Most people tend to look at their glass have empty then to look at their glass half full. Tim Burton on the other hand, looks at his glass over-filled with mysterious sea monsters that lurk in the deep abyss of his glass. Most people identify Burton’s movies as dark, unusual, and spine-chilling, but his movies always end with the main character earning success and gratification. Since, Burton has a well-blended twist to his movies, he is a well-known and
wealthy Hollywood director. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland are examples of Burton movies that the characters have to go through challenging obstacles to find their triumph. Burton uses low angles and high key lighting in Charlie and the Chocolate factory and in Alice in Wonderland to emphasize that positive attitude affects a person’s fortune.
Low angles are used in Charlie and The
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Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland to highlight the personality in the characters that will soon make them successful throughout the movie. In Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, a low angle was used when Charlie found the ten dollar bill in the snow. The low angle makes Charlie look great and powerful. When Burton shows the audience where Charlie lives, we can tell that the Bucket’s, Charlie’s family, are poor. This piece of evidence gives that audience an understanding on why Charlie is so eager about finding a ten dollar bill. When Charlie picked the paper money out of the snow, he knew that his family can use that money to buy what they needed. Before he brings the money to his family, Charlie buys a Wonka bar hoping to win the last golden ticket. This scene shows that Charlie is humble type of person. Even though he is poor, he always uses positive attitude to help him go through his life. His positive attitude will help him throughout the movie and will lead him to own the famous Wonka Factory. Likewise, in Alice in Wonderland, a low angle was used when Alice was looking down the rabbit hole as she was following the white rabbit. When the white rabbit hopped into the dark hole, she on the other hand, looked down with curiosity. Alice was curious of what was down there and maybe a little bit worried. Even though she couldn’t see the bottom of the hole, she took a leap of faith and jumped. Throughout the movie Alice has different feelings about herself and her confidence, but this scene shows the audience that she is brave by taking a risk of going into the unknown. At the end of the movie, her bravery will lead the creatures of Wonderland to go against the Red Queen and take the throne away from her. Burton uses high key lighting to show the good in the main characters.
In Alice in Wonderland, high key lighting is used at the White Queens castle. This is supposed to show that the White Queen is pure and good. In contrast, the Red Queen’s castle has a lot of shadows and darkness, causing the audience to think that she is evil and dangerous. This dramatic change helps us know which one is good and which one is evil. The scene when Alice goes to the White Queen’s castle for help, the audience can infer that Alice and the White Queen want to get rid of the Red Queen. This scene shows that Alice can’t kill the jabberwocky and destroy the Red Queen without the support and comfort from her new friends. In comparison, in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory Burton uses high key lighting when Wonka tells Charlie that he is the new owner of the world-famous Wonka Factory. Though there is a catch, his family cannot come with him to live in the factory. As much as Charlie would love to live in a chocolate wonderland, his family is more important than chocolate. This shows that Charlie is loves and respects
family. Positive attitudes affects a person’s fortune. Charlie always had a way to keep a smile on his face, even through the roughest times.
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.
In conclusion, by using the production elements of both allusion and symbolism; director Tim Burton has created the film in such a manner by making deliberate choices in order to invite a certain response. The film is constructed and given greater depth through the allusion to elements from other genres and ridicules the suburbia’s materialism and lack of imagination, which in turn enhances the invited response.
The film ‘Alice in Wonderland’, directed by Tim Burton explores the reoccurring thematic idea of nonsense and curiosity by using a vast array of different camera shots such as close-up shots and wide-angle shots. For instance, as Alice falls down the rabbit hole as a result of her curiosity, multiple close-up shots and wide-angle shots are used as she begins to pass many unusually sized objects including a bed, lamp, and piano. The close-up shots Burton has utilised in this scene allow the audience to see the confused, puzzled and scared emotions shown on Alice’s face. As a result of this, the audience is able to relate and feel
A person does not usually pay attention to cinematic techniques used in a film because one does not think of the details in the movie. These details are a key part in creating the mood and tone. Tim Burton uses similar techniques in his movies to create a suspenseful mood. Many instances of low key lighting were used to create a suspenseful mood. Along with low key lighting, low and high camera angles were used to show authority and importance. Lastly, non-diegetic sound was used to create a dramatic effect while still making the mood suspenseful.
An advocate of individuality, director Tim Burton says, “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” Growing up rather socially inept, the director has always found joy in movies and animation. After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts, he worked for Disney for a year, then left and created his own film production company. Although critics tend to label him as grotesque, his creations often comfort today’s recluses. In his films Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland, Director Tim Burton portrays the idea that one’s mind-set, not the circumstances, determine their happiness. This notion develops through style characteristics such as protagonists who use their disabilities to
Most people go their whole lives without ever discovering who they truly are. However, that is not the case for many of the main characters in Tim Burton’s unique films. Burton establishes a theme in his films that young people truly find themselves when they deviate from the path society has carved for them through his uses of misfit protagonists and magical settings in his movies.
Sitting in a comfortable seat watching a film creates emotions in the viewer from happiness to sympathy to fear. Tim Burton directed films that create all these different emotions within only two hours. Some of Burton’s films are Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and each have the same theme of horror with comedy and a moral lesson. Tim Burton's style encompasses cinematic techniques such as flashbacks, shot-reverse-shots, and front lighting to make the viewers feel connected and involved with the characters in his films.
Tim Burton uses Camera Angles in a very unique way. He uses them to reveal all of the other characters thoughts about
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.
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
The movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big fish, are all examples of how he uses different cinematic techniques to make dramatic events to keep the audience interested. He uses a series of sound, lighting, as well as shots and framing. Burton works with camera angles to expand scenes. In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when the five golden ticket winners and their parents are looking up at the factory is an example of a low angle. It shows how intimidating the factory is.
“Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child” (Tim Burton). In the films Tim Burton has created over the years, many have to deal with acceptance in big groups of people and how they influence the group. By showing how one person can influence a larger group while searching for acceptance is one of many Tim Burton’s talents and is shown in many of his famous films. Tim Burton is a well-known film director throughout the world. Some of his films include Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Big Fish, and many, many more.
There are many movies that we enjoy watching. Each one of us likes and dislikes a movie. When you watch a movie, you can see how it changes each seconds from the lighting, music, and angles. These cinematic techniques help the audience be more engaged. In tim burton's movie, they all have these 3 cinematic techniques that help us be entertained into his movies.
This significant aesthetic from Burton combines a gothic atmosphere through the use of large spaces that play with light and expressionism architecture is meant to interact with the characters and complement them. In short, what stands out in this film in relation to Expressionism, are the castle of Edward, Edward himself and one of the thematic. Burton wanted to make a double play contrasting the aesthetics of the two realities that will keep repeating them throughout his film work. In this case, the two worlds are distinguished by the clearly proven aesthetics, with some pop decoration, and the other with a mixture of expressionism and Gothic.
There are many adaptations of books to movies out there today, none more prevalent than Lewis Carroll’s works; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, Jabberwocky. While initially Carroll’s writings are considered to be literary nonsense and fanciful works he is known for his fantasy word play. Alice in Wonderland is so loved that it has been made into two movies, one is 1951 and the more recent in 2010. While much of the story has basically followed Carroll’s work, it has been adapted to fit the generations of each time period it was remade. Follow me while I examine these adaptations and fall in love with both the book and movie from Lewis Carroll’s works.