This is my video analysis for 'A Quiet Place'
The text was an extract from the movie with the title, 'The Quiet Place'. The film maker wanted to convey through camera angles and movements, mise-en-scene and sound to convey 1.) how isolated and abandoned the place is, 2.) how optimistic the family is in a desperate or hopeless situation, and 3.) the unknown threats of being too loud.
The opening of the movie shows how isolated abandoned the place is. Long shots in static angle are used in a few clips throughout the movie, this shows what is happening and what is displayed in the town. The fact that the only sounds heard was grass rustling and paper pages flipping due to the wind (D) and the silence or quietness of the surroundings connotes how remote and empty the town is, without any living things especially humans staying in that town. Mise-en-scene is shown during the outdoor scenes, the filmmaker uses a more warmer tone color such as brown or red (more into an autumn color palette). To add, many objects are scattered on the ground without proper placement or organisation, hence showing the connotations of rustiness or how dead the place is, as if people already left the place for a huge amount of time. On the other hand, during the indoor scene of a deserted mini market, the filmmaker tend to use more darker shades of color as well as natural lighting to show how the sun isn't exposed inside the mini market, thus explaining the items inside the mini market isn't shown clearly as it is all dark from the shadows. Another thing is that numerous posters of missing people are put on view on the wall which conveys a sense of mystery on the reason why the town is immensely alone. This makes the audience to be intrigued as builds curiosity on what happened to that town and what makes people leave or perhaps disappear from that place.
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