Tim Burton is a famous filmmaker. Burton has developed many films over the years that he has worked. In many of his films he has a dark and creepy setting. The lighting helps establish the setting. In most of his movies he makes a dark and frightening tone and this is partially caused by lighting.
In Burton's Coraline he uses the cinematic technique, lighting to implement the tone that is used throughout the entire movie. The lighting effects the mood and the tone that the writer wants you to feel frightened at some points. At some points in the movie when the lighting goes darker the scene may seem more intense and more frightening. This darkness that he chooses makes some places seem bad and other places worse. While in some scenes it looks light and happy and in others it is so dark that you might not be able to see, it is all in the magic of the lighting.
Burton has also used darkness to hold suspense as he did in his popular film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He builds up this suspense so that way he can use it to his advantage in the future. This may also help him decide the tone of the movie. While the lighting and other cinematic techniques may not agree, the lighting plays a huge
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He uses the lighting to his advantage to show a lightly lit town and how it's creepy ways develop the mood as scary and as a frightening little town. While Burton implies, this with the tone, people tend to get creeped out by it and while he may enjoy it it usually keeps people on the edge of their seats. This can also be used to scare as in when Oogie Boogie takes Santa Claus into his lair and messes with him. He also uses the lighting in that scene to flash dark and light colors so that it implements a tone that sticks throughout the movie. It is intense and fast moving and it is scary also intense while you are waiting for something to happen. The lighting in the movie effects everything as you can