As the designers of that sound, how did that make you feel? Did being under the microscope make you agonize over every sound?Įrik Aadahl (EA): People might mistakenly think that doing a film like this is easier than doing a big, loud, bombastic, wall-to-wall sound job. This film makes the audience pay attention to every little sound.
So we were thrilled by the whole concept. For this film, we were even pushed to go to a place where we were able to play with dynamics, and play with perspectives, and play with silence, which is something we are always trying to do but we have never before had a story that is so heavily reliant on going to those places. Left to right: Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahlĭirector John Krasinski comes to you and says, “I want to make a film about not making a sound, and I want you to do the sound for it.” What were your first thoughts?Įthan Van der Ryn (EV): Super-excitement, and just being really thrilled with the whole idea of going to a place that we’ve been trying to go to but haven’t been allowed to. Here, Van der Ryn and Aadahl share insight on how they created the sound for A Quiet Place - a film in which there’s no place for sound to hide. They’ve done numerous creatures for films, most recently for Pacific Rim: Uprising, Transformers: The Last Knight, Trolls, Goosebumps, Godzilla of course, and many, many more. They’re “creature sound” experts at this point. Sound designers Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl at E² Sound not only created the varying level of quiet sounds for this film, they also created all the creatures’ sounds. Their hearing is super-sensitive, so it’s imperative to be as quiet as possible in order to survive. In A Quiet Place, the planet is infested with creatures that use sound to hunt their prey. Everyone stopped, mid-crunch, and became totally silent. As the film was beginning, the audience was still settling in -opening snack bags and crunching on popcorn, then something interesting happened. This film about staying quiet shined such a spotlight on sound that the audience became acutely aware of every little sound they were making. Seeing Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place in the theaters was an interesting movie-going experience.
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