Director Tim Burton has led an interesting life, dealing with fantasy, versus reality. Or, what is normal and abnormal. Burtons very unique style of directing has been put throughout his Hollywood produced movies using cinematic techniques such as sound/music, camera shots, and color. These techniques were used in Burtons popular movies such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and “Alice in Wonderland”, “Nightmare before Christmas”, and many more.
In Tim Burton’s films, shots are greatly contributed to his movies in different scenes or objects. For example in Burtons, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Burton uses an extravagant amount of unique shots. In the beginning of the movies, Tim is showing you how the chocolate is being made and is showing extreme close ups on the delicious chocolate. He wants to show you how the one scene I subjected to chocolate, and how it has great detail. Another shot in the movie is when little Charlie Bucket is passing through the town and stops to look at the chocolate factory. In this shot he’s showing you from Charlie’s...
In the Movies that Tim burton made charlie and the chocolate factory and the Edward scissorhands Tim Burton use some great film techniques throughout the whole movies he uses great lighting,sound,editing and viewing angles. I believe there are some very good pros and very few cons.
What makes a producer’s style unique? How does a producer’s style distinguish itself from others’ styles? In Tim Burton’s imaginative productions, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one is able to identify Burton’s distinct style when peeling back the layers of his films. Summarizing these films, in Alice in Wonderland, a young woman is transported to the mystical wonderland, where she must defeat the forces of evil along with a journey of self-discovery. Next, in Edward Scissorhands, an unfinished project is discovered and integrated into the everyday lives of people in a nearby suburban town. The film shows how Edward, an unfinished man, tries to live an ordinary life and make deal with his attraction towards Kim. Finally, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a story of a boy from an impoverished family who has come upon the chance to visit Mr. Wonka’s candy factory. In these three films, Burton’s cinematic style can be depicted through his frequent use of front and back lighting and low angles to show the opposing forces between good a...
Indisputably, Tim Burton has one of the world’s most distinct styles when regarding film directing. His tone, mood, diction, imagery, organization, syntax, and point of view within his films sets him apart from other renowned directors. Burton’s style can be easily depicted in two of his most highly esteemed and critically acclaimed films, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Burton ingeniously incorporates effective cinematic techniques to convey a poignant underlying message to the audience. Such cinematic techniques are in the lighting and editing technique categories. High key and low key relationships plus editing variations evinces the director’s elaborate style. He utilizes these cinematic techniques to establish tone mood, and imagery in the films.
As each character descends into their respective psychoses, it’s important to note that their shot patterns are similar in theory but, because of the nature of the artistic craft, the shots are rhythmically different. For example, when Andrew is practicing his double-time swing, his hands start to bleed from pushing himself through the pain. Many of the shots focus on his hands or are a close shot of Andrew’s face with part of the drum kit taking up two-thirds of the frame, emphasizing the kit as his opponent. These shots are short and have a staccato-like rhythm to replicate the playing of the drums. This is contrasted with the shots of Nina performing her craft. They are similar nature and focus on the juxtaposition of the beauty of the craft
Tim Burton’s films depict his lashing back from a tortured childhood. Somehow, his movies tell his story. His first big budget movie, Batman, was a huge hit. He then chose to make Edward Scissorhands, his most personal film. Despite the fact that Batman was a hit, movie executives were reluctant to give Burton authorization. His use of cinematic techniques displays his unique style.
On August 25, 1958, Timothy Walter Burton was born (“Biography”). Burton had a painful childhood in which the relationship with his parents and brother was nonexistent (Morgenstern). Through his intense feeling of isolation, his visual talent began to develop. The comfort found in hobbies such as writing and drawing led him to attend the California Institute of the Arts which led him to his first job in any artistic field at the Disney Animation Studios (“Biography”). Burton has since been referred to as one of the most visually gifted writers, artists, and filmmakers that America has seen (Hanke). His short stories, poems, and film scripts are centered on an inner darkness which he has been slowly acquiring since his childhood. He throws himself into everything he writes and makes even the simplest characters have a deep, complex meaning. His famous darkness and symbolism is shown in his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories. The book contains a collection of his short stories, poems, and illustrations about a variety of fictional characters that can be compared to Burton and his life. Tim Burton’s home life and previous hardships have made a significant impact on his work. In my paper, I will draw parallels to his life and work as well as prove that there is reasoning and beauty in the way he is.
