Tim Burton is an American film director known for his gothic style of horror mixed with humor. He is known for directing movies like Beetlejuice, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, and more. Tim Burton includes a sense of cartoonish humor in almost all of his movies with a sense of horror making them more interactive with the audience. Tim Burton’s style can be classified as gently scary as it combines horror with comedy. We can suggest this through cinematic techniques known as Non-Diegetic Sound, Close-up, and Lowkey-Lighting, which he uses in his films Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice.
In the Tim Burton-directed film known as Edward Scissorhands, we see the use of
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We see this technique demonstrated when Willy Wonka and his guests are riding on a ship to the chocolate river. As they continue going down the river, we start hearing some suspenseful and thrilling music playing in the background as the ship starts going extremely fast and shaking from side to side. In general, this technique is used when the director is trying to get the audience to be aware of something happening in the future and, set the mood and tone for the current situation. Tim Burton also uses Non-Diegetic Sound at the very beginning of the movie. We see this as the camera goes in and out of the factory showing different stages of the chocolate being made and shipped. While we see all the steps to making chocolate we hear eerie music in the background as it seems the factory is empty and highly industrialized. Making the audience get a feel of how the factory almost seems like a graveyard as there is no human presence besides the delivery men shipping the chocolate out. This helps us understand Tim Burton's style of being gently scary as not even 5 minutes after the eerie music we see Charlie making jokes with his