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Emili Sande still shots Image one - Streets of London with cars and a tree, eye level shot. Emili Sande is on the left hand side looking upwards. This connotes that she is looking up to heaven linking with the name and meaning of the song. The mise-en-scene connotes Emili Sande’s identity with London as it is her home. Image two - Close up shot of Emili Sande, yet she is not looking directly into the camera, suggesting the focus of the video is not on her star persona, rather the meaning of the song. The miss-en-scene of a window out looking the rougher parts of London shows she is apart of the reality. Image three - Located in the Tube which is iconic to London and she is centred in the frame using the rule of thirds. This suggests she is a part of the realistic side of London and is a normal person making her identifiable instead of admirable as she is not  ring perceived as a star. Image four - A little boy is sitting on stairs in an apartment building setting again sugg
THE KILLING Nordic noir genre Includes other genres such as Crime, horror, thriller and mystery. - written from a police POV - dark, bleak settings, night shooting - along with the muse-en-scene. The mood + tone is dark e.g explores parental grief - protagonists are complex, do to conform to any stereotype - challenging themes and issues explored e.g rape, misogyny and racism. at the end of the first episode - Nanas body is found on Monday after she’s been missing since Friday. - Lund and her family are moving to Sweden -  Scandal with left and right wing politicians.
Genre in stranger things Genre is a category of entertainment that changes rapidly. Stranger things is a polygeneric show including teenage love story, si-fi, high school drama, buddy, thriller, horror and coming of age genres. Stranger things is heavily influenced by 80s films making genres evoke (intertextual relay) Steve Neale’s genre theory - Genres are not fixed, it constantly evolves and becomes genre Hybrid. David hesmondhalgh - Narratives repeat themselves pastiche - eleven is based on 3 characters: E.T, the girl from fire starter and Carrie. Stranger things embraces intertextuality. Intertextuality - E.T - nightmare on elm street - goonies - stand by me - shining - alien - poltergeist - Carrie - fire starter - commando - close encounter of the third kind - explorers .
USA in the 1980s. - rise of Yuppie culture - cable goes mainstream, MTV music video programme - spread of aids/ HIV - developments in the space programme - war on drugs - tense relations with Iran - 1981 cuts, economy programme, yet government spending on military - electronics development, Nintendo console - oil spill in 1989 - 1987 Wall Street crash - the assassination of John Lennon - Cold War ends and concern shifts to China. - overall fear of the unknown How does stranger things mirror the 80s? The highest grossing film in the 80’s was E.T. Stranger things uses intertextuality from E.T as well as  similar components (scenes and characters e.g eleven) to mirror the 1980s despite being made in 2016. Steven Kings IT similarly uses a group of misfit friends as heroes - anti-hero as well as other recurring themes such as high school and mystery which are presented constantly throughout stranger things. The duffer brothers have used the work of Steven King and Spielberg