Misce-en-scene

 I chose to do my misce-en-scene post on the first episode of Stranger Things (S 1 E 1). This show starts off with a boy in the main characters friend group that goes missing when going on a bike ride home. Throughout the entirety of the first season a group of friends discover that their town is not what it seems. Throughout the first season the group of friends are introduced to someone who claims to be named Eleven, Eleven has one of the most significant parts to the story line due to the fact that she knows how to fight off the town's mysteries.

The first episode starts off with a boy named Will on his way home after a night at his friends house. In this scene we are shown a low key lighting when a single light on Will's bicycle emits all the light in the scene. In this scene the bike's light makes everything in the scene visible but not quite to make everything out clearly. Next in this scene Will finds out that something has been watching him the entire time and he throws himself off the bike to avoid it.

The next portion of this scene also emits low key lighting when Will tries to run and hide in a shed where he believes is safe. In this shed the only light source is a singular lightbulb that hangs from the ceiling, after the lightbulb flickers Will appears to have disappeared. Also another portion of this scene that is important is when Will runs to the shed we get to see the telephone he uses, the car in the driveway, and his outfit, these all show the setting of the show takes place a couple decades back. 

In the last scene of the first episode, we see the use of blocking when Mike leads the group into the forest in search of their friend Will. This shows that Mike is almost the leader of the group and that he knows what is best for them. In the final scene they are introduced to Eleven who seems to have been lost.