Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things analysis

 COSTUME:

The man in the beginning was wearing a lab coat so that indicated to us that he is a scientist of some sort and is probably someone of high intelligence or high importance. The lab coat could also indicate to us that the scientist could have ben working on something that could be possibly dangerous because some scientists work on things like that. After that is shows us a group of 4 boys playing a game and they are wearing casual clothes that you would wear day to day. the clothing gives us the casual late 90s feeling ands vibe. Their clothing also links to the setting.

SETTINGS & PROPS:

The first thing we see is a government laboratory that has a sign saying "restricted government area". The lab has an elevator and mostly white walls. There were lights that were flickering on and off, perhaps to give us the eerie feeling and set the mood to something that gives us an ominous feeling. Also the fact that is had a sign saying it was restricted makes us wonder what the lab had in it to make it restricted. This adds on the the ominous feeling. The man entered the elevator in a panic and as the door closed the man lifted up as if he was getting choked showing something went wrong and showing there is a monster on the loose. The next cut shows a house with 4 friends playing a board game and most of the lights were off, again adding on to the mood. There was a television that was static implying that what ever this monster is, is effecting the electronics(the lights and the TV). The friends left the other friends house on their bikes while it was night time and dark and gloomy. One of the friends was going home when they saw a silhouette and ran home fining a gun and then too the lights were flickering. The monster ended us getting the boy and disappeared.

LIGHTING & COLOUR:

Throughout the whole clip there was a re-occurring theme and that was that the lights were flickering. In the laboratory the lights were flickering.