Techniques In The Film Tim's Vermeer

Between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish, Tim Burton has been amazing audiences of all ages for 30 years. Tim Burton uses many techniques to show how he can make an audience feel things that shouldn’t, or wouldn’t, have been there. In a lot of Tim Burton’s films, he uses sound, camera angles, and lighting to give off many different effects.

Mise-En-Scene is a French word which refers to how the film frames materials, objects, and characters and uses them in a beneficial way. The director of BEETLEJUICE, Tim Burton, releases his inner creativity and imagination by using props, camera movements, costumes, and make-up to control his audience. Burton draws his own image of ghosts and portrays them to be freakishly, unusual characters. However, Burton uses his unique skills to make the Maitlands seem surprisingly normal as well. The viewers notice the two worlds clash when Burton adds a scene in the afterlife waiting room. The outrageously spooky and weird clashing with the startlingly normal. Burton successfully uses this scene to reveal the Maitlands character and creates a dramatic

as a director Tim Burton has more abilities as opposed to a writer to depict mood/tone.In some of his older movies, He utilized a multitude of cinematic techniques to show off sinister tones and mood in movies such as “Batman”. The moods and tones of his movies are practically always eerie and dark. Tim Burton uses lighting, camera movements and sound to depict a distinct, gothic film experience.

Tim Burton is known for his amazing and weird films, from “Batman”to “BeetleJuice”, his interesting ideas and odd thinking plays a key role in his award winning movies. Burton uses eye angle and the trolley camera movement to create equality between the characters and the audience.

mission of proving Johannes Vermeer painted using optical tools. For most of the duration of this film, I felt disgusted with Jenison and his attempt to lesson the genius of Vermeer. It wasn’t until I saw the painting in person that I became interested in what he was trying to do. I needed to know that he appreciate the artistry of Vermeer. After that point, I felt less offended by his mission.

Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in his tales to help create his dismal yet whimsical stories. Some of these techniques are eye level angle, low angle, and high angle. The use of these three camera angles can create different moods of feelings within a plot. For example, eye level can create a feeling of being the center of attention because the shot only shows you. Also low angle can show a feeling of power because it can make smaller figure look bigger. Lastly high angle can do the opposite if Low angle by making the audience or a character feel small by comparing them to a huge scene. These terms help create Tim Burton’s grim and fanciful fairy tales.

Tim Jenison, an inventor and founder of NewTeck, a computer software and hardware company best known for 3D modeling software. Tim was very interested in figuring things out and how they are made. Tim was also an art enthusiast and became very fascinated with the paintings of Johannes Vermeer a 17th-century Dutch painter with the such realistic paintings. One morning in the bathtub Tim had a moment where he thought to have figured out how these paintings were made.With the help of Pen and Teller who are longtime friends. Tim started to conducted his own experiments to research and find out how Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer attained this picture perfect, realistic, and highly detailed results in his paintings.

Imagine living in a world where people can have the ability to slay terrifying monsters, have a room where everything is fit for human consumption, and where people can have multiple scissors for hands. These things exist in Tim Burton’s world. The three cinematic techniques Tim Burton uses to establish his unique style is camera movements, camera angles, music/sound. Burton uses those three cinematic techniques to make his films look full of life. In other words, he uses those cinematic techniques to make the emotions in each film notable and he also uses those three cinematic techniques to capture the emotions of the characters in the movies.

Tim Burton. Dubbed the golden standard for film making, because of his exotic use of various cinematic techniques; he can truly bring a piece to life. From Willy Wonka, to Edward Scissorhands, to Big Fish, Burton proves that the use of music, lighting, and camera angles are the ingredients to a cocktail of magic, with just the right amount of, “Whoa.” In this essay, I will bring forth how Burton utilizes these techniques of the cinema world, to create the masterpieces we all know and love.

“I recall being one of those kids where every day was a science fair… It's like well, 'here, let's mix this up and see if it blows up'.” Tim Burton was always quirky as a child, but he was okay with his differences and embraced them through his art. Influenced by the “B” horror films from his childhood, Tim Burton brought the iconic dark mood into his movies, giving a modern twist to the idea of monsters and obscurity. The characters portrayed in his films had the obscure qualities that he saw in himself. In the films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare before Christmas, Tim Burton utilized the cinematic element of symbolism to convey the reoccurring theme of individuality.

Tim Burton’s films are strange and wonderful with his medium shots, eye level angles, and front or back lighting. His films have great depth of meaning and he always seems to get the audience's attention with his techniques. In some of his movies like “Edward Scissorhands” and “Beetlejuice” he used many different techniques to demonstrate sinister moods and tones. The tones of his movies are usually always dark because of his childhood experiences and past. Tim Burton creates something so odd and turns it into a work of art.

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.

Through Tim Burton’s films viewers are taken on a unique journey, to unimaginable places with peculiar characthers. All of Burton’s films are all different from each other, as well as from mainstream movies. However, all of his films follow a similar concept. The unimportance of fitting in is acheieved through Tim Burton’s unique cinematic styles. Tim Burton uses lighting techniques to acheive the unimportance of of fiiting in.

Jan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who fascinated by the use of light in his paintings. “Unlike Caravaggio and Rembrandt, who used light for dramatic emphasis, Vermeer concentrated on the way light reveals each color, texture, and detail of the physical world” (Preble 307). Vermeer

animator is famously known for his dark horror and fantasy films for children. He portrays a sense of darkness in his films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and many more by the use of cinematic techniques. Some of the cinematic techniques he uses in these movies are lighting, sound, and shots and framing. These techniques help accentuate smaller details in the storyline that may be important.