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 …show more content…
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 …show more content…
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
Tim Burton Creepy, unique, and gothic are some of he’s characteristics in he’s movies and clips like Edward Scissorhands and Beatlejuice, and Corpse Bride, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and also in the clip of “Vincent”. He’s very dark but creative of he’s use of lighting, costumes, and music in he’s clips, movies, and TV shows. Tim Burton twisted style is best conveyed through his use of showing danger, creating mood, and developing character. Tim Burton’s use of lowkey lighting makes the movie darker and shows something creepy or bad. For example in Edward ScissorHands when Peg, the saleswomen, went upstairs to see Edward the lighting was low key, showing Edward was creepy.
In the movie Big Fish, low-key lighting was used in the scene where Edward sees the imaginary girl in the lake. The effect was used to create a feeling of suspense because the town of Specter was perfect, in fact so perfect it gave you an eerie feeling because you didn’t know what to expect out of it. Whereas in the movie Edward Scissorhands, Low-key lighting was used to enhance the creepiness in the scene where Peg meets Edward at the old mansion on the hill. This technique was used to to make the Audience see who Edward was and what a freak he was. Not all lighting in Burton’s films were all depressing, dark, and eerie.
In a scene you can see when the inventor was in his factory the lighting was pretty dark because his creativity is not the usual one that other people would call exciting. This reveals how the inventors has different ideas, creations as well as his different type of thinking. Since he was all alone in his mansion and factory he thought about getting company to fill up his happiness. As a result, the lighting makes him appear unique and help create a consoling tone for him.
Tim Burton is a very unique director. In his involvement in cinema he has directed some very unique movies. All of Burton's movies follow a unique style. Tim Burton uses sound, lighting, and camera angles to set this unique mood in his films such as: Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish.
Moves can show emotion in ways real life can not and Tim Burton’s films do this by creating emotions that are contradictory. An emotional state or reaction is a feeling and movie directors use them to help create stories. Some of the best movies make you feel multiple ways at once to make your movie going experience the best it can be. he uses close ups, music, and low key lighting to create comidikly unnerving feelings in the audience. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Charlie) was a children 's story that Tim Burton adapted and turned it into a slightly darker story than the one we knew.
Tim Burton is famous for his unique cinematic style in films such as Edward Scissorhands, and his renditions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. In these three films, I will focus on the extreme contrast between the settings, and what that leads the viewer to assume as they watch the movie. Many elements in his films are deceiving at a first glance, but once you get another perspective, their true natures are revealed. In Alice in Wonderland, Burton introduces Alice in a rich, privileged world where she is being forced to marry someone.
In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses low-key lighting to incite fear and suspense in the audience. For example, when Peg enters the attic this type of lighting is used to make Edward appear evil or menacing,
In the beginning of each film burton uses extremely wide camera shots to capture the world his characters are living in. in Edward Scissorhands Tim contrasts this huge dark mountain to the bright energetic suburbs, while in Charlie and the Chocolate factory Tim focuses on the gloomy town that Charlie resides in. As burtons films continue he brings in each character at an eye level shot, close up, or extreme close up of just their face. This type of shot establishes the importance of each character. Burton continues each film to insert the watcher into the characters perspective as if you’re sitting at the table with Edward or looking up at Willy Wonka just as Charlie would.
Tim Burton claims to be one of the greatest directors of all time. Tim Burton has won six awards in total, four of them being for his films Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Beetlejuice. His other two awards were for the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Empire Legend Award in 2012. Tim Burton’s movies often have a dark and twisted setting, but he also finds a way to implement a bright, happy, and kid-friendly side. Tim Burton has a distinct way of storytelling by making movies dark and terrifying, but also childish at the same time.
Burton uses lighting to show fantasy and reality in his movies. In the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory high key lighting represents fantasy. The lighting is used in Willy Wonka’s factory showing that it is every kid’s dream to visit it. Although it is his fantasy, Charlie knows that a fantasy is all it ever will be.
Tim Burton is one of the best directors to date. His ability to intertwine creepiness themes and tones into plots and the characters and still maintain the necessities to watch an enjoyable is unimaginable. Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are both adequately produced movie that show Tim Burton’s prodigal filmmaking abilities. The thematic elements are vivid and applicable to the scene to put actors and even the audience under suspense and eager to know their
Tim Burton is known for his comical but suspenseful films. Some of his best known movies were Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands. Similar literature films can have less of meaning and surround around fantasy beliefs. Tim Burton uses the format of film to pull the spectator in and to teach some type of life lesson. In the two films Edward Scissorhands and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, but relies on cinematic techniques such as editing and camera angles.
There are many different techniques used in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, involving the use of the camera. For example, when the oompa loompas are singing about each naughty child, the scene is shot as a pan or a long shot. By using these techniques, it may show the size of the oompa loompas or their dances to express their emotions together, this attracts the viewers. The use of the camera movements, produces a more interesting effect. Tim Burton knows how to use camera movements to his advantage in all of his films created.
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.
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.