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Let's roll.
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They had a spec script.
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It was a little bit more of
a horror movie, the spec that I read,
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and, to me, the idea was so good,
that idea of family.
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The idea of how
this family communicates...
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Amazing!
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...to laying out sand paths
so that they can walk quietly.
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How far can we take it?
How deep can we go?
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It was extremely scary.
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The biggest challenge for me
going in was,
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"How are we gonna make this movie
as interesting as possible
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"without having dialogue?"
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When you don't have dialogue in a movie,
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you have to bring the world to the movie
in a different way.
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Then you realize within
one or two days of shooting
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that actually, the thing
I was most scared of
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kind of became our superpower,
which is...
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I started realizing very early on that
there was a real power in the room
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to not speaking.
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We started shooting these scenes and
realizing what the barn sounded like,
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what the forest sounded like.
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All these things really came to life
on their own.
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Sound design started to become apparent,
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how important it would be
when we were shooting.
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- Th ree!
- Th ree.
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Action!
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It's funny, I remember,
the casting and the crew
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where most of the crew
had to learn how to be quiet because...
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- I just needed the major...
- Right.
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"Well, it's a quiet movie,
so we'll just dub it all out.
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"We can be as loud as we want."
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I was like, "No, no, no,
quite the opposite.
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"We actually need you to be more quiet
than you've ever been on set."
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Okay, ready?
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It was actually really funny
to do it all together.
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The actors were learning how to be quiet
because we were in the scenes.
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- Cut.
- Cut.
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One of the first days, we were
on a bridge, and all of a sudden,
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it's almost like a zen experience
where you stop and say to yourself,
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"I'm just gonna stop, not say anything,
not do anything and just listen." Right?
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And all of a sudden, you hear water
and you hear trees,
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and it sounds super heady,
but it's true.
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Then, sounds started being introduced
into the way we shot
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knowing full well that we would
have to design a lot more.
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In the horror genre, there's no more
powerful special effect than sound.
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To go into Regan's head,
we turn the sound off in the movie.
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We don't even have backgrounds on.
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There's always backgrounds on
in a movie.
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There's always some sort of ambiance,
from a room tone,
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to outside, to crickets, to wind.
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There's two or three times in the movie
where we turn it off completely.
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We were so nervous, at least I was.
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The first time we did it, I'm like,
"I think the speakers are broken."
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Then we found the greatest people
on Earth for this.
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They've done so much incredible stuff.
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People might assume that a film that's
really quiet and has a lot of silence
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is a lot easier to do
for sound designers
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than a big bombastic
wall-to-wall extravaganza.
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In fact, the opposite is true.
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It's just as hard to do a quiet film,
if not harder.
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You are naked.
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Every little detail
becomes a huge thing.
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The cool part was,
they've done such huge movies
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like the Transformers movies
and things like that,
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that they were so excited
to get a movie that was really intimate.
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Talk about a risky thing that's unlike
anything I've ever worked on.
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One of the really interesting challenges
was creating contrast.
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It's like, "How many different shades
of quiet can we have?"
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We really tried to create an environment
that followed the rules.
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The idea that the creatures
had wiped out
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a lot of the humans
and a lot of the animals,
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we were really careful
to keep it to insects.
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We didn't have any songbirds.
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It was really fun to play
with the different levels
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and the different tiers of sound.
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It creates a really different
psycho-acoustic experience.
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When you start taking away sounds,
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the sounds you do play
become way more powerful.
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The foley team, Foley One in Toronto,
they did a fantastic job
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because this is a really
demanding movie to work on.
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All those little details
are just exposed.
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You're gonna hear every single footstep.
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It's got to be just right.
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That's fun having an audience, too,
just hanging onto every little footstep
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and being afraid to eat their popcorn
in the theater.
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Some of the feedback we've been getting
from people is kind of interesting.
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When they've gotten
out of the movie theater,
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they've started to hear the world
around them in a different way,
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and that's just super gratifying.
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People who are watching
this movie at home,
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turn off the dishwasher,
shut all the doors and windows,
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and really try and create
the quietest environment you can.
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Sound played just as much a role
as it does in Transformers,
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but in a completely different way.
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You're not fighting with dialogue,
that actually, sound is the movie.
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It was really cool to see people
at the level that they're at get giddy,
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like legitimately giddy, about
doing this, and that was really fun.
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That energy was contagious.
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- Cut?
- Cut. All right.
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Let's clear... Clear Leon...
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Okay.
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You're not gonna get
back in that grass Leon.
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Thank you.
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That's it for Leon, everybody!
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You're good, Leon!
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"What noise does the alien make?"
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It's a huge problem.
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We have spent so much time
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just figuring out, "If the alien hates
noise, why would it make noise?"
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In Jaws, you had the theme, right?
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The shark didn't make any noise.
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We couldn't do that 'cause we didn't
want to rely on music every time.
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"How much vocalization
do we give to the alien?"
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Or, "Is it better not to do any..."
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I mean, we've spent years,
it feels like, arguing back and forth.
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Luckily, one of the benefits of having
Michael Bay as your partner is
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you get to work with people
that he works with on his movies,
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and so, our sound team is the guys
that work on Bay's movies
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who've been doing this for a long time.
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They weigh in and have a lot of insight
and have done this more than we have,
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and we all came to an agreement.
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But, it was not easy to figure that out.
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In the very beginning,
in the initial screenings that we had,
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the alien wasn't in the movie
because it's all visual effect,
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and at the same time,
you have to show the movie to people
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so that they understand what's happening
'cause they have no way to evaluate it.
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So, initially, the alien
was screeching and clicking.
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I mean, it was super loud.
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Some of the screeching, to me, sounded
like fingernails on a chalkboard,
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and it was just too much
and too uncomfortable.
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Feedback that's causing the aliens
to convulse, that was really loud.
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Ultimately, we came to the decision,
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"These aliens like a world
that's silent."
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We have to limit their sounds
to the bare minimum.
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For A Quiet Place,
sound is all about what you don't see.
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It really allows the audience
to participate in the process
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and use their imagination
to scare themselves.
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I was gonna have
a lot more music in the movie.
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We were unbelievably lucky to get Marco.
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Marco had done
some of my favorite scores
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like The Hurt Locker and World War Z,
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and these things that are big
action-y things, but have so much heart,
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he does that in music.
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He wrote all this incredible music,
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and then it was about how much music
we used, and when we used it,
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and where it was more sparse
and where it was more
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a character in the film,
and, "Do you feel the presence of it?"
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I didn't want the score
to be wall-to-wall,
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I wanted it to let the family
do the work.
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He was such a great partner in this
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'cause he was one of the people
who understood what this movie was,
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and how to get where we were going.
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In this day and age
with the phones and everything,
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we just don't get a chance to listen.
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So then, when you're doing a scene
where no one can talk
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and they're just walking
through the woods,
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and you're recording that sound,
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you start to think,
"Oh, my God, this is really cool."
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Like, "People are actually
gonna pay attention to this
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"rather than just go,
'I get it, it's woods. I get it.'
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"And you're like, 'Yeah, but what does
woods really sound like?"'
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