Tim Burton Mood Analysis

Do you know what makes you different? Tim Burton does and has a unique way of showing it. Through his films, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands. Which he has managed to enhance by using these two specific cinematic techniques. Lighting and sound are the two factors that contribute you into feeling a desired way. These techniques manipulate you to either feel sad, happy, or even excited during the film.

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.

Tim burton as a director shows mood and tone through cinematic techniques. In the movies Edward Scissor hands and Charlie and the Chocolate factory he used these techniques to create his original mood and tone. These cinematic techniques are camera movement, lighting, and sound to create his cinematic technique.

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

For example, in the nut sorting room, when Veruca’s shoes are clicking on the floor, which is a diegetic sound. This creates the effect that everything has suddenly gone very quiet and anticipation is growing. But, in Big Fish, Tim Burton uses sound to make people feel many different things. For example, in the town of Spectre, when the townspeople were dancing, the diegetic sounds were all of the happy dancing music. This creates the effect of happiness.

Tim burton, in "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" uses many different cinematic techniques. When Willy Wonka opens up the door to the first room the camera zooms in. This increases excitement and anticipation. As it zooms in on the door, it opens and it switches to a crane technique of the immense room. By using a boom shot the whole room is in view. This shows the immense beauty of Willy Wonka’s edible room. The audience can see the waterfall made of chocolate and all the other fictional parts of the breathtaking room. Earlier in the film Burton uses dolly-tracking to announce the Golden Tickets, posters are put up around the city. Dolly-tracking is utilized to show bike riding oompa loompas placing the posters on posts. Oompa-Lumpas ride away from the factory on tiny bikes as the camera follows along around the town. The camera tracks one rider as he veers off from the others, puts a poster up on a lamp post, and rides off. Tim Burton uses camera movement techniques to his advantage to depict a unique gothic style.

For instance in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" there is a fine example of music/ sound affecting the mood when comparing the two towns (Christmas and Halloween). Both of the towns music represents the characters and the ideals that each town is set on. In Halloween town the music is dark, mysterious and contains snake charmer melodies showing that it is based on being scary and mysterious just like Halloween. The opposite of this is in Christmas town where the neighborhoods are filled with cheerful, upbeat, repetitive music which convey the happiness of Christmas and the townspeople in general. Music/Sound also has a major influence in "Edward Scissorhands". For instance in the segment of the movie where Edward has a flashback and the invention room is being showed you can hear the rhythmic thump to the machinery making cookies, this sound conveys to the audience a mysteriousness of the factory and the robots and questions what this has to do with Edward. In addition to this there is also a scene when Kim goes outside to see what Edward is doing and encounters him making snow from ice sculpture. She has never seen snow so when this interaction happens there is a melodic, angel music being placed with this scene. However when she ventures to close to Edward he accidentally slice her face

One of the ways why cinematography made the film was the lighting. To get the feel, the lighting appeared to be fake shadows that were painted on the set. The fake shadows that were painted on the set gave the lighting appeared to be harsh and sharper to set the mood for the audience. If it weren’t for the painted shadows, the movie wouldn’t have been so successful in the horror genre. Since it was a silent movie, if it weren’t for the shadows, you wouldn’t of seen it as a horror film, but as an original film that was trying to be creative.

Tim Burton, in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, uses lighting to help produce his grim style. Burton includes back lighting in the clip of the chocolate palace to create a silhouette. This application of lighting separates the building from the sunset. Therefore, it generates contrast causing the palace to look unearthly and dark. Without this

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.

For example, in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton uses non-diegetic music to point out emotions of the children when they are loose in the eatable room. By using music, Burton shows the children’s thoughts and emotion. Burton lets the viewer absorb a deeper understanding of each character. This also lets the viewer experience the candy room through each of the children perspective which creates a connection between the character and the viewers. Tim Burton also uses music and sound in the film Edward Scissorhands. When Peg makes her way into the garden of the mansion, Peg sees green and well design bushes of objects in the garden. This scene is companied by sounds of bells and strong presence of strings incorporated. These elements gives the viewer a childlike and romantic feeling. The music and sound playing the background can make the viewer feel warm in the inside and see Peg isn’t in danger. It can also make the reader why the garden is so nice and bright and the mansion looks dark and

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,

In contrast, the opposite of front/back lighting is used in the infamous 2006 film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As Willy Wonka’s chocolate was getting attraction, people desired his secret formula. Spies who disguised as workers were sent into the factory to attain it for their own benefit. As the formula was being handed over in the midst of the dark alley, the left side of the receiver’s face was exposed. This strategy of side lighting as well as low key lighting is used to convey the person as evil and mischievous, and shows how the secluded and clandestine place is manipulated for this lighting to be specifically used.

Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands , uses sound to show the contrast between the dark and angelic sides of Edward. For example, when Peg is walking up the staircase of Edward's castle the viewer hears the sound of her heels clicking. This shows how lonely and isolated Edward

Most people think that cinematography is simple work, but like every art form, it’s very hard to find and create an original style that makes you stick out from the crowd and shows how much time and work you put in your craft. Tim Burton is a perfect example of someone who put an immense amount of hard work and time into his style until it was perfect, and as anyone could tell, it clearly stuck among his loyal fans. Tim Burton’s sadistically sweet and cartoonishly surreal sense of style he put in his works have made him popular among multiple demographics. Tim Burton, in his multiple works, is very commonly known for putting particular attention to lighting, sound, and framework as can be seen commonly in his work, to create an emotional effect on the viewer. Is I shall explain in the following paragraphs, Tim Burton, in his films, uses many cinematic techniques