Why Did Tim Burton Use Camera Angles In Edward Scissorhands

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Over the last 30 years Tim Burton creates outstanding films such as Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton has captured so many people’s attention to his great work. One can strongly agree that Tim Burton directed amazing films, and he creates emotion for the readers to understand emotions. Tim Burton uses light to control the mood of the scenes, uses camera movement and camera angles to create different feelings to the scene as well as to the reader. To start off, director Tim Burton manipulates his framing and angles to create a feeling of suspense and mysterious thought for the audience. One way Tim Burton uses this technique is in the film, Edward Scissorhands. When Peg walks up to Edward’s house, the angels begin to create suspense as Tim Burton then start to use long shot and two shots. They also use low angle when Peg goes up to the door, making a creepier and intense scene and emphasized the size of the house. As Peg enters the house, the framing is close up creating an intense outlook on the character's perspective. Tim Burton uses framing and angles to manipulate the audience attention. …show more content…

For an example, in the film Alice in Wonderland, Tim uses mood lighting in the scene where looking at the figure below, the lighting used shows a mood of fantasy as Alice drops down in the rabbit hole and enter the “Underland”. This technique creates an intense outlook on the character and give it a spooky look. Another example, Tim Burton uses lighting is Alice in the Wonderland where they used fill light in the scene when Alice looked down into the rabbit hole to reduce the hard light come directly from the sun. This created a more soft