Analysis Of Tim Burton's Role Style

Tim Burton's style compared to others is quite unique. His many films do not give off the same mood and feeling that audiences are used to with child films. With some of his role models being Edgar Allen Poe and Ronald Dahl, it's no surprise that his films mix children ideas with a sense of darkness, and even at times creepiness. Tim Burton combines these feelings of child movies and darkness through the way he uses lighting, shots and framing, and to spread his message.
To begin, Tim Burton uses lighting to send the mixed emotions of child like with darkness. Examples of lighting come from the two movies Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the movie Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses a mix of lighting on Edward. At happier times,when Edward is performing haircuts, the lighting is high key and has a front lighting the face of Edward. This portrays Edward is good although Tim Burton contradicted this decision later showing that Edward is somewhat of an criminal. For example, low key and bottom lighting were used when Edward is walking towards the police as if to seem that he is a criminal. This shows how Tim Burton uses his mixed emotions to make the audience not know what to think of Edward. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the outside

In Edward Scissorhands, he uses eye level shots on most characters including Edward to show that nothing is wrong and all of them are normal. Although, he then contrasts that with using low angles on Edward’s hands to show how he is different and high angles when Peg went into the castle to find Edward to make her look vulnerable to Edward. In Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, the factory is very big and high angle shots are used as the characters walk in to show that they might not be so safe in the factory, but once they are inside, high angle is nearly not used at all to try and give this