Stranger Things Representation Essay

How are different social group represented in the sequence you have analysed? What role does the use of media language, signs and signifies have in constructing and presenting these representation a real?

In the first episode we can see so many different social groups represented like teenagers, government and parents. Some of this social groups fits with the typical stereotype and others portray as counter type as they don't fit the usual representation.

There are two group of teenagers represented: the pre-teens and the older teens. From the start of the episode, we see that the group of boys are typical nerdy type characters as they play the board game. This signifies that they may not be the most popular kids at school as they would much rather stay in for long periods of time to play a board game rather than go out. Whilst playing the board game, we see how emerged they get themselves within the game by the slow moving panning extreme close ups of the boys facial expressions., completely concentrated in their role within the game. This representation is further shown with the boys knowledge of comic books. Stereotypical, a nerdy character is represented as quite weak and feeble however, they boys are portrayed a strong and confident. Mike is portrayed as the leader of the group, the one who makes the decisions. Dustin is portrayed as confident as when faced with the bullies, he stands up and defends himself. Will is also shown has brave when being chased by the monster.

Another social groups that we see a lot of throughout the first episode are the government and the police. Dr Benner is the main portrayed we see of the government. When first meeting him, he is portrayed as quite mysterious, suspicious and authoritative. This is reinforced when he exists a car and the camera oans up slowly from his feet to his face therefore we slowly are introduced him but only see his face last.
Later in the episode we see that the government are portrayed as malicious as we see that the kind caring social workers are actually from the government and kills Benny, an innocent and kind man. We know that she is part of the government as we see Brenner walk in afterwards. They don't feel bad for murdering someone showing that they are villainous. The police force in the episode are portrayed as the stereotypical lazy cops, this is shown by their actions in first minutes of the episode, playing cards, completely distracted. But during the episode we can see that Hopper is not a bad person but is really caring and we can find out about his deceased daughter.