Framing is a set camera position in a scene. The frame could be zoomed in, be taken from a bird's eye view, or even upside down. It adds a frame to a moving scene, it's like a picture frame but in a video. Burton uses a lot close-up frames to get the character's emotions shown during a scene. In Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, the framing is zoomed in to Augustus' face to show his eagerness to eat all the candy he gets to make visual contact with. This also adds to the audience knowing that Augustus is a fat and gluttony. A few moments later, the framing changed to a bird's eye view and a tracking camera movement to show Augustus being shot up the chocolate pipe. Then the framing zooms in to his face to show how terrified Augustus was. Close-up …show more content…
This close-up showed how astonished Lydia was by everything happening in the attic. The lighting in Lydia's side of the door was very low-key so that the bizarre green light could hit her face. Her facial expression also showed her astonishment of finding ghosts in her attic. Different, yet many, camera framings were used in Edward Scissorhands. There were many facial close-ups to show facial expressions and feelings all throughout the film. The close-ups also showed Edward's scars from struggling having scissors as hands. Close-ups also caught other character's facial expressions so the audience could see what they're feeling inside.
Coloring is filter, but for a film, it tells the audience what the time period is, what the mood is, or what place the characters are in. Just like a filter, they enhance the mood of a picture, in this case, a film. Burton's movies all have different coloring so because they have different plots. In most of his introduction credits he focuses on a certain color and raises the saturation on it. The color pops out from the rest to get attention on it. This coloring was used in the introduction credits for Edward Scissorhands. The fierce shade of blue really popped out