“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.” As a child, Tim Burton was an introvert who was shy, quirky, creative, and didn’t blend well within the social crowds of his hometown. Just like his years of youth, his style and his memorable characters are misfits that don’t fit into any category. Having a child-like horror sense, the movies Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish all exhibit Burton’s unique style. In order to portray his style Tim Burton uses the cinematic techniques of shot-reverse-shot, flashback, and low angle.
...has come an extraordinary way from being an avid film viewer to establishing and making films himself. He ornately uses dark, gothic themes across the majority of his works that distinguish him from others in the industry. It is to Burton’s huge advantage that nobody “can see any of [his] films and not know immediately that it’s [his],” (Weinstock, 217). His recurring ability to introduce characters that are an obvious extension of himself, allows viewers to connect with Burton as an individual as well as find comfort in their own imperfections. He excels in developing characters that adopt the role as the anti-hero and protest against the conventional hero. Together, the themes intertwined into Tim Burton’s works function to push the boundaries of film away from the ordinary, and to allow him to exclusively remain an outsider working in a mainstream business.
Tim Burton and many other directors use cinematic techniques to make their movies stand out from all of the rest. Without these, the movies would be lackluster with the audience and the critics. Cinematic techniques in movies help convey the feeling of fright and horridness. For example, Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses low key lighting to show mystery and make the scene frightening.
“...Everything in this room is eatable, even I’m eatable! But that is called "cannibalism," my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.” This quote from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory does not only unveil Tim Burton’s dark side, but exhibits his kind of filming style. Tim Burton is known for being a famed director, a screenwriter, and a producer. He is influenced by Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, and many other people. Burton is best known for his use of dark and delightful elements in films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. Burton’s film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is about a poor young boy, named Charlie Bucket, who gets the last golden ticket out of five other winners that Willy Wonka had sent out for the children; to tour the questionably yet outstanding candy maker’s unbelievable factory. In the film Edward Scissorhands, it is about an invention who became incomplete after its inventor had died, leaving him with scissors for hands. Some cinematic techniques Tim Burton harnesses to form
Burton uses close-up camera angles to show significant items in his film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton uses a close-up camera angle when Charlie finds the golden ticket to show how it is significant to the story. The golden ticket is significant because it is like his ticket to a new and better life. In Edward Scissorhands there is a close-up of the hands his inventor was going to give him which is very significant to the story because if his inventor finished him and
Not only does Burton use specific shots and frames to “show” the story, but he uses them to enhance the characteristics of unnatural characters. Tim Burton uses a long shot in the scene where fifteen foot giant, Karl, realigns Jennifer's house under Edward Bloom’s direction. This decision to use a long shot was effective because it gave the audience a good sense of how tall Karl was, how strong Karl was, and how helpful Karl could be. Despite the fact that the house should have fallen apart when Karl pushed it back in alignment because of the poor structure and foundation, the long shot illustrates how magical, and fantacious this story is. Tim Burton also uses this technique in another one of his films in order to, again, develop his fictitious characters and create a sense of an out-of-this-world setting.
In order for Burton, or any other director for that matter, to create such masterpieces they have to make a series of decisions involving a wide variety of cinematic techniques.
Tim Burton is an American film producer, artist, writer, and animator. Three of his most popular created movies include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and The Corpse Bride. In each of these movies, Tim Burton displays elements of stylistic techniques that improve the quality of the movie as a whole. These techniques include lighting, editing, angles, movements, sound, and framing. The angle at which a scene is filmed helps the audience connect with the characters. The lighting of a particular scene helps create the mood and tone by which the audience views the movie. Sounds that can or cannot be heard in the movie foreshadow and show relationships, actions, and characteristics of the characters. The framing and type of shot of a scene can highlight details and make the audience feel that they are with the character. Types of movement can reveal a personal moment about a character and show importance of a certain scene. Finally, the editing techniques used in a movie also give more
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