Our first encounter of a setting in this film is what appears to be a theatre stage in black and white. We are greeted politely by a male character, who speaks directly to the audience breaking the fourth wall. Almost intimidating the audience to fear the film before it has started. This use of setting is very influential as it contrasts and connects the fiction of the film and the use of a theatre connects this to the real world giving us the ability to suspend our disbelief and trust someone who has forewarned us of the events to come.
After this the most influential use of setting i found was the use of light and dark to create unnerving or dangerous settings. with darkness being something which connotates to death and danger this effects our own emotions toward the film, as we expect to fear something due to the dark setting. The introduction of setting following the theatrical beginning. Is the use of a grave yard where we see many statues and other symbols of both death and religion. this is something that we identified as a class to be related to Gothic texts and this is certainly present in this interpretation of Frankenstein.
For me another very notable feature of setting used in this interpretation is the use of setting to create an interpretation as toward the blame of what caused the monster. In this case setting is seen as responsible, that nature has caused this phenomenal monster as it was created by the striking of electricity which is part of natural science. This is interesting as it may link to the time in which it was made when science was becoming a more important factor of lives.
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