Genre Research: A Quite Place

Camera movements in this film are mainly still shots and tracking shots.The camera angle used the most were long shots. Film making techniques at their most simple. It reminds us that the simplest action, whether it's cutting between two subjects that sort of look alike or playing a high frequency over a radio, can have great effect. The film's costumes consist of regular civilian clothing. The majority of the film is shot with low/dark lighting. Acting is strictly serious to make the film feel as realistic as possible to the audience. For the majority of "A Quiet Place" the movie is silent. But when the movie does include sound it uses sound, for example the crunching of leaves as a character is walking through the forest, the sound is enhanced to contrast the uneasy silence. In the film “match-cut” and “cross-cutting” edits were used the most. In emphasizing the visual similarity of these two literally disparate subjects, the film draws a conclusive relationship between them. In cutting between these different scenes, the film suggests, on a basic level, that they're happening at the same time, while emotionally juicing the feelings of suspense, narrative stakes, and dramatic irony (in that none of the subjects know the other scenes are happening, but we do). For our film we would want to use long shots, to help create the realism for the movie, just like how it did for "A Quiet Place". We wouldn’t use the type of sound techniques used in the film. The way "A Quiet Place" uses silence in the film to their advantage is amazing, but for our film I think it wouldn't match our ideas.