This is my first video analysis f or a Quiet place
The text was an extract from a quiet place, and the filmmaker wanted to emphasize how in the world of the movie the characters weren't allowed to make any sound, how the family were only using sign language to communicate and the town being empty showing as if only the family is left.
The producer is trying to convey how making sound is not allowed in the movie through connatations of a girl character making no noise when she walked/tiptoed through a store as seen from a close up shot with trucking movement. Therefore, the mise en scene was dark/eary to a point where you cant even see anything other than the character's feet, the floor was dirty, lights weren't working, the character didn't have any shoes on which indicated how the no unnecessary noise should be made and how the store had become dusty and abandoned with the addition of not allowing any sound to be heard from anyone not even the audience. This makes the audience curious, wanting to know more why the characters within the movie couldn't make any sound which puts the audience not at ease for whats to come next. A medium shot was also used when a small boy was trying to reach a toy rocket ship on a shelf and before he could catch it, it fell but a girl saved the toy rocket ship from falling which made the audience only hear her knees touching the ground and the rocket landing on her arms which shows diegetic sound being made.
- Why was a close up of her feet used? What did this signal to the audience?
ReplyDelete- What was the effect of the silence? And the lack of non-diegetic sound?
- I think a better big idea would be that making noise is dangerous. Everyone is afraid to make a sound.