Analysis of final scenes

Camera

Frame - E.g. Close up
Angle - E.g. Birdseye 
Movement - E.g. Tracking

- High angle looking down on social worker  from Benny – Patriarchy
- Extreme close up on phone after it falls connoting extreme panic. 
- Most camera shots of the young people were eye level showing equality amongst us and directly with the audience
- Gun shot was long shot of Connie which cut to close up of Eleven. This shot demonstrates panic
- Level three shot of boys in woods with Mike in the front showing he is the leader
- Two mid shot of Jonathon and Joyce close on the sofa signifies closeness in relationship

Mise En Scene

Costume

Lighting

Acting

Make-up

Props 

Setting

- Byers’ house – dim lighting, brown clothes, 80s interior connoting poverty 

- Yellow phone contrasts and stands out showing it is important and for communication to Will.

- Benny’s diner is where Eleven seeks shelter - is a stereotypical suburban diner.

- Woods is dark and raining with thunder showing pathetic fallacy that something bad may happen.

- Nancy’s bedroom is stereotypical of a studious teenage girl in the 80s.

- Choppers, torches, shine Eleven’s, theme of light within the final scenes. 

Sound

Music

Contrapuntal

Diegetic/Non diegetic

Off screen/on screen

Voiceover

Emotion

Dialogue

- Off screen sound of pot wash in Benny’s diner to on screen of Benny washing 

- Off screen diegetic knocking showing disruption in the narrative and raises alarm 

- Diegetic dialogue ‘you don’t sound the same as you did on the phone’ shows suspicion 

- Non diegetic contrapuntal song commences as soon as Benny is shot – White Rabbit Jefferson – volume and pace increase as Eleven runs away emphasising the panic and the disruption.

- Non diegetic sci fi instrumental emphasises tension when the boys find Eleven 

- Joyce on the phone with on screen diegetic sound of mysterious creature/ potentially Will.

- Nancy’s room – Africa Toto is contrapuntal – romantic mood – 80s theme

Editing

Screen time

Transitions

Order of narrative

Pace 

Special effects

- Many jump cuts in Nancy's room showing the close proximity between her and Steve and intimacy.

- Pace of cuts increase when Connie shoots Benny connoting danger and panic. 

- Sound effect of electric bang when the phone cuts out showing that Will may be in danger. Sci fi. 

- Shot reverse shot during conversations between two people showing follow of dialogue. 

- Order of the narrative – multi stranded narrative underlines the LFTVD drama conventions. 

- Most scenes happen simultaneously except Eleven’s escape and discovery which links the characters at the end of the episode leaving on a cliff hanger for the next episode.