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“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality (Tim Burton).” Burton’s craziness manages to trickle into his unique directing style. His movies are renowned for being able to be very deep and dark, yet still be appropriate to be watched by children. Through movies like Edward Scissorhands, Charlie in the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton portrays his childlike directing style with grim twists. His style is very easy to spot throughout all of his films because he uses his own spin on sound, lighting and camera angles to implement his dark and bizarre style to his movies. One of his signature grimm, childlike styles is created through the lighting he uses throughout his films. Burton likes to contrast between …show more content…

Frequently Burton likes to use angelic like choruses singing in his movies. This occurred in Edward Scissorhands, where an eerie chorus plays over the introduction. This helped set the tone for the movie, giving the movie a dark feel right from the beginning. However in movies like Alice in Wonderland, some of the soundtrack used has nobody singing. Instead, an orchestra will play a fast paced symphony in order to show that a character is in peril. This happened when the menacing Bandersnatch was chasing Alice through a dark forest. Sometimes Burton uses emphasized sound to add more detail to his films as well. Like when the kids are let loose into the edible room in Charlie in the Chocolate factory. Each candy makes its own loud, distinct sound and each kid chooses his or her favorite candy. This helps the audience establish deeper connections with the characters. Emphasized sound helped make the film more uncanny as well. When Augustus Gloop got sucked up into the chocolate tube it appeared as if the sounds that the tube and chocolate were louder than what the characters heard. That combined with the non-diegetic dramatic music that played over the scene helped the audience experience some of the anguish that Augustus’ mother was feeling. The diegetic and non-diegetic sound in Burton’s films help to add a dark element to

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In Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, they both have the use of non-diegetic sound. Non-diegetic sound is the sound that the viewers can hear but the characters cannot. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, during the into of the movie there was upbeat/intense music playing while going through the makings of the chocolate. The music made the scene in the movie stand out to the viewers by getting more intense during the actions that meant something to the later on effect of the movie. If there was only diegetic sound during this scene you would have only been able to hear the machines which wouldn’t have left the same effect on the viewers.

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But Burton can also create a happy and enlightening feeling also like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In both films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands, Burton uses Lighting to help create a mood or feeling for the viewer. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when the kids enter the factory and Willy Wonka shows them where the chocolate is made, everything is bright and colorful. This creates an enlightening and happy mood. Burton can also use lighting to create a dark, and ominous feeling or mood.

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For example, when Peg has gone into the mansion and yelling to see if anyone was home. In the movie Pegs heels are clicking against the concrete floor creating an echo sound. The effect is to let the audience know that the house is empty and lonely but also that Peg is desperate to sell her Avon products. This effect is achieved by the light and curious music in the back and the heel clicking and how they emphasize it by how loud it is and how much Peg is moving around the room, until she continues up the stairs. Tim Burton effectively uses non-diegetic music along with diegetic music to create a suspenseful mood shown in this scene of this

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Burton uses sound to express something he has firsthand experience with being an outsider. For instance, in Edward Scissorhands, Edward starts walking towards Peg in the beginning there was eerie music. Once Peg saw the shadow of Edwards scissors she quickly turns away, and apologizes for intruding. Edward soon speaks up in a very soft voice teller her not to go. Edward is explaining what happened to his hands to Peg, and while he is talking choral music is playing the background.

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It helps make the audience feel like they're in the film and at the end of their seat. These examples show that Burton uses sound to help push his story and build the connection between the audience and the

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Burtons use of sound supplies an effective tool to allow the audience to understand the mood of the setting. This technique can also be found a while earlier in the movie, when the grandmother sits with the granddaughter to tell a bedtime story. There are bits of audio between the two, describing Edward Scissorhands and produces an idea of the movie topic. The grandma is almost set up as the narrator for the first part of the movie so that the audience can understand (or get an idea of the movie) the plot of the film. This also connects the opening credits to transition through scenes and carry on with the

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Tim Burton’s distinct style became evident in his very first films and stayed clear in his later film, while the plot of Burton’s films vary greatly his style stays pronounced. This can be seen across his many movies from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, “Vincent”, and “Frankenweenie”. In all of these films his distinct style is developed through the use of a strong contrast of high and low key lighting to show contrast between characters and circumstances, a recurring motif of mobs antagonizing the antagonist, and the frequent use of shot reverse shots to show the development of the relationship between the outsider and the people on the inside. With the use of a contrast between high and low-key lighting, a recurring mob motif, and the use of shot-reverse-shots Tim Burton develops his hopelessly bleak style. One of the most evident cinematic techniques that Tim Burton uses to develop his hopelessly bleak style is the use of a strong contrast of high and low-key lighting or colors.

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Like a gothic mastermind, Tim Burton incorporates dark, grotesque, child-like themes in his cinematic style. A director’s cinematic style is how their film is recognized and the techniques in their films to give their work value. Tim Burton is known for his unique cinematic style that has made his films one of a kind. Tim Burton’s style is made so unique through his use of sound tracking, lighting, and costuming for his films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. Tim Burton applies sounds such as background music and sound effects to add reality and emphasis to the film and to create a certain, precise moods.

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In Victor’s dreadful real life, there is dreary and bleak music that symbolizes his disbelonging, but when he goes to the underworld the music is bright and buoyant, welcoming him in with open arms. Likewise, in Edward Scissorhands, Edward’s home is introduced with eerie, chilling, nerve-wracking music that is used to make his home seem frightening, and in contrast Peg’s home is shown accompanied by lighthearted and carefree music. This helps the viewer feel like they are in Edward’s shoes and feel welcome and belonging in the new neighborhood away from the mansion. To clarify, Burton’s application of the cinematic technique non diegetic sound is used to express the message that no one is truly alone, they just feel secluded from the rest of the

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When the inventor died in Edward Scissorhands there was music that projected a sad mood. This helps the audience connect with the movie more and intrigues the audience more. As Edward and Kim were talking there was angelic, happy music that becomes louder as Edward and Kim hug. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when Charlie finds the money on the ground, Burton uses happy music to project an exciting and magical feeling to the audience. In Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands Burton uses camera movements, camera angles, and non-diegetic music to set a certain mood that the audience should feel.

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Tim Burton uses many different cinematic techniques to achieve very specific effects in his movies. The most important cinematic techniques that he uses to create his unique style are Non-Diegetic sound, lighting, eye level, and zoom. These techniques that can be seen in the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Corpse Bride, create the effects of sadness, dark moments, express the feeling of other without telling. He uses Non-Diegetic sound when he puts a song, he uses sad songs, happy songs, and more to show the feeling of the character, to give us like a hint of something that is going to happen, if it’s going to be bad or sad. He uses lighting to make the moment or scene sad or mysterious.

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