Krasinski, who spoke to AC by phone from Austin, where the film had premiered the previous evening, credits Christensen not only with the idea of shooting on film, but also for suggesting the mix of spherical and anamorphic lenses. “Sound doesn’t go out completely,” the director says, “but we bring the audience into her head so you are hearing the world that she hears.” Diopters came into play for insert shots of her hearing aid. To further convey her sense of separation, the audio track changes. Laying down some smoke effects as Christensen operates a dolly shot.Īccording to Krasinski, Regan’s POV plays an important role in the story. “It’s a Panavision lens housing with Zeiss glass in it,” he says. reports that this lens was a 55mm Super Speed (T1.1) with a close focus of 2'. “We shot handheld for other scenes, but we wanted a specific handheld closeness for Regan, as if we are going inside her head.” First AC Stanley Fernandez Jr.
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“We used the 65mm C Series lens a lot when we needed to get close on anamorphic.” But there was another look that was reserved for Regan in certain instances when “we needed to move into Regan’s mind and ‘hear’ her own silence.” To set her apart at these moments, Christensen - who operated A camera and handled the special shots of the girl - switched to a spherical 55mm lens and moved in tight on her. “Anamorphic became our kind of ordinary, everyday look for scenes of the family eating meals and ,” she continues. She asked me what I wanted most out of the film, and I said, ‘to have a timeless quality, a sort of nostalgic quality that will take audiences back to a. “Charlotte and I talked about at great length. Spherical lenses were employed primarily for night exteriors, as well as some night interiors “when we needed the physical closeness,” Christensen says. Anamorphic lenses captured the scale and beauty of daytime exteriors for the film - which was shot almost entirely on practical locations in New York State’s bucolic Dutchess County - as well as larger interior spaces, such as the barn that serves as the family’s living quarters. Plotting a dolly shot on location in southeastern New York state.Ī Quiet Place was shot on 35mm film and released in 2.39:1. It became our way of ‘photographing sound.’ It was also the impetus behind mixing anamorphic and spherical lenses.” “If you are far away on a long lens, it wouldn’t be realistic to hear subtle sounds if you get physically close to a character or object, even faint noises would become audible.
“We created images that sound designers could give a proper sound to, so viewers feel they are right there.” That translated into a lot of tight close-ups - pieces being moved on a Monopoly board, bare feet stepping gingerly. “That was our starting point in terms of the visual style,” says Christensen, known for her work on Far From the Madding Crowd ( AC June 2015), Fences ( AC Jan. Visuals and sound effects do the heavy lifting in a film containing few spoken words. “The only way they know is that every night Lee sets a fire atop the grain silo and, in response, fires appear on other silos around the countryside.” The family converses in American Sign Language, a normal form of communication for them because teenaged daughter Regan is deaf.
“The entire film focuses on this one family,” she continues. “It was important to John that we create a realistic, truthful world - a recognizable environment and a believable family with whom audiences can identify - and then, within that, to have a genre movie,” offers cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen, speaking to AC from her home in Copenhagen.Ĭinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen. Lee Abbott ( John Krasinski, who also directed and co-wrote the film) his wife, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and their two kids, Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and Marcus (Noah Jupe), live on a farm in upstate New York. “We created images that sound designers could give a proper sound to, so viewers feel they are right there.” While the supernatural is a key element in the story, the film’s primary focus is the family and how they try to maintain as normal a life as possible while confronting an existential threat. Kicking off this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival was A Quiet Place, a contemporary horror-thriller about an ordinary family that must live in silence in order to elude mysterious creatures that hunt their human prey by sound.
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