...Burton uses cinematic techniques such as lighting and camera angles to give his films a scary and creepy look. In some of his movies such as “Edward Scissorhands” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Burton mostly uses dark tones because he was influenced by Dr.Seuss. Lighting and camera angles are important because it shows mood. High-key lighting shows happiness. Burton uses low-key lightning when showing scary images. In “Edward Scissorhands” the lightning is mixed up. Peg’s town is happy and bright looking but in reality the town doesn't like each other and they are hateful to one another. Like Peg’s neighbor who always rude. Edward’s home is huge and dark. Edward is nice but he looks scary. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Charlie’s house...
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...Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques in various ways. The use of cinematic techniques is to bring mood and tone into the story or scene. The three cinematic techniques that Burton uses best is lighting, shots and music. Tim Burton uses lighting to change the different mood in a scene. For example in "Edward scissor hands" Kim's scene of dancing in the ice shavings of Edwards art went from romantic to a hurtful scene. The lighting made the mood feel this way because of the brightness and the dimness of the lighting. In Charlie and the chocolate factory the lighting technique was best used when Charlie had high hopes of finding the golden ticket in his birthday chocolate bar. The lighting technique went from a very twinkling scene to a droopy...
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...Structure of Tim Burton Films: Cinematic Techniques When you hear the creepy, suspenseful music at the beginning of a film, don’t you usually assume that the film will have creepy aspects to it, or even be a horror film? What about when you are at a basketball game? When you hear the crowd cheer don’t you assume one of the teams scored a point? The case is the same in movies. Directors utilize sound to help make the movie you are watching like you are in the movie. Tim Burton uses the cinematic technique of sound to help put emphasis on important events and objects. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton use diegetic and non-diegetic sounds to put help emphasis on an important event and compare different scenes. This important event...
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...Tim Burton is one of the most innovative, creative, and successful directors to have ever come out of Hollywood. To reach this title, Burton creates and uses a unique style. Burton’s style consists of taking happy fairy tales and emphasizing the sinister effects in them. All the while, still making the films kid-friendly. Furthermore, Burton creates his main protagonist as an outcast, for example, Edward in Edward Scissorhands and Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to show how being different is a good thing because both characters still came out very successful. Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques to show that the outcast in society can be one of the most creative or talented individuals in society if given a chance. Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses a close up on Edward’s hands to show and emphasize how different he is and how much potential he has. For example, when Peg first approaches the mansion, the audience sees beautiful sculptures that have been created by Edward. Then, Peg enters the mansion and meets Edward, who she then takes home. During his stay, Edward has so much success with making sculptures and cutting hair that Peg and Edward think about opening a hair salon....
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...Tim Burton is a popular child and young adult film maker. Burton has created many movies that are popular for their gothic and dark feel. The characters in Burton’s movies are usually happy with dark surroundings. In Tim Burton’s film he is very good at using editing skills, music, and lighting to establish a dark and suspenseful setting with strange characters. These cinematic techniques keep the viewers interested in the film. Tim Burton is a very creative writer, he knows and utilizes several techniques to catch the viewer’s eye. For instance, Burton uses lighting to establish a mood. In the introduction of Edward Scissorhands at Edward’s house he used a lot of low key lighting to give the viewer a creepy, more gothic feel about Edward. Lighting is a very important cinematic technique in movies, especially movies like Edward Scissorhands and Charlie In The Chocolate Factory....
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...Tim Burton: An Ingenious Director Do you enjoy watching heartrending fantasies? Tim Burton has directed countless films that have dramatic and depressing moods. In Edward Scissorhands a teenage outsider tries to fit in despite his unique deformity while in Big Fish a son tries to learn more about his dying father by piecing together the stories he has told over the years. This dismal mood is created through the use of close-up camera shots, low-pitched background music and full camera shots. Tim Burton uses a close- up shot in order to show the audience the character’s emotions and reactions after the occurrence of a certain event. For example, when Sandra tells Edward that she’s already engaged to Don Price, Tim uses a close up to show Edward’s reaction to Sandra’s revelation. The close up on Edward’s face allows the audience to feel sad and somewhat sorry for Edward giving this scene a heartrending mood. Another example using this cinematic technique can be found in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Willy Wonka’s father throws all of his Halloween candy into the burning furnace. The close up on Willy Wonka’s face shows us the sadness in Wonka’s eyes and his longing to eat a piece of chocolate without his father going to extreme measures. This demonstrates how Tim Burton can use a simple cinematic technique to create a heartrending mood throughout the scene. Tim Burton uses dramatic and depressing background music constantly throughout all of his...
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...The movies Edward Scissorhands to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beetlejuice to Batman. These films directed by Tim Burton caught the eye of many people the unique cinematic techniques used in his films.Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques like lighting, camera angle, and shots and framing to set the mood of his movies for his audience. First of all, Tim Burton uses low key lighting creating a mood of suspense for the audience. In Edward Scissorhands, Burton uses this when Peg first meets Edward in the attic. This technique made it feel like Edward could really hurt Peg. When Edward was in the attic it was filled with darkness and created suspense which made the audience curious about what will happen next. In the movie Charlie...
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...factory Tim Burton uses long shots to add a of reference the size of the scene and also to add an effect of mood.To start off with during the film Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton used the filming technique long shot to add a larger effect to the area. Such as during the scene where peg is walking up the grand staircase Tim Burton used long shot to show the inter of the mansion to add on to the already gloomy mansion. This also shows how much money and wealth that the inventor had that once occupied the mansion. Additionally, Tim Burton also uses long shot during the film Charlie in the chocolate factory. An example is when the Oompa Loompas were singing their song after Augustus gloop fell into the chocolate river. The long shot in this scene showed the colossal size of the chocolate room. It also shows how many Oompa Loompas willy Wonka has and compare their size to the surrounding props. Second, In the films big fish and Charlie in the chocolate factory. Tim Burton uses color to add a sad to happy or a happy to sad effect. To start of with during the scenes. When Ed Bloom first discovered the town spector the town was very colorful which brought kinda a joyful experience to the viewer. But when Ed Bloom went back to spector the town was all run down there was no...
