
And when she realizes is that her little brother just made the first big sound of the movie. And so this is her perspective - seeing me run, seeing me look scared, but she doesn’t know why. So she can’t tell that there’s a sound being made behind her right now. And so we play with that throughout the entire movie. So we’re in “the envelope,” we called it - the envelope being in her head, she can hear very little thanks to a hearing aid that she has. And then right here, you cut to Millie, and we pull sound out. So you can hear sound when you’re walking with Emily and I, like this, and with Noah.
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We wanted the sound of the movie to reflect her own actual experience. And we’re about to do one of my favorite things in the movie, which is play with her perspective. So Millie, one of the actresses, is a deaf actress. It’s totally a main character that is right along here with the family. And it adds tension, I think, to the fact that they have nowhere to turn or nobody around them to help them. And so being in the middle of nowhere helps this family feel like they’re in the middle of nowhere. The idea was to be in a very rural area in sort of a post-apocalyptic time to feel isolation.

And then when you go to a wider shot, you can’t hear that exact same sound, which is one of the things we really loved doing throughout the whole movie. When we’re close up on something, you can really hear it.


And this sort of sets up a lot of the rules of the movie, one of which you’re seeing right here, which is the idea of perspective and sound. This is our hero family walking home from a - now established as an abandoned town. This is John Krasinski, the director and one of the actors in “A Quiet Place.” What you’re watching now is at the very beginning of the movie. Transcript Anatomy of a Scene | ‘A Quiet Place’ The director John Krasinski narrates a sequence from his film, in which he stars with Emily Blunt.
