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    all-time favorites such as Edward Scissorhands, to stop-motion classics like Vincent, director Tim Burton skillfully commands the cinematic techniques of shots, sound, and lighting to portray unsettling moods of innocence, defining his childlike, distorted style. Notably throughout his many prominent films, Tim Burton studiously crafts an innocent yet unsettling mood through his utility of the cinematic technique of shots. For instance, in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, Edward and Kim Boggs, along

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    Tim Burton Techniques

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    From films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to The Corpse Bride, director Tim Burton has charmed millions with his unique style and techniques. Tim Burton uses low-key lighting and non-diegetic sound in order to fluctuate the emotions, perspectives of the character, situations, and mood in order to show his audience that everyone is different in their own special way. To begin, Tim Burton uses low key lighting to manipulate different emotions within the audience and create suspense. In Burton’s

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    Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques Tim Burton uses low key lighting to set a creepy setting for the story. For example in Edward Scissorhands, they give the mansion edward is from a dark feel with low key lighting to make Edward seem more scary. It also focuses on Edward’s hands which makes him seem dangerous. Or The Nightmare Before Christmas. In the introduction the camera soars over halloween land and shows that everything is dark along with the creepy looking characters. The low key lighting Tim

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    book by its cover”; in Twilight’s case, however, the accurate phrase is “don’t judge a book by its movie”. Twilight, written by Stephenie Meyer, is an exciting and romantic story about the unorthodox love between a human, Bella Swan, and a vampire, Edward Cullen. Unfortunately, many people know Twilight only by its 2008 film interpretation, and because of the quality of its movie, they figure the novel is low quality as well. Those who have read the novel know this is not true; Twilight is full of

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    Tim Burton uses an amazing and unique styles to captivate his audience. He uses very clever tactics to keep the interest of his audience of all ages. His tactics include the use of color in different moods, the use of odd shapes that provide a more interesting atmosphere, he sets up scenes that are relevant to all ages, and he brings music and dancing into most of his movies to create a sense of happiness or sadness. One of his tactics is that he uses color to set the mood that makes audiences feel

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    Edward Scissorhands

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    Edward Scissorhands One night a grandmother tells her granddaughter a bed time story. The story is about where snow comes from. The grandmother begins to tell her about a boy named Edward Scissorhands, and how his inventor dies before he finishes him. From that moment on Edward was left alone in a huge scary castle. When being left alone with no one to learn from, Edward becomes different besides the fact he has scissors as hands. One day a lady named Peg was stopping at every home to sell beauty

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    interested in drawing and filmmaking at a very young age, not to mention he attended the California Institute of the Arts and later worked as an animator at Disney Productions. His writing and directing credits range from big-budget features such as Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1988), and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). The majority of his films are based on his expectations of the world with an imaginative spin. Though his name has become synonymous with the macabre and the odd

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    The Mysterious Tim Tim Burton is a well known dictator. He has directed countless movies starting from Frankenweenie, also Edward Scissorhands, then all the way to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and more. But throughout all of his movies he directed his style remains. He uses curtain cinematic techniques including, non-diegetic sound, flashback, and close-up. To create his interesting, mysterious, suspenseful, and exciting films. Non-diegetic sound is a way directors implant a sound

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    Two of his main productions are Edward Scissorhands and his remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He uses many cinematic techniques in these films to set the mood and tone of the film, but sound and camera angles really stress the interest in his films. The most effective element in these films is sound. Whether it is happy or sad, celebratory or suspenseful, Tim Burton has used it in a very compelling way. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton made it necessary

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    Jonathan Edwards Essay

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    Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is widely recognized as one of America’s most profound Theologians. Some might even consider him the master of Puritan revival, since he was the leader of the Great Awakening. During his time he was a devout Calvinist who had the power of single-handedly keeping the Puritan faith strong for over twenty-five years, by using vivid imagery to provoke his audience. Edward's dialect was exquisitely influential and yet wielded with class and ease. This essay argues that

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