Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques

What makes Tim Burton’s films so unique compared to others? The motion pictures chosen were Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) directed by Tim Burton. Edward Scissorhands is a fantasy and drama film produced in 1990. The film is about a boy who is assembled by a scientist that dies before he can finish his work. This caused the boy Edward to have scissors for hands and have a strange appearance. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 comedy adventure film about young Charlie Bucket and his grandfather Joe as they join a limited group of contest winners who won a visit to the eccentric candy maker's magic and mystery factory, Willy Wonka. The director of these motion pictures, Tim Burton, attended animation

Tim Burton’s film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was eminently colorful, and unconventional. He achieved this style by the cinematic techniques he used. One of Tim’s most common cinematic techniques he used was low-key lighting, the scene that best shows this type of lighting is when they show the whole city of London, England from above and the audience is shown how dark and depressing the city looks. This scene shows low-key lighting exceedingly well because it truly shows how dark the city was because Willy Wonka’s factory had closed. Low-key lighting in this film helped this eminently colorful movie have darker moments in the scenes that he used low-key lighting. Tim used it to make those scenes more suspenseful and creepier with all the shadows. Another Technique that Tim Burton uses frequently is non-diegetic sound. A scene that best shows non diegetic sound is when Charlie and Grandpa Joe have arrived at the factory and there outside the gate entry and the audience obtains a bird’s eye view of the factory and all the people

In Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Tim uses low-key lighting to give this more heartfelt film a creepy vibe at the right times, one of the best scenes that shows this when Kim, Jim (Kim’s boyfriend), they’re group of friends, and Edward break into Jim’s parents’ house because Jim wanted money for a van, they take Edward with them and take advantage of his ability to pick locks and his inosines, then the alarm gets set off and everyone except Edward escapes, despite Kim’s angry insistence that they return for him. This scene was quite dark and dramatic it was supposed to cause the audience to feel anxious about what is going to happen next, they use the low-key lighting to give this scene a creepier dark feel to it with all the shadows this lighting effect causes. In this specific scene the director, Tim, uses low-key lighting to construct Edward into looking dangerous and villainous even though the audience know that the villain is Jim. In this motion picture the director used one specific cinematic technique the most by far and that was non-diegetic sound the scene that best shows the audience what non-diegetic sound was in the beginning of the film when Mrs. Boggs a door-to-door makeup sales lady walks through the gates of Edwards late creators’ home