Editing Techniques In Tim Burton's Movies

Tim Burton has always had a unique style throughout his movies. This could be due to many things in his life, such as his love of fairy tales and his fondness of Edgar Allen Poe, who is known for his dark poems and stories. But one thing that stands out in all of his movies is his use of stylistic techniques. Specifically sound, camera angles, and editing techniques. These techniques can be heavily seen in all of his movies, particularly in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. Overall, Tim Burton uses sound, camera angles, and editing techniques to create and control the mood of the scenes in his movies. For starters, Tim Burton uses sound to create a sense of suspense and anticipation throughout his movies. One example of this

As they begin to float down the river there is a oompa loompa that plays a steady beat on a drum located at the end of the boat. This beat continuously gets faster and faster as the boat begins to increase its speed. This adds anticipations as to where they are going and why they are in such a hurry. Along with adding suspense because the audience doesn’t know how fast the boat is going to get and the sound of the drum getting faster makes the audience wonder if the boat will be able to stand going that fast or if it will simply fall apart. Another example of Burton using sound to create anticipation and suspense is in the movie Big Fish. One scene in Big Fish that shows this is when Edward and Carl leave the small town of Ashton and go to the circus. After Carl makes his dramatic entrance, the circus puts on a big dramatic exit performance. This performance includes all of the circus staff, including contortionists, tricycle riders, clowns, and many more performers. But through all of this Eddie sees a beautiful young girl with strawberry blonde hair, hazel eyes, and a beautiful sky blue dress. He instantly falls in love and times slows down drastically. All the performers and audience

One of these things is his use of different camera angles. Specifically, he uses camera angles to add a feeling of connectedness between the characters and the audience. An example of his unique use of camera angles can be found in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There is a scene in the movie where Wonka leads the group into a room with squirrels. These squirrels are trained to find good nuts and throw the bad nuts down the garbage shoot in the center of the room. Veruca Salt, a spoiled and greedy little girl, decides she wants one because she doesn't have enough pets at home in her eyes. Wonka refuses to sell her dad one so she takes it upon herself to walk down into the room where the squirrels are and get one herself. Sadly, this doesn’t end in her favor. When she first tries to grab a squirrel all of the squirrels attack her. This ends in her being pinned to the ground as her father and the others helplessly watch from above. The squirrels then determine if she is a good or bad nut but knocking on her head and listening. They determine that she is a bad nut and she is thrown down the garbage shoot. While she falls deeper and deeper into the shoot the camera has a high angle of the drop. This makes the audience feels as if they are standing right at the top of the shoot and watching her fall, connecting the audience to the scene. In Big Fish This