Tim Burton Techniques

Tim Burton is one of the most unusual and unique directors of our time. He brings characters to life by putting them in a habitat they don’t belong. His movies “Alice in Wonderland”, “The Corpse Bride”, “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, and “Edward Scissorhands” all demonstrate how one of a kind his movies are. Using cinematic techniques, Tim Burton points out the misfit character and shows how different they are then everyone else. His use of camera angles, lighting, and sound give the viewers a different perspective on the movies, and help pick out the individual character.

The best technique he used throughout the films was zoom. Burton used zoom to show characters emotions and to focus on something specific throughout the film. In Edward Scissorhands Burton zooms in on Edward as he is cutting the bushes in the town it showed that Edward is talented and used it to his advantage by helping out the community and that Edward is very artistic with his scissors.In Charlie and the chocolate factory He used zoom when Willy wonka opens the door to the edible room and increses excitment and anticipation.While this occurs they switch the camera over to the boom/crane and shows the whole room alowing the audience to see the whole room including the chocolate waterfall and the river. In Edward Scissorhands, High angles are used to make Characters seem lonely and small. When Edward gets trapped in jims house showing how small and helpless

One very important editing technique Burton uses in his films is flashbacks. Burton uses flashbacks in order to build structure for the mood and feelings of the audience. An example of a flashback is in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Burton uses flashbacks in the beginning of the film in order to educate the viewer about the connection and relations that the Bucket family has had with Wonka and his factory. The flashbacks showed Grandpa Joe working for Wonka before the terrible tragedy that is the closing of the factory. The flashbacks educates you about how Wonka treated his workers, the amazing things he did, and how the factory shut down. After viewing, you start to feel sad for Wanaka because Grandpa Joe described him as a great and marvelous man with incredible ideas and inventions, but jealousy got to the competitors forcing them to steal ideas and inventions Wonka created, forcing him to shut down the factory. Burton also uses flashbacks to build structure for the mood and feelings of the audience in the film Big Fish. He uses flashbacks to give you a glimpse of the relationship Will has with his father. The flash backs told and showed the stories of Edward Bloom and his adventures. They explained all the stories that will was told and gave you a clue on what the relationship between them was like. A lot of what Edward said was true and because of that, the flashbacks make the audience reconsider

Burton manipulates shots/framing, editing, and music/sound to enhance the perspective of the audience and give them a meaningful and relevant story.

When a person watches a movie, and a scene with dim lighting shows up on the screen, that usually makes them feel tense and scared about what is going to happen next. Directors use cinematic techniques to convey feelings or connect with the viewer. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses flashbacks, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, and high key and low key lighting to show a characters’ thoughts or past, create the mood of a scene, create suspense, and let the viewers know about the characters’ as if they personally knew each other.

A cinematic technique used in the Tim Burton movies is eye level frame. Charlie and the chocolate factory, Edward scissorhands and The nightmare Before christmas all use this cinematic technique. “Charlie and the chocolate factory” uses this technique when charlie is sitting down with his family at night eating dinner, the camera frame is always at eye level when the family is taking to each other, making them all equal to one another. Tim burton uses this technique in “Edward scissorhands”, again they are all sitting together at dinner and the frame being used is eye level creating the feeling that no one is greater than the rest. Also using the cinematic technique is “The

Tim Burton has directed movies like Charlie and the chocolate factory, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and many more. He is known for his unique style which is dark humor. He uses many techniques to create different moods or feelings you wouldn't usually feel .Tim Burton uses flashback, shot'reverse'shot, and camera movements to create different types of mood.

In Edward Scissorhands, Burton uses close up shots to show a particular emotion on a character’s face. An example of this would be when Peg first enters Edward’s home on the hill. Peg’s emotion shows the viewers that she is frightened when Edward comes out of the shadows while wearing all black. Since Burton is showing Peg’s emotion, he wants the audience to feel the same frightening emotion that Peg is feeling. Another good example of this tool that Burton uses is the scene when he uses a close up on Charlie’s face when he finds a golden ticket.

Starting off, Tim Burton uses flashbacks to not only enhance the viewers' experience, but to show that scenes and moods can change in one frame. One example, in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, is when the oompa loompas come out and to the viewer, it's a surprise. Almost immediately after, however, it turns to suspense when Willy Wonka, in the flashback, is suddenly in a forest being attacked by snozzwangers and such. Similarly , in Edward Scissorhands, the scene changes from a elated stereotypical barbecue to a low key lighting factory with the scientist teaching him poetry and edicate which is in a dark environment where the

A director will call for the use of a close-up shot if he wants the audience to focus on the

Tim burton mostly uses close up when he wants to capture a character’s facial expressions. For example, in Edward Scissorhands when he first met Pag and she was feeling on his face then she starts to put product on his face so his scars will start to go away. I used this scene for an example because she’s used a lot of facial expressions to show him that she can help him and she felt bad because he was all in a huge castle

Unearthly, inspiring, mystifying, childlike, unbelievable, these adjectives describes director Tim Burton’s use cinematic style. Tim Burton is an innovative and imaginative director which as directed movies such as Edward Scissor Hands, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton has been mesmerizing viewers of his films with his unique stylistic techniques. Many can agree Tim Burton has an extraordinary and bizarre gift in the directing business, which makes the viewers emotions twist and creates a feeling that wouldn’t normally be created by the film. In many Tim Burton’s films, Tim Burton uses lighting, music and sound, and shots to create a mix emotions for the viewer to have.

One way Burton uses editing is in Big Fish. In the scene when Ed Bloom talks about a flashback that consists of the witch who has an eye who can show people how they die. Not only did this scene create suspense when the audience is eager to find out how the characters die, but this allows the audience to connect with Ed Bloom and find out how courageous he is and how he shows leadership throughout more of the story. Burton also uses this technique in Edward Scissorhands. When the scene flashes back to Edward’s past with the inventor when he gets Edward hands for one of his birthdays. The inventor then falls ill and Edward brushes his scissors along his face. Furthermore, the audience is shocked to see the inventor die, and also understands that Edward doesn’t want to lose the ones he cares

Tim Burton incorporates methods of editing to enhance the audience’s understanding of the underlaid plot, and

The first example of this is in “Edward Scissorhands” [1990] when Peg discovers Edward in the castle inside of a dark corner of a dark room inside. As Peg welcomes Edward to come out of the shadows, the camera gives a close up to Edward showing his fearful and confused face, and cuts to Peg’s similar reaction, this scene helps to develop complex characters by showing their personality, and overall helps our understanding of how the characters feel in this situation and how they might act later. Another example of this technique is in “Charlie in the Chocolate Factory” [2005] in the same scene, when they are in the room before the chocolate room and they are about to open the doors. As Willy Wonka begins to tease the children the camera close-ups, and shows their excited and confused faces as they wait for what is behind the doors. Willy Wonka however shows a pale and abhor face, developing Tim Burton’s complex characters by giving them early personality traits, and also adding an understanding to what Willy Wonka has in store, why he does it? The finale example is in “Big Fish” [2003], this movie is full of close-ups showing Edward’s emotions, but specifically a scene is when he is slowly making his way to the witch’s house door. As the camera close-ups into Edwards face