Case Study- A Quiet Place Day One

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Have you ever heard of the film a quiet place? If you haven’t then let me let you in on what it is about. A quiet place: Day one is a 2024 American film about a terminally ill woman during the early stages of an invasion in New York City by blind, extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing (known unofficially as "Death Angels"). Extraterrestrial creatures rely on their acute hearing to track down their prey (hence the name “A quiet place”). The main themes of this film are sacrifice, compassion, and the power of humanity. 

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A Quiet Place: Day One is produced by Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night Productions, and Paramount Pictures, these production companies are renowned for their work in horror, thrillers, and action films, with Platinum Dunes known for horror reboots like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The casting focused on emotional depth, with Lupita Nyong’o selected for her commanding presence, Joseph Quinn chosen for his Stranger Things performance and chemistry with Nyong’o, and Alex Wolff brought in based on director Michael Sarnoski’s experience with him on Pig. Targeted at fans of suspenseful thrillers and the franchise, the film streams exclusively on Paramount+ and was marketed through trailers, social media, and an interactive app. 

The production process of the “A Quiet Place Day One” heavily relied on detailed pre-visualization, extensive location capture of New York City buildings to recreate on the Warner Bros. Some people might ask how this “A Quiet Place Day One” appeals to its audience and what does it need to fulfill it, or “how is the story told and what roles do the characters play”. “A Quiet Place Day One” appeals to its audience by making the audience feel like they are in the film. They fulfill this by having the characters do one action encouraging the audience to do the same. The movie is told through the characters view as the characters are victims to the alien. 
 
To start this, an example of cross-media convergence the film “A Quiet Place: Day one” used, were announcing a game for it as it is currently being in development to further spread the news of the recent film for “A Quiet Place: Day One” and also being “promoted” in an ad for Universal studios to not only show the audience the new film but also a new attraction of kind related to “A Quiet Place: Day One”. An example for technological convergence from the film is the plot to serve as the “first part” before its other parts like the “A Quiet place part 1” and 2 since with Quiet place: Day one, it includes and show the origin of the aliens that first appeared on earth unlike the other films that showed the aliens wandering around earth but now how they first appeared which was the audience wanted to those that were interested in the Franchise but as of now, the film is available on platforms such as Fandango, Amazon Prime, Paramount and other platforms for the audience to watch as Quiet Place Day One is the prequel to its other 2 films. An example of synergy to make the film “A Quiet Place: Day one” were companies such as Paramount Pictures, Platinum Dunes, and Sunday Night that all worked together to create the film that instead of another part, it is a prequel to the other 2 films that the Franchise offers.  

Conclusion: In Conclusion, the film “A Quit Place: Day one” achieved its success by instead of continuing the plot with aliens still invading earth, this prequel takes time back, like in the name, but this film presents the very first day when the aliens invaded the plant which evoked more curiosity to the audience since many of them were impacted to be interested in the franchise which made their mindset to figure out the “lore” or answer of how and why these aliens invaded earth in the first place and what are they exactly? Which the audience would see based on the prequel of “Quiet Place: Day one” and because of this unique plot and storyline in this film, it has a 86% rating on Rotten Tomato and on its opening day, it made about $40 to $50 million dollars though, the challenges of producing the film was the director being overwhelmed with ideas that he could’ve used to produce the film which he had a hard time to focus.