Genre research ; A quiet place

  My group and I have been watching recent horror films to better understand this particular genre. One of the films that we watched was the 2018 horror film The quiet place. Directed by John Krasinski, the quiet place follows a family that must live in silence to avoid the creatures that hunt by sound. We chose this movie for this project because this movie was one of the highest grossing horror films bring in $340.9 million in the box office. While watching this film we noticed a big variety of camera angles shots and movements. the camera angles that we caught was a lot of eye level angles, high angles, and low angles. This movie also has a lot of camera shots like medium shot, medium shot, close ups, aerial shots and over the shoulder shots. The movements that were used in the film were pan, flash pans, tracking shot, and zooms. The quiet place also had a very interesting mid en scene which can be shown through the abbreviation C.L.A.M.P.S. C for the costumes was fairly normal. Most of the characters were humans that wore the cloths related to the time period that they were in. The only out of the ordinary costumes were the ones the actors who were playing the monsters wore. L for lighting, the light in the movie was fairly dark even when it was supposed to be the day time which gave the movie an eerie feeling. A for actors, the acting in the movie was incredible. The role which they had to play was not easy. They didn’t have a lot of dialogue which meant that they had to act through their face, they had to really emphasize the emotions in their face to make up for not having any dialogue. M for makeup, the makeup was very light, normal looking makeup. Except for the makeup used to create the mysterious monsters. The makeup was a lot of effects makeup to create the terrifying monsters. P for props, this film had very little props but the props it did have included the red lights that were strung around the farm that the family lived at which flashed red when the mother of the family went into labor. Another important prop was the hearing aid that the daughter of the family had. This prop was very important because at the end of the movie the mother and daughter found out that the hearing aid created a frequency that killed the monsters. S for setting, the setting of the movie took place at a farm in the country side, a forest, and a store. The main sound used in this film was some Ambient sounds like the waterfall and leaves crunching. Also a little bit of dialogue between the characters. The movie had a lot of common horror movie elements but also had a lot of original elements of its own. The movie was a horror film that was silent the whole run time but also provoked a sense of fear with the actions and facial expressions used by the actors. An element of the movie that I did enjoy was the plot of the movie and how well the actors played their roles without a lot of dialogue. The concept of the movie was such a new concept and the movie didn’t really rely on jump scares. The elements I didn’t like was how dark it was all the time. The darkness did give a eerie feeling to it but it can be overwhelming when you watch it for 2 to 3 hours. Overall, this movie was a great horror movie and it really showed us how to make a horror genre film.