Sitting in a comfortable seat watching a film creates emotions in the viewer from happiness to sympathy to fear. Tim Burton directed films that create all these different emotions within only two hours. Some of Burton’s films are Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and each have the same theme of horror with comedy and a moral lesson. Tim Burton's style encompasses cinematic techniques such as flashbacks, shot-reverse-shots, and front lighting to make the viewers feel connected and involved with the characters in his films. Burton uses the cinematic technique flashback in his films Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in which Burton uses to help the audience reach an understanding …show more content…
Front lighting is soft lighting on an actor's face which gives an appearance of goodness, innocence, or a halo effect. The first example of front lighting is in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where throughout the movie Charlie and his family are displayed in soft lighting. This front lighting shows that Charlie are like angels similar to the way that they are kind and selfless. The halo effect that Charlie and his family are displayed makes the audience grow to like the Bucket family because the angelic effect makes them more likeable. Another example is from Edward Scissorhands when Edward is first introduced and his face is in front lighting. This front lighting shows Edward’s child-like innocence and his kind selfless ways, which the audience makes connect to Edward where they become attached because they want to protect him. The last example of front lighting is in Big Fish, when young adult Ed Bloom meets his future wife Sandra Bloom. This front lighting shows how Ed views Sandra as an angel and since angels are often described as beautiful he also thinks she has the beauty of an angel. The angelic lighting makes the audience want to trust Sandra because angels are trustworthy and could never do a person
Indisputably, Tim Burton has one of the world’s most distinct styles when regarding film directing. His tone, mood, diction, imagery, organization, syntax, and point of view within his films sets him apart from other renowned directors. Burton’s style can be easily depicted in two of his most highly esteemed and critically acclaimed films, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Burton ingeniously incorporates effective cinematic techniques to convey a poignant underlying message to the audience. Such cinematic techniques are in the lighting and editing technique categories. High key and low key relationships plus editing variations evinces the director’s elaborate style. He utilizes these cinematic techniques to establish tone mood, and imagery in the films.
Tim Burton is a creative director when he directs gothic movies. This essay talks about the cinematic techniques that Burton uses in the movies, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton uses shots and framing, sound, and lighting, to make a dark and gothic movies. He tries to make you feel a special way, in a certain scene, in his movies, by his different techniques.
Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses high key and low key lighting. For example, Peg’s town is flooded with high key lighting in order to make the outside seem joyful and peaceful. The outside may look cheery and bring, but most of the people living there were not the most pleasant people. The women gossip and create rumors; the men are rude and conceited. He used low key lighting in order to make the audience feel anxious about the upcoming events. An example would be when Peg walked up to the top floor of the mansion and noticed that someone was sitting in the corner. Edward’s shadow may have given him a frightening appearance, as he is a ‘man’ with scissors for hands. But Edward was a kind and caring gentleman. In conclusion, he used reverse lighting to add an irreplaceable, distinctive quality to his movies.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands are all flooded with the magical elements of camera angles, lighting, and non-diegetic sound to create various moods, allowing the audience to enter life in the eyes of Tim Burton. The films would not be able to achieve the desired effect on the audience without Burton’s delivery of these powerful techniques. Burton’s mastery in the art of storytelling through film definitely rewards him the the title, “Burton the Wonder Wizard of
For example, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Burton implements dim lighting during meaningful moments and bright lighting during more vibrant moments. This effectively conveys the tone set for the scene and maintains a clear balance in the scene. This helps the audience clearly understand the scene’s characteristics and its meaning to the film. Similarly, in Edward Scissorhands (1990) Burton utilizes lighting to set contrast between the characters. The superficial town is set in a bright, sunny setting, however, the lives the characters lead are quite the opposite of bright. These individuals spend their free time judging others and have no individuality whatsoever. Furthermore, Edward, one of the only characters who is kindhearted, is portrayed in dull, dark lighting. The lighting contrasts with his sweet personality to emphasize who is accepted and who is not. This contrast helps the audience understand the contradicting worlds of Edward and the frivolous town. In addition, in Big Eyes (2014) Burton implements lighting to show the slow transition of Margaret Keane’s life. The lighting depicts the dulling of her life as she faces troubles in her life. The use of lighting here helps the audience see the clear transition in Margaret Keane's life and clearly understand the conflict in her life. Similarly, Burton utilizes lighting in his films
wealthy Hollywood director. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland are examples of Burton movies that the characters have to go through challenging obstacles to find their triumph. Burton uses low angles and high key lighting in Charlie and the Chocolate factory and in Alice in Wonderland to emphasize that positive attitude affects a person’s fortune.