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...Many famous directors spend years developing his own style. Direct do this by using certain cinematic techniques repeatedly. Tim Burton is an american film director,producer,artist,writer,and animator. He is known for his dark,gothic,and eccentric horror and fantasy films. Tim Burton’s style is to use certain cinematic techniques repeatedly in their different films by using lighting,shot frames,and sound. Cinematic techniques that can be viewed in the 1st film in different camera angles. When all the ladies knew about Edward they wanted to know him a lot better, so they went to knock on there door. Burton uses this technique to show us that those girls are crazy and very excited.The lady told Edward to sit down, so she started to take off her...
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...Individuality is the vibrant streak of starlight in the black night. Individuality makes you the distinctive duckling in the crowd of adorable chicks. Yet is “different” truly such an atrocious thing? Tim Burton--renowned director and producer of movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--rebels against this common assumption by revolving his cinematic works around the importance of uniqueness. Inspired by Ray Harryhausen classic horror films and Roger Corman’s Vincent Price, he fused his contrasting light and dark moods to develop powerful themes behind his films, enhancing the value of individuality. To this day, his cinematic works empower many people with a new sense of pride in themselves. Tim Burton’s films use non-diegetic music, shot-reverse-shot, and close-up techniques to convey his thoughts about individuality and uniqueness. As long as Tim Burton uses close-ups, the unique traits of certain characters are repeatedly highlighted. Close-ups are when the images being shot take up at least 80% of the entire frame. Edward Scissorhands is a key example of Tim Burton’s ability to utilize close-up shots to add to the overall theme of individuality. Whenever Edward is using his scissor-hands--whether it’s to cut hair or chop lettuce--the scissors are consistently shown in a close-up. As a result, Edward’s hands are established as an significant feature that sets him apart from others. Similarly, in Charlie and the...
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...with a physical disability trying to fit in with the real world after years of confinement and loneliness. In Edward Scissorshands Tim Burton uses high key lighting and flashback in order to establish a theme to make the viewer look at a person from the inside instead of outside. In Edward Scissorshands Tim Burton uses High key lighting when Edward and Pam were driving through the neighborhood after Edward first comes out of the mansion for the first time. High key lighting is used in this scene to show Edward expression as he is in aw from the colorful houses and the flowers and plants and many children playing outside this displays a new chapter in Edward’s life to move away from the house. Also in Edward Scissorshands Tim uses flashback when Edward looks at the can opener then the flashback is triggered. In this flashback it shows how Edward used to be and how he came about. His was an inventor and he got the idea from a robot making cookies in his factory and he got the idea to make that robot into a human. Tim Burton also uses flashback when during the whole movie until the end this story is told by Kim to her granddaughter and everything that happened had happen in the past. During the movie I think Burton uses these cinematic techniques to show the viewer a different side visually. I think with these cinematic techniques Tim Burton he reveals his true potential as a film maker it brings color with the high key lighting and it brings out a more in depth story...
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...Films such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish have a whimsical style like Walt Disney, and dark mood like Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces of literature. This is because Tim Burton, the director of these film, was inspired by these people and he creates their type of style using cinematic techniques. Some examples of film techniques that all these films share are flashback, low-key lighting, and non-diegetic sound. Flashback is when a scene goes in to the past to show previous events. Low key lighting is when a scene is flooded with shadows and nondiegetic sound is when there are sounds and music that are only meant for the viewer to hear. FIlm techniques can use many different types of effects and ways to create...
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...Tim Burton Tim burton's movies uses lighting, music and shots to contrast Fantasy and darkness to set a sense of mood for the audience to enjoy and resonate with his films tim burton uses cinematic techniques to portray only what he can show through his own imagination. In the Movie Willy wonka the beginning of the movie he shows the characters life style how poor and unwealthy he strongly uses lighting in that scene because it portrays the mood of sadness and sorrow and hope. He uses the lighting again for when in a scene where willy wonka's factory chocolate workers were stealing his secret recipe to candy. It shows Discrete and Mischievous thievery cheating in Willy wonka's movie it showed an important lesson to be grateful for what you have and do not have and to mostly not be greedy, selfish or mean to others....
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...man is viewed from slightly above. How does this make you feel? It causes the audience to feel excited, nervous, and anxious about what will happen to the weak man. Tim Burton in Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands utilizes cinematic techniques to cause the audience to feel certain emotions. Before the events of Big Fish, Will and his dad, Edward, would not talk to each other. After Will's father gets sick, Will rushes to his father's house via a plane. There his father shares pieces of his life story before his death. In Edward Scissorhands, Peggy drives around a neighborhood trying to sell items to people. She goes to the creepy, dark mansion on the mountain. There, Peggy finds a man...
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...Tim Burton’s use of Lighting and Coloration Techniques in Film Burton has made memorable films with the use of many cinematic techniques to convey a common theme through each film. Many of his ideas are stemmed from his childhood where he was a part of an unloving family and left alone with his dog who then passed away. His upbringing is often reflected and influenced how he created his films. Burton uses low and high key lighting and coloration to express feelings of isolation and communicate a common theme of self discovery. Burton has a unique way of utilizing lighting to express feelings of isolation and emphasize a character’s pathway towards self-discovery. In Burton’s Corpse Bride, the living world is portrayed as a dark and gloomy...
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