Tim Burton, known for his movies that, most of the time, can fit into the horrific genre. As a result of his troubled childhood, Tim Burton directed mostly horror movies. He is well known for his films Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton was looked at as weird when he was a little kid. He once said ”Everybody in the whole world has been misperceived. At school, you wanted something to come across this way and it didn’t come across… It’s why you struggle as a child and you draw and you want to create. There is an impulse to be seen. For yourself: what you are.”. He grew up to make his all of his movies with at least a bit of horror added into the movie.
Tim Burton uses lighting to create a certain kind of mood depending on how the characters feel in a lot of his movies. Three good examples would be Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton uses lighting to show how poor and sad Charlie’s life is. In the movie, The lighting turns darker when the camera transitions into Charlie’s house. When the camera focused on the inside of the factory, The lighting turned bright to show the excitement. In the movie Alice in Wonderland, the lighting is always bright
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In Edward scissorhands, every time Edward moves his fingers, a loud scissor sound plays. The sound is edited in there to remind the audience of how sharp and dangerous Edward would be. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a little girl eats the special new bubble gum and turns into a giant blueberry. When the girl is rolled, the people edit in a little ground sharing and the sound of breaking stone. Those sounds are edited to show how large the girl was compared to what she was. As the girl is stretching, it make kind of an inflating sound like someone is inflating a balloon. In Alice in Wonderland there isn’t a lot of
The same cinematic technique is utilized in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the inception of the film, darker and paler shades of colors are emphasized in the scenery. Especially inside Charlie’s home. However, once inside the chocolate factory, conspicuous colors are introduced. Even though the factory seemed like an exuberant center, there was still a profound void inside the hearts of Wonka, the obnoxious children, and non-proficient parents, not including Charlie and his grandfather. They were lacking the warmth of family unity and self content amid impecuniosity, that Charlie and his grandfather possessed. One can discern that Burton’s style is highly influenced by his lighting effects which in turn affects the tone, mood, and imagery of the film. The sharp contrast of coloration, establishes symbolism, tone, mood, and imagery. Another apparent effect of lighting is the mood it synthesizes. During the scenes in which the figures are pale or low key, the viewer feels uncomfortable. The reverse occurs during the high key scenes. Without the implementation of high key and low key, Burton’s message would have never been fully apprehended in both of the films.
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton uses lighting to create various moods and tones. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory there was back lighting on the chocolate mansion, that Willy Wonka had built, that shows excitement. This affect is achieved because it shows the massive palace. Without this it would not have shown such a great
Tim Burton is known as a director for creating films that have creepy elements to them. For example, in most of Burton’s films, such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Corpse Bride, the main character is a young man with a child like voice and a fair complexion. Tim Burton uses cinematic elements to create the mood sadness by making the viewer feel empathy for the characters. Burton’s use of short types is indicative to his film style because these shots types fit his style by making the audience feel sorry for the characters. In Burton's film Edward Scissorhands, a retelling of Pinocchio but a robot with scissors for hands, Peg, A door to door saleswoman, and her neighbor Helen are having a conversation in the form of a
Tim Burton is a modern day film director that has made multiple famous films. Burton’s movies usually consist of dark and mysterious material that keeps the viewers hooked. Tim Burton uses music, lighting, and framing to make his audience feel the suspense and tension between the characters and their surroundings. In movies like Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton uses music to create the feeling of suspense or relief.
Lighting is important to tell the mood of a film. Burton depicts sinister and scary images with low-key lighting. Tim Burton’s lighting techniques are completely unique. In “Edward Scissorhands“he contrasts lighting. Peg lives in a town that is bright and cheerful looking. Edward’s castle is depressing and gloomy. Tim Burton again shows off his
Tim Burton is a famous film director who has an uncommon design for his films. In many of the movies Tim Burton has directed tends to have suspenseful and gloomy moods. Some filmes Burton has directed are Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish. In these films there are many related cinematic techniques used to create mood, tone, and many others.
