Text Analysis: A Quiet Place

This is my video analysis of The Quiet Place

The text was an extract from A Quiet Place, the filmmakers wanted to show the audiences that it's a ghost town and that the world has gone silent. Additionally, the directors wanted to also show that the child was the only one making noises.

The filmmakers used technical elements to show that the town the characters were in, has become an abandoned or ghost town. At the beginning of the film, the director used several establishing shots with no movement to show the environment in that world; the static camera movement was used to show that nothing in the environment was moving or alive - the audience could infer that this town is ghosted or abandoned. The filmmakers also designed the environment to be messy, where items are scattered, the town is trashed and structures are collapsed, such as fallen traffic lights, and messy stores. This has connotations that the people have left, as there is no one taking care of the town. This emphasizes that the town in that world is abandoned; there is no one else. The filmmakers also directed the sounds of the movie so that only the environment made the diegetic sounds; sounds of leaves rustling and newspaper shuffling were the only diegetic noises that could be heard in the movie. This shows that there is no chatter in the world; further emphasizing the ghost, silent town - this is also shown by the characters using sign language.