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.