Tim Burton Techniques

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.

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

The eerie nondigetic sound contributes a lot to the dream-like feel of Tim Burton’s films because, especially with the music-box-like nondigetic sound, the nondigetic sounds give a sense of fantasy, surrealness. Tim Burton’s style is very fantasy like, while taking on a tone that is darker

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.

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

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

To demonstrate, Burton uses non-diegetic sound in the form of upbeat and jumpy music in the opening scene of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where the interior of the factory is shown in a loosely animated display of chocolate being made. This music creates the effect of the feeling of mystery and curiosity in the audience as to what the factory truly entails. This effect is created by keeping the audience on edge with the quick and bouncy notes that do not have a linear pattern or flow, whilst trying to decipher the little detail given of the interior of the factory. Without this technique, the factory would have less significance on the story as the factory would seem less mysterious to the audience, which was its overall purpose in the story.

To begin, Tim Burton uses diegetic and non-diegetic sounds throughout many of his films to twist emotions throughout the film using music. One way he does this is in Big Fish when Ed Bloom shows up to his future wife's house with daffodils covering her front lawn. The tempo of the music picks up and the music sounds almost like everyone in the world could see how much he was in

Tim Burton's uses music/ sound in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. The music in Edward scissorhands was peaceful during the ice dance scene. I think this reflects when jim is trying to force a wedge between Edward and Kim. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory they had some upbeat music but they had more beat than the ice dance scene in edward scissorhands. Also the music in charlie and the chocolate factory he chose was diegetic and in edward scissorhands they used a lot of types of music they used some tense music to create suspicion that something might be going on and they also used some music to create

In Edward Scissorhands when Edward is trying to escape from the locked room in Jim’s house, the music is fast paced. This rush in sound makes the reader sit on the edge of their seat, hoping that this frantic moment will end well for Edward. Also in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the music is slow paced when the viewer gets a full view of the factory. The slowness to the sound creates a feeling of wonder and aw. Although the music is what the viewer hears, you wont know how dark the mood is without the lighting.

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

Tim Burton is a film director who has created many movies including Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice. These movies are all dark fantasies that use sounds, cinematic techniques, and camera movements to create mood throughout the text. The moods created help reveal the duality throughout Burton’s movies in order to ask the most important question, what makes something “human”? Throughout all of Tim Burton’s movies, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds create or enhance the feelings of the viewer.

The music gives a heads up that there is a problem of some kind. Burton also uses diegetic sound to create the mood. In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (CCF) the Oompa-Loompas sing every time a spoiled / rotten child is taken away, like when Veruca salt wanted a squirrel and then the squirrel she

In conclusion film techniques that Tim burton used in the movies charlie in the chocolate factory, Edward scissorhand, and Crops dead bride. where there is zooming in and out,low-key-lighting,fade, and natural lighting. With the mood and tone being creepy can

Tim Burton uses non diegetic sound when something interesting or bad is going to happen to one of the characters. For example when Veruca goes cloes up to the squirrel and touches it and the squirrels attack her the music is intense , it gave her dad sense of threatening yet outraged attitude towards Wonka and his daughter also it made the audience curious as to what was going to happen to veruca. Unlike the Sound of the Oompa Loompas being first introduced into the scene which gave an exciting and curious mood , the intense sound when mike's voice turns small gave a confused tone. In the film Corpes Bride Tim Birton Incorpurates a scary