Mise-en-scène: Stranger Things Analysis

 Mise-en-scène: Stranger Things Analysis

Lighting: The lighting was ominous and eerie most of the time meaning that it stayed dark throughout the whole trailer. Since it stayed dark throughout the whole trailer we can infer that Stranger Things the movie is going to be a horror / action movie. The dark lighting is there to create suspense in the trailer and it stays fast paced until the music cuts off and the victims encounter the unknown monster featured in the trailer.

Props: Most of the props were automatic and almost futuristic showing us that the film could be possibly set in the future where everything is advanced and not making the idea of monsters and demo-gorgons seem too off the charts or over-the-top and possible. The automatic props ranged from simply automatically opening doors and motion sensor triggered lights to automatic sprinklers set on timer which we see when we are teleported to the back-garden of the house where the kids are having a sleepover.

Setting: We are first shown an underground secret dark / dim-lit laboratory which could suggest illegal activity an with the sneak peak of the monsters shadow we get, we can infer that the laboratory has something to do with that. At the start, there was alarms blaring and flashing lights possibly signalling the breakout of the monster that the laboratory could've been testing on and that is the monster that the kid on the bike encounters on his way home while trespassing on U.S Governments property.