Annotated Bibliography
“'A Quiet Place' and the Horror of Parenting."
The article focuses on the aspect of a parents goal to keep their child safe and how it effects them if they can’t. It also focuses on how a parent would react in a horror situation like this. the article states,
For example, when Evelyn is revealed to be in the late stages of pregnancy, I was initially awed by the courage and hope it takes to bring a child into such a dangerous world. But then I was literally struck with horror when I realized the magnitude of the nearly impossible task of keeping a baby quiet. (One partial solution Evelyn comes up with is both ingenious and claustrophobic.)
Joes statement about the film is accurate in how most people felt watching this movie. A mother having to keep a new born child quiet is almost impossible, but she has to keep the child alive. As the article talks about in the beginning, “Ask a parent their greatest fear, and they’ll likely say it’s threats of harm to their children.”
"How 'A Quiet Place' Sound Editors Scared Audience Sans Noise.”
This article is about how, in a movie like this, you have to connect the idea of sound with death. The audience needs to get a chill every time a noise occurs. The sound editor even used different techniques to make the sound even more eerie when it is happening.
“To create Regan’s sonic envelope, a binaural microphone — the Neumann KU 100 — was used; specifically to define the sound effects for her cochlear implants that viewers would hear. The microphone is in the shape of a human head and its unique recordings provide sounds as if they are inside your head. “It lends a sense of touch to the sound and it became a perfect tool for this movie,” Aadahl adds. [sound director]”
This technique is used so that the audience really feels immersed in the film and really gets the feeling that sound is what is going to be the monster in the movie. John Krasinski states “sound was going to be a character, if not the main character above all else.” Without this aspect, the audience wouldn’t have had the same fear of sound as the characters did.
“Sound Body, Sound Mind? The Interrelation Between Health Change and Personality Change in Old Age.”
This article talks about how as people age, everything works like a bell curve. Starting off incompetent, aging and learning, aging and losing mental awareness and physical strength along with personality changes. In the film, the only other character we meet that isn’t in the family is an old man. His wife has just died and he isn’t strong enough to run and he’s at an age where he’s okay with death.
“We argue that developmental trends for personality traits are closely related to changes in physical and subjective health and functioning in later life and that this relation might be instrumental for the maintenance of functioning in old age. We thus analyse associations between (change in) Big Five personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness)”
The big word for me is ‘neuroticism’. This is a personality trait the is correlated with anxiety, fear and loneliness. As people age, this becomes more apparent and was obviously the reason for the elderly man’s death in the film.
"Sight and Silence."
This Article starts off talking about how people deal with fear by plugging their ears in the theatre and how with this movie that doesn’t work. It goes on to talk about scenes and how certain sounds enhanced for further effect.
“With the traditional dialogue muted, other sounds are enhanced. Cornfields rustle. The whistle of Regan’s hearing aid—which turns out to be a key plot point—can come through.”
Each character is impacted by movement because that’s really all they have. Sign language and touch. That’s why when there is sound, its enhanced and made to make the audience say “woah! That’s insane!”
. "Making the Sound of Silence in 'A Quiet Place.'"
This article talks about how in most movies recently there has been a lot of action, big explosions and lots of noise. It also explains how Krasinski wanted to take it down and do the opposite. Krasinski specifically hired a sound director with experience in some of the biggest sound movies so that even the minimal sound in the film is amazing.
“Mr. Krasinski worked with the sound editors Ethan Van Der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, who have experience with the loud (“Godzilla”) and the louder (“Transformers”) but were interested in taking things down more than a few notches. They worked to create what they called “sound envelopes,” putting audiences in a character’s shoes to hear what they hear and how they might hear it.”
After this, it is mentioned that they hired a deaf actor to play the deaf role. This character has a huge impact on the movie because you see the movie from her perspective a lot, hindering the audience’s senses as well.
“Evidence for Website Claims about the Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to Infants and Toddlers with Normal Hearing.”
In this article, they talk about how more and more people are teaching their children sign language even when they don’t have impaired hearing. This has been proven to improve intelligence and get children to think more.
“A popular trend gaining national media attention is teaching sign language to babies with normal hearing whose parents also have normal hearing. Thirty-three websites were identified that advocate sign language for hearing children as a way of promoting better developmental outcomes.”
The children in this film are incredibly mature and intelligent. They learned sign language very early on and have very good survival skills. I think the partially has to do with learning something so complicated so early.
Works Cited
Carter, Joe. "'A Quiet Place' and the Horror of Parenting." The Gospel Coalition, 11 Apr. 2018, www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/quiet-place-horror-parenting/.
James, Daron. "How 'A Quiet Place' Sound Editors Scared Audience Sans Noise." Variety, 15 Feb. 2019, variety.com/2019/film/awards/a-quiet-place-sound-editors-scared-in-silence-1203140183/.
Kornadt, Anna E., et al. “Sound Body, Sound Mind? The Interrelation Between Health Change and Personality Change in Old Age.” European Journal of Personality, no. 1, 2018, p. 30. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1002/per.2135.
Livingstone, Josephine. "Sight and Silence." The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2018, newrepublic.com/article/147930/quiet-brilliance-quiet-place.
Murphy, Mekado. "Making the Sound of Silence in 'A Quiet Place.'" The New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/movies/a-quiet-place-john-krasinski-interview.html.
Nelson, Lauri H., et al. “Evidence for Website Claims about the Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to Infants and Toddlers with Normal Hearing.” Infant & Child Development, vol. 21, no. 5, Sept. 2012, pp. 474–502. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1002/icd.1748.
