Tim Burton Research Paper

Tim Burton uses different elements to make the movies scary but something kids like to watch. His movies are very intriguing and strike some people as a good fantasy movie. Tim Burton uses close ups, low key lighting music,and tracking in order to make a scary yeet universal movie to watch. Tim Burton uses close up shots to let us know how the charters are feeling. When he zoomed into Willy Wonka's face during a flashback was happening.

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 uses lighting and color as one of his biggest assets. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the look over the town has a dark and dull color appeal. This lack of color makes the small town feel poor and sad. In the movie Edward

Three cinematic categories Burton manipulates in his films are camera movements, camera angles, and music/sound. Tim Burton works with camera movements to expand the scenes. One way Burton does this is in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he uses pan in the scene where everyone is outside in the sun playing. This technique creates a happy mood and makes everything seem bright and cheerful. Everyone seems happy and everything in that moment seems almost perfect.

One element that is contributed to Burton's establishments, and cinematic style are flashbacks. Flashbacks show what occured in the past. For example, in the film Edward scissorhands, there's a scene where Edward Scissorhands has a flashback of his father replacing his hands with prosthetics. Flashbacks make the audience feel sympathy, because he is close to getting hands but his creator died. This flash back is essential for defining Burton's style, because flashbacks are necessary to the plot, or gives characters depth and meaning. Similarly, in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", the director uses flashbacks in the scene where Willy Wonka had a flashback of his childhood. In this scene, the audience learns how Wonka's father was exteremely strict on eating candy. This goes to show how Wonka became a candy maker. Furthermor, in "Corpse bride" Emily, the corpse bride, has a flashback of when she was alive, and when she was in love with a lord. It finally

Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He directed many widely remembered movies such as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Batman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and many more. Burton is well known for his dark, gothic, and eccentric style in his horror and fantasy films. With that being true, he uses many cinematic techniques in a way which makes every single one of his movies unique and one of a kind. The main techniques that catch my eye in Burton’s movies are non-diegetic music, low key lighting, and long shot.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about Charlie and five golden tickets that will allow him to go glimpse inside the world of confectionaries. In the beginning Tim Burton uses camera movement on the town to

At the start of nearly every Tim Burton movie he has opening where credits are shown while a camera is travelling around giving a rollercoaster feel showing key places or aspects to do with the movie. The camera travelling around the objects is effective because it helps show us key objects or places in the movie to give us a feel on what the movie is about or based around in a more entertaining way other than dialog. We see this in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ where we see a very grey and dark opening showing chocolate being poured into blocks by fantasy looking machines not ones you would see at a normal factory. The chocolate is then being moved over to where it is fanned and then stamped into little rectangular pieces by another fantasy looking machine. The chocolate blocks are then being lifted by an odd machine that somewhat looks cartoonish because of the CGI used giving it that fantasy look which Tim Burton usually goes for.

To start off, director, Tim Burton employs lighting to create an emotion of suspicion and

Burton uses low key lighting to input a spooky, dark mood to his films.  For example in Alice In Wonderland, Burton uses low key lighting when Alice is trapped in the room full of doors. The low key lighting creates a dark, trapped mood in the scene.  Burton uses low key lighting very well in this film to maintain his interesting style.  Another example of Burton using  low key lighting comes in the film  Edward Scissorhands.  Edward’s friends force him to break into a house, inside the house it is extremely dark and spooky.  This has the effect of making Edward look suspicious and trapped.  Burton’s use of low key lighting makes his unique, and different style very spooky and sinister.

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 Uses cinematic techniques in his movies to create mood and tone. He uses lighting, sound or music, and camera angles to do so. We watched Three Tim Burton movies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish, and we analysed the films. All of these movies are very similar. For example, Opening credits with music, low lighting camera shots and the same camera angles.

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 uses an establishing shot in “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” to set the scene or establish the location. For example, when Willy Wonka shows the chocolate room to the children, the viewer can see the full scope of his creation.

Tim Burton produced “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” as well. Charlie Bucket was the misfit of the group because he was the only normal child in the group chosen to enter the factory. When showing the children and where they were from, the lighting was high key, making the scene more cheerful. But when showing Charlie’s house, the lighting was low key. This made his family’s house seem not as happy or welcoming. You could also tell a difference in the condition of the family’s house by the sound. When showing the town and the house the Bucket’s lived in, there was non-diegetic music playing that was frightening and disturbing. When showing the other children’s homes and towns, the non-diegetic music was more upbeat and jolly. The movie