To begin, Tim Burton’s use of variant lighting creates a contrasting mood of peacefulness within darkness. Burton uses low key lighting, and side lighting throughout Charlie and the
The sharp gleam of light slicing through the air as it reflects from an array of smooth blades. A whiplash of a tail and the shimmer of iridescent scales before it slither into the murky waters. A bony hand threading delicate buttons onto a little doll’s eyes. Hundreds of dark, macabre, bittersweet chocolate wrapped with shiny and thin foil paper. These are the distinctive representative objects showing Tim Burton’s dark style. He is a Hollywood outsider-director who grew up under the influences of darkness. Tim Burton, the director of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands, and various other movies, uses exaggeration in cinematic techniques and repetitive themes to show his unique and avant-garde style.
However, everything is unusual in Edward’s world. Tim Burton introduces another realism from Edward’s perspective. The impression of where Edward comes from is completely different from what is observed in the neighborh...
Tim Burton, a well respected director, made successful movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and Alice in Wonderland because of the specific techniques he uses in the films. One of the keys to Burton’s success includes his mastery use of particular techniques such as lighting or sound at the right moment. This helps create Burton’s intended tone and mood for the audience. Throughout the course of his movies,Tim Burton uses a variety of different lighting, sound, and editing techniques to convey the common theme that taking risks can result in a beneficial change.
Tim Burton uses the cinematic technique of lighting in order to flawlessly portray dark, mysterious and creepy scenes. In his movie, Edward Scissorhands, Burton effectively uses low key lighting in the scene where Peg enters Edward’s mansion and uses it in the opening credits to create tense and suspenseful scenes. Burton also uses high key lighting to his advantage when the neighbors and Peg threw a party for Edward. The scene was flooded with light to create a scene of happiness, amusement and surprises during the party. His use of lighting though, is taken to new levels in his other movie Frankenweenie. Although the whole movie is flooded with darkness, you can see when the scenes get darker or lighter. Burton uses low key lighting in the scene where Victor Frankenstein’s beloved dog Sparky is trapped inside the burning windmill while attempting to rescue another dog. The scene is flooded with darkness in order to create a frightening scene full of suspense. Burton also uses high key lighting during the scene where Sparky is revived by the New Holland’s citizens after the devastating fire that “killed” Sparky to create a scene ...
On August 25, 1958, Timothy Walter Burton was born (“Biography”). Burton had a painful childhood in which the relationship with his parents and brother was nonexistent (Morgenstern). Through his intense feeling of isolation, his visual talent began to develop. The comfort found in hobbies such as writing and drawing led him to attend the California Institute of the Arts which led him to his first job in any artistic field at the Disney Animation Studios (“Biography”). Burton has since been referred to as one of the most visually gifted writers, artists, and filmmakers that America has seen (Hanke). His short stories, poems, and film scripts are centered on an inner darkness which he has been slowly acquiring since his childhood. He throws himself into everything he writes and makes even the simplest characters have a deep, complex meaning. His famous darkness and symbolism is shown in his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories. The book contains a collection of his short stories, poems, and illustrations about a variety of fictional characters that can be compared to Burton and his life. Tim Burton’s home life and previous hardships have made a significant impact on his work. In my paper, I will draw parallels to his life and work as well as prove that there is reasoning and beauty in the way he is.
” … an auteur is able to maintain a consistency of style and theme by working against the constraints of the Hollywood mode of production.” – Warren Buckland (2008)
Lighting is one of the most essential techniques to indicate the mood of a movie. In Edward Scissor Hands, Burton blends up the lighting with high and low key lighting to add more emotions to his characters and brighten their personalities. Burton uses the high key lighting technique in the town that Peg lives in. Revealing it as bright and cheerful presenting I to be flawless, but that is only an illusion. In reality the town is hateful and does not accept others, the women create packs t...
Burton uses close-up camera angles to show significant items in his film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton uses a close-up camera angle when Charlie finds the golden ticket to show how it is significant to the story. The golden ticket is significant because it is like his ticket to a new and better life. In Edward Scissorhands there is a close-up of the hands his inventor was going to give him which is very significant to the story because if his inventor finished him and