Burton also uses sound such as diegetic and non-diegetic music and sound in order to advance the mood, feelings, and emotions of the audience. One particularly exceptional example of Burton’s use of sound is in the film Edward Scissorhands. Burton uses non-diegetic music in order to signify the relationship between Edward and Kim. He uses music that sounds almost like an angel singing in heaven while Edward is carving an ice angel. While Edward is at work, Kim spots the beautiful, white snow created by the beautiful sculpting of the angel and starts spinning and twirling in it, as if she’s never seen snow as dazzling as Edwards before. This symbolizes the relationship between Edward and Kim and the forbidden romance that will take place later on in the film as their feelings for each other grow deeper and deeper. This persuades the audience to root and cheer on Edward and Kim’s forbidden romance even though they know the love they both have for each other is pointless and will never work out because of their differences. Burton also uses diegetic sound in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He uses diegetic sound in order to urge the audience to feel mournful and enhance their mood to feel sorrow toward the former Wonka factory workers. In the film, he uses diegetic sound as the massive gates close to Wonka’s incredible factory. He does this to show the
Throughout Burton’s films, one simple thought is true in all of them. From Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to Alice in Wonderland, Burton emphasizes that “Visions are worth fighting for. Why (should you ) spend your life making someone else's dreams?” Deviating from the predestined path created for the main characters emulates Frida Kahlo’s “Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States ” The majority of Burton’s characters find themselves on a line between the path and visions that society and their family has carved out for them, and the path and visons that are worth fighting for . Burton incorporates contrasting settings and strained family relationships in his films to promote the idea that young people truly find themselves only when they deviate from the path that society has carved for them.
“One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality” was once said by the famous director, author, inspirer, Tim Burton. He creates films that have surprised many of his supporters. Most of the films he has directed have had elements of horror and modernness. Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques such as flashbacks, high key lighting, and dolly/tracking to express his style natural creepiness throughout his movies.
Cinematic Techniques Tim Burton is a film director, producer, writer, artist, and animator. He is well known for his films that portray his dark, mysterious and unique style. Throughout his films Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride he included cinematic techniques to enhance his unique style and create a mysterious effect. One cinematic technique he utilized was lighting. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Burton used darker and paler tones of light inside Charlies home, but inside the factory he used a variety of bright prismatic colors.
Uncanny music is common throughout multiple movies Tim Burton has produced. Music tends to provoke emotion in viewers and Burton’s films capture these emotions efficiently. Typically the introduction to Burton’s films are filled with mysterious music. In “Alice in Wonderland” the introduction has loud music the varies from happy to eerie while containing a dark scene. Then in “ Edward Scissorhands” Peg (mentioned earlier) is driving up to Edward’s mansion, loud and dramatic non-diegetic music.
In three films, (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands) created by a very well known film producer Tim burton has used cinematic techniques that create a new type of imagination to those that have watched his films. Tim burton uses music, lighting, and shots to create such a fascinating movie that is able to change the mood, tone of the entire scene of the movie. In the movie Edward scissorhands, in the scene where peg is in the neighborhood there was nice, soft, and calm music playing. Then she went up onto the road that was dark, and spooky mountain where edward lived the music there started to get really ominous and mysterious, in that one scene it got my feelings to be really upbeat, to really petrified.
Tim Burton is a unique filmmaker. In the biography of Tim Burton: wickedly, funny, grotesquely, humorous Tim Burton’s states his inspiration comes from fairy tales and children’s stories they influenced him in his imagination and cinematic technique.Tim Burton started watching Vincent Price’s movies and then, he took bits of his idol’s style and made it his own by adding a twist to it. He also embraces his dark side some might say, but he still keeps it family friendly, and everyone can enjoy his classic films by using this kind of cinematic style that he was inspired by as a kid he establishes his mood and tone.
Defiant, Is the open resistance; bold disobedience. Tim Burton wears this label like a champ. The 58 year old director was born and raised in california. His famous films are Edward ScissorHands, as well as Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Of course Burton is going to go down as one of the best, but it's only because of his defiant ways of using angles and lighting. He pulls in the audience by not playing by the rules.
Tim Burton clearly portrays a frightening yet welcoming tone that can be seen in many of his films. An