0:06Getting this stripped down and exploring
2. 0:10silence and all the different various
3. 0:12shades of quiet, I feel like it's
4. 0:14something that we've been waiting to do
5. 0:16for a long time.
6. 0:17You know, it's kind of a
7. 0:18critical story point in this film that
8. 0:21sound is deadly. What's the right level
9. 0:24where it reads, but they're not dead?
10. 0:27And actually one of our catch phrases
11. 0:28was like if a sound was just a little
12. 0:31too loud from a character, we'd be like,
13. 0:34"They're dead."
14. 0:43In many ways, we approached this project
15. 0:47like, you know, let's turn it all off,
16. 0:50let's turn all the sound off, all the
17. 0:52music off, let's start from, you know,
18. 0:55ground zero and just start building
19. 0:57element by element.
20. 0:59We were hoping to create an effect with
21. 1:01this film where people would be afraid
22. 1:03to make sounds themselves. That they'd
23. 1:06start holding their breath and not
24. 1:08jumping on the popcorn and become active
25. 1:11participants like the characters in the
26. 1:13film. One of our early ideas was
27. 1:16creating a sonic point of view for the
28. 1:19daughter's character who's deaf. And
29. 1:22Millicent Simmonds, the actor actress
30. 1:24who plays her is also deaf in real life.
31. 1:27And we thought, well, let's
32. 1:30right in the beginning of the film where
33. 1:31we go in close-up to her, put the
34. 1:33audience right in her shoes and what is
35. 1:35her reality? What is her point of view?
36. 1:38And what we're able to do by going into
37. 1:40her perspective is actually go to
38. 1:43complete silence. And the first time we
39. 1:45did that, I'm like,
40. 1:47wow, that is like that's really powerful
41. 1:50because that's an experience we we don't
42. 1:53ever get. I mean, we don't get that
43. 1:55experience in real life.
44. 1:57Um and we definitely don't ever get it
45. 1:59in movies. Silence is novel. It's um
46. 2:03Where where in the world can you go
47. 2:04anymore where it's really quiet? So,
48. 2:07there's something really unsettling
49. 2:08about creating this universe that is
50. 2:11quiet.