Editing Techniques Used In Tim Burton's Films

Tim Burton is a well renowned director, who has been contributing to the movie-making world since the 1980s. As a director, Tim Burton uses his twisted and creative mind to create these fantastical worlds with unique, larger-than-life characters that in a way reflect reality. Throughout his films, Tim Burton uses music and sound, editing techniques and shots and framing to control the audience’s emotions and make them relate reality to his outlandish movie universes. To start, Tim Burton uses music and sound to intensify the raw, emotional moments in his films. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, diegetic sound of the people talking about the last kid finding the golden ticket was used as Charlie was walking down the street. The

In Big Fish Burton uses flashbacks to show the viewers who Edward Bloom is and how he became the person he is. In one flashback it shows Ed being held down to his bed because he was growing too fast as a young boy and how it taught him that he was meant to be something big and important. By doing this Tim Burton makes the audience feel sorrow for Ed because in the present when he’s telling the story he is again held down to his bed as he awaits death. The audience also feel happiness towards him because this flashback symbolizes that Edward is a big fish. In Edward Scissorhands Burton uses the eye-line match when the inventor first presents the hands to Ed as an early Christmas gift but does not get them, showing that Edward longs to have them. This makes the audience feel upset for Ed because they know that something must’ve gone wrong if he did not have those hands. The use of the flashback technique is also present in Edward Scissorhands when Edward’s inventor gives him the hands to replace his scissors but then the inventor dies in that moment. Again, Tim Burton does this to make the audience feel sorrow for Edward because it reveals to them that he wants to be normal and accepted so badly. Burton’s use