Welcome back everyone and if it's your first time here my name is Robert Macfarlane and
every week I take a look at your favorite film and tv series analyzing it to see just how the
filmmakers do it so grab a cup of coffee kick back and today we're going to take a look at three
techniques that John Krasinski uses in A Quiet Place 2 to take you to the edge of your seat
number one John Krasinski is a master at using perspective
concerned about the daughter but then we hear the iconic clicking sound of the monster
outside
this changes the focus of the father to the outside of the pub and with that
the camera changes angle this starts to set the stage for the set of rules that
we're going to go along for the majority of this scene so when a sound happens people's
perspective their focus changes and with that generally John Krasinski has cut
to show that person's perspective and their reaction of that sound so when we
hear the sound outside the father and pretty much everyone else they're pretty pretty pretty scared
we actually changed to show not the outside of the pub not the windows of the pub but
we actually show the father's face this keeps us within the father's perspective
because we see his reaction to that sound and this is what's really interesting here
perspective lets us know how each person is experiencing something
so then we understand using our mirror neurons and our empathy skills as human
beings what we should be feeling when we hear or see what the filmmaker is presenting us with
as the father and daughter start to back away now we actually hear a phone conversation happening
in the background this changes the father's focus from the monster outside to the girl
inside having a phone call on a sidenote if you're feeling suitably you know anxious
from watching all of these clips from A Quiet Place 2 don't forget to smash the like button
and uh you know subscribe so you don't miss any of my other episodes thank you and then we cut closer
to the girl having this phone call so we're now within the perspective of this couple on
the other side of the pub John Krasinski has been really smart here he hasn't let us stay on this
couple for too long so we know that this isn't a permanent set of characters we're going to follow
we jump back to our protagonists they are the almost the pivot point from which we are going
to go off to other perspectives then once we go back to the middle of the room another sound comes
from the other side of the pub and because these people aren't making a lot of noise
we don't get annoyed by these characters and that's something that I think is really
important in a lot of horror or suspense films when we see someone do something really stupid
but John has been really smart he's done something that
could have fallen into the cliche but it didn't
you're strong now I think it's worth taking a quick step back and just taking a moment to really
appreciate the choice of characters for this film franchise that he's created he's put a character a
lead character with a lot of power with a hearing impairment up against monsters who have incredibly
acute hearing it's perfect I mean it's so obvious I don't know why no one's done it before
so then after the man who's praying is silenced by the father we then
join the experience of this horrific situation in the daughter's perspective
the one who has the hearing impairment and we actually get to hear what she hears
which is nothing and this does two things one it lets us know well what is her experience of
it we get to join her in her experience and it makes us more empathetic to her journey
but two it also makes us absolutely hyper sensitive to all sound so why is perspective
so effective at getting us even more tense well it tells us just how everyone
is experiencing this horrific moment because if one person was terrified but
someone else really wasn't that bothered then we might think that it maybe isn't quite so dangerous
but because we get different perspectives young old female male parent child we know that this
situation is terrifying for everybody and that everybody would be in the same boat
the girl's perspective also leads me on to the second technique that John Krasinski has
mastered throughout the Quiet Place film franchise series I mean I'm I I think Quiet
Place One and Two probably could be quite easily put together into one you know giant
three-hour spectacle movie and probably should be done pretty soon in some epic downloadable slash
I mean I would say DVD but I mean who has a DVD player anymore it's kind of sad in a