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    With a net worth of one hundred and forty million dollars, Tim Burton is greatly known to be a creative mastermind. He has made many amazing movies aimed toward children but also aimed at adults. He creates tales that have nightmarish feelings and makes you worry about the things that go bump in the night. His style is unique to him and he uses many cinematic techniques to his advantage. Some of the many techniques that create Burton's uniquely creepy, yet childish style in many of his amazing works

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    As a director,Tim Burton is best known for his creative, dramatic characters and unique films. In his movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a boy named Charlie and four other children win the chance of a lifetime to meet Willy Wonka, the owner of the Wonka Bar Factory. When the four children enter the factory, their lives change into an enormous blueberry or becoming 10ft. tall from a tv. In Burton’s film, Edward Scissorhands, an Avon sales rep, named Peggy, is going door by door selling products

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    Annie Hong Professor Arnold Film 100-A01 14 August 2017 Tim Burton Tim Burton once said that “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” Those of who are not familiar with his artworks, films and books may consider a majority of his work to be “crazy” or “too dark.” However, there is one thing most people can give him credit for and that is the uniqueness of all his films from the two most popular, Edward Scissorhands (1990) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) to his more recent

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    Tim Burton uses nondigetic sound, lighting, and color choice to create suspense/mystery and a dreamlike feel in his films, as well as contrast. These cinematic techniques contribute to his darker style. Tim Burton uses nondigetic sound to create a dream-like feel in his films. In the opening credits of the film, Corpse Bride, the nondigetic sounds starts out almost angelic with a music box feel, as well as the opening credits of the film, Edward Scissorhands, as the screen shows different objects

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    as a director Tim Burton has more abilities as opposed to a writer to depict mood/tone.In some of his older movies, He utilized a multitude of cinematic techniques to show off sinister tones and mood in movies such as “Batman”. The moods and tones of his movies are practically always eerie and dark. Tim Burton uses lighting, camera movements and sound to depict a distinct, gothic film experience. Lighting is important to tell the mood of a film. Burton depicts sinister and scary images with low-key

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    The Blind Side is based on a true story about a homeless boy named Michael Oher (Big Mike) who has been living with different people until the Tuohys take him in. Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy eventually become his legal guardians and the story is about how his life improves while playing football at Wingate high school in Tennesee. It shows his struggles with grades, and how the family and Michael are affected by the other. Because of his giant size he goes on to get a football scholarship for the University

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    immigriant city in the world, plenty of coffee shops are opened in downtown, not only the national and private coffee shops such as Tim Horton’s and Sorry Coffee Company but also the international coffee shops such as Second Cup. Frist, as the most popular coffee shop in Toronto, people who want to buy drinks in Tim Horton’s have a long line. Since I went to one of the Tim Horton’s which located nearby the St. George Station, people always enter in the shop in a group. However, different types of people

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    Tim Hortons is a fast food chain known for its coffee and donuts. The multinational company originates from Ontario, Canada by famous hockey player Tim Horton in 1964. They specialise in coffee beverages and baked goods. Initially, Tim Hortons was in partnership with Tim and Ron Joyce. Later in February 1974, after the death of Tim Joyce, Ron Joyce became the sole owner. They began selling only two types of coffee and donuts. Tim Hortons started from a small restaurant and today they are successful

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    Tim Burton Techniques

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    Tim Burton is a popular director, his films are known to be dark and strange, they usually are a fairytale like story with a dark twist. He has done a lot of very popular films, for example, he has directed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and The Corpse Bride. He was inspired by the Grimm Brothers, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, and Vincent Price.Tim Burton uses close up, low key lighting, zoom, and long shot to show the characters emotions, create a scary scene, show what is

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    shot, close up, extra close up, and point of view, and form circumstance of the characters in their settings amid that moment in the plot. In Edward Scissorhands, director Tim Burton relies upon a bevy of different camera angles to capture Edward as an assailable protagonist, alone and existing as separate from community. Tim Burton uses creative and sometimes cramped camera angles to convey the primary concepts of aloneness and self-discovery, in addition to augmenting the veiled themes of societal

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