Stranger Things

Trailer:

• Voiceover
• Eerie music
• Horror music
• 80's Nostalgia
• Teen, horror, sci-fi- Hybrid genres
• Introduction to all the characters
• Fear of the unknown
• The town where nothing ever happens
• Barthes- Codes: Symbolic, Action (things that happen), Enigma (unsolved mystery)
• Branding of Netflix logo
• Dialogue reveals investigating narrative
• Mise-En-Scene: Chopper Bikes identify 1980's time period
• Iconography- The significant props of science fiction
• The paranormal as a convention of Sci-Fi (Realism and Non Realism)
• Audiences first introduction to eleven- representation of Todorovs theory, equilibrium gets disrupted
• Audiences are immediately positioned by time period and setting
• The film sixth sense represents Eleven having special powers
• Children are central protagonists, individual identities- Will, Mike, Dustin, Lucas
• Eerie non diegetic sound- Horror conventions
• Camera tilts down ( common camera movement)- Department of energy possible science fiction enigma
• Lighting malfunction, fleeing scientist
• Diegetic sound of monster- horror conventions
• Suburburn lawn with sprinklers and house show connotations of middle class neighbourhood- Todorovian disruption
• Major characters suggest diversity with three children being obsessed with a board game
• Themes of family and friendships
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