Stranger Things
  • Director: Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke
  • Year: 2009
  • DP: Eleanor Burke
  • Production Designer and Costume Designer: Kristen Adams
The film "Stranger Things" is about a woman who returns home from University to cope with her past while two traveling vagabonds attempt to deal with the present and future. Paths are crossed and friendships are made. The locations in England included a makeover of five interiors: two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a caravan, of a small cottage. The set dressing had an arc of a dusty discovery from time stood still to the clutter of items and memories as the character rehashes the past. Production design highlights included the design and decoration of the cottage interiors, traveling props and a homeless trolley, exteriors, shops, and landscape of the outdoor beaches and yards.
Sections from skecthbook for groundplans and renderings.
Research of decor.
Research of decor.
Production designed kitchen.
Production designed girl's room.
Production designed sun room.
Production designed mother's room.
Production designed shed and caravan.
Production design breakdown for Bagman character. Costumes.
Production design breakdown for Oona character. Costumes.
Production design breakdown for Mani character. Costumes.
The vagabonds were distressed and weathered from life on the streets. The trolley was designed with color and texture.
The caravan was an abadoned distressed home for the character before he discovers the small cottage.
Window drapery was replaced with tea stained sheers and lace.
As Oona revisits her mother's bedroom she is confronted with layers of dust and faded familiar drawings.
The bedroom was heavy detailed and distressed with details of drawings and papers.
Care was taken in the full design of the room. The mother was an artist and room called for character and color.
Oona's childhood room still had her colors, dressing, and familiar characters.
Oona begins to discover familiar belongings. The kitchen was a cluttered location that at one point was being transitioned.
The set design went through massive continuity to film the location cluttered, distresed, and eventually cleaned.
The two characters begin to know each other as they sort through boxes and memories.
The living room in a dressed transitional stage.
Oona sorts through her and her mother's belongings and finds personal props that define their life.
Intense moment in the bedroon. Oonas costumes being to take on color different from her previous grey palette.
The shop was dressed with graphics, props, and bags.
The vagabond resorts to the beach with his cart. The cart carries all his possessions.
Film still of characters traveling together.
The two vagabonds on their journey.