Edward Scissorhands Cinematic Style Analysis

Tim Burton directed many of the famous movie like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” or “Edward Scissorhands” as a director. He uses many of the cinematic techniques to establish moods and tones. The moods and tones of his movies are dark and sometimes interesting because of his experience and influence from Walt Disney and Dr.Seuss. Tim Burton uses lighting, sound and zoom to establish his own unique gothic style. Lighting is one of the most important cinematic technique Burton use to create different types of mood. He uses couple types of lighting such as high key lighting, low key lighting and also the side lighting in order to create positive emotion, negative emotion and contrast between brightness and darkness. For example in “Edward Scissorhands” he uses high key lighting in town where everyone lives to emphasize happiness or positive atmosphere. In contrast, Edward’s house where he used to

Zoom will create impact in the scenes by either zooming in to an object or zooming out from an object. In “Edward Scissorhands” when Edward is alone and the surroundings were dark and silent, he used zoom out from Edward to the sky and made him appear small. He insert feeling of isolation and sadness of Edward by separating him from the surroundings. In “Corpse Bride” when Victor lied to Emily to meet with Victoria and Emily notice his lie and take him back to afterlife, Burton used zoom out from Victoria in order to separate Victor and Victoria. He demonstrated a frustration of Victor that he can see Victoria but can’t reach her and created imaginary wall between them. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Burton used zoom in when Willy Wonka opened the first door that lead to chocolate factory. He brought audience close to the factory to expand feeling of wonder and impacted audience by increasing the mood. Tim Burton produced impact and moods of the scene by zooming in and out from an object or the