The well-known director Tim Burton has been appealing audiences all around the world by creating creepy and mysterious feelings while also satisfying his audiences with fun childlike plot lines. Burtons style is shown throughout his many movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride. These movies and many more show the directors style as being creepy and mysterious, but also makes it enjoyable for children and families to watch. With the use of cinematic technique Tim Burton is able to create his spooky and addicting style. In the movies above, cinematic techniques are used through and through to portray that creepy, mysterious and dark style that Burton has conveyed through his many movies and Claymation's.
Tim Burton uses his mysterious and creepy characteristics and expressed it through his film Edward Scissorhands Burton uses his unique style of editing that helps understand the main character’s, Edward’s, background. In comparison with the editing the sound helps understand the meaning of certain part such as the suspense of what would happen to Edward in the end. The costuming was a peculiar choice, it shows how in the town there was a lot of colors, but, Edward wore an all black steam punk like clothing showing how he was different. Therefore Tim Burton’s character, Edward, is a somewhat reflection of himself. Like Burton he has an imagination in order to create “art”, and the style of clothing is alike to that of Burton’s.
Edward scissorhand is a movie made in 1990 directed by Tim Burton. Through the verbal and visual features, the director has used numerous of film techniques such as costumes, colour and shot types. He connects these techniques to relationships, conformity, difference, stereotypes and isolation. Tim Burton has used these effects to help the audience to have a deeper understanding on the particular issues in the movie.
Tim Burton uses camera movements, camera angles, and sound in Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to create the right mood for the audience to feel. Creating the right mood allows the audience to connect to the movie and to be intrigued by the movie. In Edward Scissorhands, Burton uses camera movements to create a sad mood. In a flashback, the camera moves with the inventor, who made Edward, as he takes Edward's hands out of a box and walks over to Edward before he dies, without getting to put Edward's real hands on.
In Tim Burton’s film Edward Scissorhands he explores how global societies are losing the values, idioms, and imperfections that separate them, and instead, we are replacing them with globally accepted beliefs regarding perfection and normalities. In the film, Tim Burton creates a microcosm which allows us to safely view our own imperfections without bias. This problem has become so vast in all societies across the world to the point where it is influencing much of our pop-culture. There is however, a change coming, a change throughout the world calling upon people to embrace their individuality and their
“Innocence is what he knows, beauty is what she sees.” -In the words of Edward Scissorhands. The well-respected and director Tim Burton is always admired for his distinctive yet astonishing films. He uses many cinematic techniques in one of his most popular films, Edward Scissorhands, but a wide variety he uses would be some such as framing/angles, music/sound and lighting.
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.
Tim Burton’s creative costuming has created a new perspective on movies. In the film “Edward Scissorhands” Burton uses dark costuming for Edward to show what he’s been through and to show how everyone sees him. The people in the town wear colorful clothing that portray that they are cheerful, dramatic people. The costuming shows what time they are in by giving them clothing like mom jeans, pops of color, mismatched patterns, and puffy or permed hair. “Anybody that has seen a Tim Burton film will recognize that the director has a fondness for costumes with a 19th century Victorian flavour, even if the story is set in more modern times.”
Tim Burton's Cinematic Techniques There are many important cinematic techniques directors use to get the right mood and reaction out of the viewers without directly telling people what to feel. Tim Burton the director for these three films being used uses many of the techniques, but the main affective ones were close up shots, low key lighting, and non-diegetic music. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory close-up shots were used to get a more detailed idea of how the characters in the movie are feeling. In the scene where Charlie found the golden ticket in the chocolate, the directors took a close-up shot to show the excitement and amazed look in his face. Close-up shots appeared in Edward Scissorhands in the scene when Edward was cutting the women’s hair in the neighborhood.
Tim Burton and his use of Flashbacks and Color Tim Burton, a film director, portrays a ghoulish cinematic style, through the use of flashbacks, relationships of characters, and the use of bright colors in a bleak setting. This gives him and his work the desired effect of showing the unexpected twist of what is seen and what actual meaning is. This could be found in the characters and the setting. His style also shows the depth that can also be found in both “Edward Scissorhands” and “Charley and the Chocolate Factory”. Flashback is used to look back at what has happened in the past.
In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation, he was a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish his hands. Instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Furthermore, he has lived alone, until a kind lady discovers him and welcomes him into her home. A well as he shows his true talent by cutting hair, grooming pets and making beautiful ice and topiary sculptures.
The Cinematic Techniques of Tim Burton Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in all his work. Burton mostly uses cinematic techniques such as lighting, sound, and camera movements/angles. In the essay I will be using Burton’s work Alice Through The Looking Glass, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. In Burton’s movie Edward Scissorhands Burton uses high-key lighting when showing the neighborhood to show how bright, happy, and normal the neighborhood was before Edward was taken into the neighborhood. Burton also uses pan when a character in the movie is walking or driving.
Burton exemplifies the fact that childlike innocence is key in life throughout his films. In Edward Scissorhands he uses Edward’s naivety and childlike innocence to show how he can succeed in his new town. Edward doesn't understand why the wives in the town keep asking him for favors like a new haircut or trimming the hedges, but the audience knows that they are using him for his talent not the person he is. In this, Edward succeeds by fitting into the town because his childlike innocence makes him oblivious to what the town people really want him for.
Tim Burton is well known film director. The movies that he has created are often described as mysterious, odd, and intriguing. Burton's movies use certain film techniques to create a certain feeling for the audience to experience. The three main techniques that Tim Burton usually uses is the lighting, camera angles, and sound techniques.
Throughout his life in making films, Tim Burton has shown his unique talent and vision. He proceeds taking advantage of the cinematic techniques; lighting, sound, and camera movements creating a certain mood/tone. These three techniques are used numerous of times for the duration of each film. Although, many various emotions are constructed, there are feelings that anyone may connect to. Tim Burton is a successful filmmaker and has inspired many with the use of his cinematic techniques.
