Dark Knight Rises

Tim Burton done this to help the movie have a dark twist or to help the movie take a serious turn. In the movie Edward Scissorhands you see low key lighting when they show the castle. Nightmare Before Christmas shows a lot of low key lighting too. When Jack sings his song about taking Christmas away. They use low key lighting to show his song is dark and scary.

For example, in the main part of the clip (where all the murders arrive), each murder stands in a different lighting. The room is not just dark to create suspense and a horrific scene or not just light to show innocence. All different lightings are displayed throughout this scene because there is minimal importance. Many other elements rise over the element of lighting during this

Most of the actors are wearing darker clothing as well which makes their faces stand out even more. This lighting style also adds to the tension and the mystery of the scene. It makes the audience on edge. The contrast filled lighting of film noir is also effective at bringing out the extremes of emotions and thought. The darkness of the genre makes anything that goes wrong seem less taboo, because the lighting of the genre sets up the norms for the world that the film lives in—and in that world, bad things happen. The lighting of the film helps the audience understand the world that the characters are in.

This is commonly done in Edward Scissorhands. As Peg ventures further into the mansion, low key lighting is applied when Edward comes forth from out of the shadows. As soon as the audience discovers Edward shadowed in darkness, with his sharp blades for hands, they begin to believe that he is a harmful character. It is only when Peg offers to take him home that the audience realizes that he is not the menacing man they had previously thought he was. Through the use of low key lighting along with his dark image, the audience must get to know Edward for who he truly is in order for them to be capable of understanding that he is not an evil character.

Director Tim Burton exploits lighting to construct a suspenseful and dismaying feeling in the audience. One way Burton does this is when he uses low key lighting in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For example,when Willy Wonka ventures through the jungle, the low key lighting creates shadows cast by the leaves surrounding Willy Wonka making the area seem more dangerous; with the tension that the fierce creatures that inhabit the jungle will come to attack. By creating the dismaying feeling of the jungle and it’s creatures,

A style of lighting where a scene is flooded with shadows and darkness, creating suspense or suspicion is called low key lighting. For example, in his movie Edward Scissorhands, the scenery of the mansion where Peg explores and then later discovers Edward is dark and creepy. This shows that the low key lighting gave the audience a sense that Edward is scary when he really is friendly. Another example from his movie Edward Scissorhands is when Edward and Jim argue and fight in Edward’s dark and creepy mansion. This illustrates the dim and sad lighting that Tim Burton loves to use is displayed when they are fighting.

Not only does the lighting tells us the tone of the film, but it also provides a psychoanalytic aspect of the film, through lighting we are told when to be scared , when to be fearful, and when to be anxious. It also uses a lot of shadow effect to help the audience to see what is part is visible either from L.B. apartment looking into his neighbor's apartment, or the way around. Nearly at the final scene, when L.B. is spying at Mr. Thorwald, he hurry up turn his light off to prevent Thorwald from seeing himself, it is just exactly what we do in real life when we did not want anyone to see us. In final scene when Thorwald tries to kill L.B., L.B. uses camera flash to protect himself, as he flash his camera light, the screen turns red for a second, it makes us feel that we are in Thorwald position, really feel like we got flash by the camera

Tim Burton uses lighting to set the mood and create suspense. One example is in the film “Edward Scissorhands” , when Peg goes into Edward's house to look for him and Edward is hiding in the dark corner. Burton uses lighting to set the mood because in the scene Edward is hiding in the dark corner and Peg

Lighting was a key cinematic technique that Well's used to project a character's persona in the film. He used shadows to hide or mask the faces of the seemingly corrupt characters, like the reporters who are trying to find the meaning of rosebud. He also used backlighting, when light is cast onto the characters from the opposite side of the camera, to create silhouette's .Single source lighting was another technique used to focus the viewers attention on a important prop or action that was taking place. For example, when the reporter is allowed to see the book of Kane there is one window through which all it's light is focused on the book emphasizing its importance.

Lighting as we know, creates the atmosphere for the setting, it establishes the overall tone for what the audience sees. Lighting is key in filming, as it can change tones from scene to scene to create a certain subliminal meaning. For instance the contrasting light from character to character to allow the viewer to understand the differences. Throughout the movie “The Dark Knight” we are able to see how the lighting allows for the directors subliminal meaning to seek through; darkness within. As the name of the movie suggests “Dark Knight” the movies overall tone is set in the darkness. This dark atmosphere allows for an eerie feeling, tension to build up and an anxiety feeling for the viewer. To understand the underlining meaning behind the lighting choices within the film, it 'll be shown by the protagonist, antagonist and the overall atmosphere within the movie.

Batman: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan is non-stop action thriller that continually did the unexpected. The film is based off of the original Batman comic book but additionally changes the perception of the everyday world as good to naturally bad. Throughout the movie, Batman stands for honesty and goodness while the Joker is a symbolism of chaos and evil. Both sides are forced to make quick-witted decisions in order to stop the opposing vigilante from doing his desired work. The citizens of Gotham are put in the heart of this circumstance and feel obligated to go against their values to stop the chaos. Numerous people habitually pursue their dreams and values but often become blinded from their

In opening scenes of The Dark Knight Rises (2012), director Christopher Nolan uses mise-en-scene film elements to amplify the state of Bruce Wayne’s physical and emotional health. He accomplishes this through the use of framing, lighting, décor, costume, and acting. During the party at Wayne’s mansion, Nolan highlights Wayne’s isolation by using an extreme long shot from the perspective of a party-goer, to a balcony where his silhouette is shown. The distance between Wayne and the party represents his separation from social activities. Later, when Selina Kyle poses as a waitress to bring Wayne his dinner, Nolan uses dim lighting and décor objects such as covered furniture and piles of belongings on the floor to show that Wayne is living

Bruce Wayne uses all of the strength he possesses in order to keep Batman from being free despite his relentless struggles to break free from the chains that keep him. The usage of dramatic lines the author uses and the constant shadows creates the imagery of captivity and the innermost thoughts and struggles that Bruce Wayne possesses deep inside. Cell bars represent the windows on the panels of this

"The Dark Knight" is grimly magisterial. It's a summer blockbuster that contemplates near-total civic disaster: Crowds surge, tractor-trailers flip, and buildings explode, but the pop violence feels heavy, mournful. Light barely escapes the film's gravitational pull.

These three techniques create a sense of corruption and the mood of good vs evil which is conveyed by Nolan of how he used dark under lighting in each fighting scene where Batman is fighting or talking to the Joker which produces that effect of anxiety and intensity. The setting of the scene where Bruce Wayne, Rachel Dawes, Harvey Dent the Russian ballerina are at a fancy restaurant, the setting is crowded, but yet spacious with high ceilings and large mirrors on the walls giving the effect voluminous and extension to the actual size of the room. The lighting is particularly well lightening, but yet gives a warm, soft shadow around the main characters which hints the lighting is coming from the side of the frame. Nolan has used these particular techniques to portray Gotham city as a dark underworld, but yet advanced with high-rise buildings and formal events which are foreshadowed by many scenes in the film, however Nolan conveyed the sense of suspension, tension, and anxiety through the use of setting, set design and lighting to portray different moods and emotion from the