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Tim Burton's Use Of Film Techniques In Sleepy Hollow

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The director, Tim Burton, builds an atmosphere of suspense in the film Sleepy Hollow by using film techniques. He does this in two scenes, they include A seed of Evil & The tree of the dead. He used techniques including sound, lighting, camera angles and mist to create an atmosphere of suspense. During the scene A Seed of Evil Burton employs the technique of sound, lighting, special effects and camera angles. The scene A seed of Evil is a flashback story of the horseman and how he became known as the “Headless Horseman” during the scene, the main technique that is used is low key lighting. There is shadows, dark lighting to help build suspense, there is mist and fog used but the main use if low lighting is the contrast of white snow on the

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