Research on Stranger Things Series 1 Episode 1

 Stranger Things is a Netflix original drama which originally premiered worldwide on the website on the 15th July 2016. The show has 3 seasons and a 4th one is coming soon.

The show stars actors Winona Rider, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Natalia Dyer, Noah Schnapp, Charlie Heaton, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb Mclaughlin. 

The show was created by the Duffer brothers, who are also executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. The genre of the show is a mix between Science fiction, Horror and a period drama. It is set in the 1980's.

Stranger things has won 6 Emmy awards, as well as being nominated for 39 and 3 people's choice awards. The show has also been nominated for 4 golden globes, a British academy television award and many more.

Netflix is an American streaming service which was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. As of April 2020, 193 million people pay for a Netflix subscription across the world. Netflix also has a series of it's own films and tv shows called Netflix originals which they began in 2013, with the first series being called House of Cards.

Season one, Episode of the Stranger Things is set in November 1983, when some researchers open a rift to a different dimension called the upside down. A monster escapes from the upside down and kidnaps 12 year old Will Byers on his way home from his friend Mikes house. As well as a monster escaping the lab, a young psychokinetic girl called Eleven escapes too. She goes originally to a cafe where the owner takes pity on her and feeds her before calling social services to come pick her up. The cafe is raided by people from the Lab pretending to be Social Services, they kill the owner and try to take Eleven back to the Lab however she uses her powers and manages to get away. She then meets Mike, Dustin and Lucas who hide her in Mikes basement for the night after they find her alone in the dark woods.

This is a medium close up shot of Eleven after she has escaped the laboratory

She is wearing a hospital gown, and the background is the beginning of a forest which she had previously been walking through. This shot is the first time we are introduced to Eleven, and it is the morning after she escaped the lab. 

  

This is also a medium close up shot of Will moments before he gets kidnapped.

In this scene, Will is holding a gun up at the closed door of his shed waiting for the monster which has been chasing him. This shot type is effective as it really captures the fear on his face. This is the last scene we see Will before he is kidnapped.

This a is a medium close up shot of Will's mother on the phone to his Father's girlfriend.

It is taken from inside their home, and his mother is wearing her works uniform still which shows how she is worried about her son as she doesn't bother getting changed, she just desperately contacts the police and then his father. This shot is effective as it shows the disgust on her face when Wills fathers girlfriend is incredibly rude to her and doesn't allow her to explain how Will is missing.