“'A Quiet Place' and the Horror of Parenting."
The article focuses on the aspect of a parents goal to keep their child safe and how it effects them if they can’t. It also focuses on how a parent would react in a horror situation like this. the article states,
For example, when Evelyn is revealed to be in the late stages of pregnancy, I was initially awed by the courage and hope it takes to bring a child into such a dangerous world. But then I was literally struck with horror when I realized the magnitude of the nearly impossible task of keeping a baby quiet. (One partial solution Evelyn comes up with is both ingenious and claustrophobic.)
Joes statement about the film is accurate in how most people felt watching this movie. A mother having to keep a new born child quiet is almost impossible, but she has to keep the child alive. As the article talks about in the beginning, “Ask a parent their greatest fear, and they’ll likely say it’s threats of harm to their children.”
"How 'A Quiet Place' Sound Editors Scared Audience Sans Noise.”
This article is about how, in a movie like this, you have to connect the idea of sound with death. The audience needs to get a chill every time a noise occurs. The sound editor even used different techniques to make the sound even more eerie when it is happening.
“To create Regan’s sonic envelope, a binaural microphone — the Neumann KU 100 — was used; specifically to define the sound effects for her cochlear implants that viewers would hear. The microphone is in the shape of a human head and its unique recordings provide sounds as if they are inside your head. “It lends a sense of touch to the sound and it became a perfect tool for this movie,” Aadahl adds. [sound director]”
This technique is used so that the audience really feels immersed in the film and really gets the feeling that sound is what is going to be the monster in the movie. John Krasinski states “sound was going to be a character, if not the main character above all else.” Without this aspect, the audience wouldn’t have had the same fear of sound as the characters did.
“Sound Body, Sound Mind? The Interrelation Between Health Change and Personality Change in Old Age.”
This article talks about how as people age, everything works like a bell curve. Starting off incompetent, aging and learning, aging and losing mental awareness and physical strength along with personality changes. In the film, the only other character we meet that isn’t in the family is an old man. His wife has just died and he isn’t strong enough to run and he’s at an age where he’s okay with death.
“We argue that developmental trends for personality traits are closely related to changes in physical and subjective health and functioning in later life and that this relation might be instrumental for the maintenance of functioning in old age. We thus analyse associations between (change in) Big Five personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness)”
The big word for me is ‘neuroticism’. This is a personality trait the is correlated with anxiety, fear and loneliness. As people age, this becomes more apparent and was obviously the reason for the elderly man’s death in the film.
"Sight and Silence."
This Article starts off talking about how people deal with fear by plugging their ears in the theatre and how with this movie that doesn’t work. It goes on to talk about scenes and how certain sounds enhanced for further effect.
“With the traditional dialogue muted, other sounds are enhanced. Cornfields rustle. The whistle of Regan’s hearing aid—which turns out to be a key plot point—can come through.”
Each character is impacted by movement because that’s really all they have. Sign language and touch. That’s why when there is sound, its enhanced and made to make the audience say “woah! That’s insane!”
. "Making the Sound of Silence in 'A Quiet Place.'"
This article talks about how in most movies recently there has been a lot of action, big explosions and lots of noise. It also explains how Krasinski wanted to take it down and do the opposite. Krasinski specifically hired a sound director with experience in some of the biggest sound movies so that even the minimal sound in the film is amazing.
“Mr. Krasinski worked with the sound editors Ethan Van Der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, who have experience with the loud (“Godzilla”) and the louder (“Transformers”) but were interested in taking things down more than a few notches. They worked to create what they called “sound envelopes,” putting audiences in a character’s shoes to hear what they hear and how they might hear it.”
After this, it is mentioned that they hired a deaf actor to play the deaf role. This character has a huge impact on the movie because you see the movie from her perspective a lot, hindering the audience’s senses as well.
“Evidence for Website Claims about the Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to Infants and Toddlers with Normal Hearing.”
In this article, they talk about how more and more people are teaching their children sign language even when they don’t have impaired hearing. This has been proven to improve intelligence and get children to think more.
“A popular trend gaining national media attention is teaching sign language to babies with normal hearing whose parents also have normal hearing. Thirty-three websites were identified that advocate sign language for hearing children as a way of promoting better developmental outcomes.”
The children in this film are incredibly mature and intelligent. They learned sign language very early on and have very good survival skills. I think the partially has to do with learning something so complicated so early.
Works Cited
Carter, Joe. "'A Quiet Place' and the Horror of Parenting." The Gospel Coalition, 11 Apr. 2018, www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/quiet-place-horror-parenting/.
James, Daron. "How 'A Quiet Place' Sound Editors Scared Audience Sans Noise." Variety, 15 Feb. 2019, variety.com/2019/film/awards/a-quiet-place-sound-editors-scared-in-silence-1203140183/.
Kornadt, Anna E., et al. “Sound Body, Sound Mind? The Interrelation Between Health Change and Personality Change in Old Age.” European Journal of Personality, no. 1, 2018, p. 30. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1002/per.2135.
Livingstone, Josephine. "Sight and Silence." The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2018, newrepublic.com/article/147930/quiet-brilliance-quiet-place.
Murphy, Mekado. "Making the Sound of Silence in 'A Quiet Place.'" The New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/movies/a-quiet-place-john-krasinski-interview.html.
Nelson, Lauri H., et al. “Evidence for Website Claims about the Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to Infants and Toddlers with Normal Hearing.” Infant & Child Development, vol. 21, no. 5, Sept. 2012, pp. 474–502. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1002/icd.1748.