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Video: How sound is expertly used as a key element in ‘A Quiet Place’:

By Asbjoern Andersen
A woman hushes a worried child in the basement.

Filmmaker Michael Tucker has done a great feature with A Quiet Place sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, brilliantly highlighting how sound is used as a key element in the film:

A Quiet Place — Telling a Story with Sound:

About the video:

Sound always plays a particularly important role in the horror genre, but A Quiet Place takes this a step further, making sound itself a key element of the story. So in this video I talk to the sound designers of the film, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, to learn more about the ways sound can be used in storytelling.

Want to know much more about the sound for A Quite Place? Check out this in-depth interview with Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn here.



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