“Sometimes if you have too much sound happening at once it turns into mud and just overload, and what becomes important is contrast,” Van Der Ryn says. READ MORE: A Quiet Place Part II Sound Designers Explain How They Scare Audiences (Coming Soon) Evelyn (Emily Blunt) in “A Quiet Place Part II.” Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures Before partnering with Aadhal, Van der Ryn had worked on The Godfather: Part III, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, while Aadahl’s credits include I, Robot, Superman Returns, Argo and The Tree of Life. It’s something that both artists realized working on blockbusters together including Godzilla, Monsters vs Aliens, The Meg, Bumblebee and every Transformers movie. Often it is silence itself which is golden. “So, there’s a real process of experimentation to get there and figure out what’s going to work the best.” “When we start working it’s not always immediately evident what’s going to work the best,” Van Der Ryn explains to Coming Soon. You can read all about that at IBC 365: “ Behind the Scenes: A Quiet Place.”Įntering the second film, the task was how to expand on that universe, expand on the creature sound design, build it out and create a bigger vocabulary. They next developed a set of aural identifiers, or “sonic envelopes” in their terms, to tell the story from different perspectives. Making the original film, the sound designers first established rules around silence in order to know when to break them. They prey on anything that makes a sound, and in particular the Abbot family (the husband and wife played by real-life couple Krasinski and Emily Blunt). The premise, for those needing to catch up, is that of a world terrorized by monster aliens who make up for what they lack in sight with super sensitive hearing. In 2018 A Quiet Place was nominated for an Oscar for sound editing for the work of supervising sound team Erik Aadahl and Ethan van de Ryn, who return for director John Krasinski’s sequel. Ideally, you’d be in the cinema with full Atmos surround sound but if not, for true jump scare enjoyment, you need to reserve time on the couch with no interruptions. The only way to watch A Quiet Place Part II is to be in a quiet place.
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