In a lot of movies you have an opinion about how good the movie was. Most of the time people the movies they watch sometimes they don’t. In Tim Burton’s movies he has many cinematic techniques. One cinematic technique would be the sound. In every movie there is a suspense sound when something happens. Like in the movie Charlie in the chocolate factory every time a child disappeared different music would play or the oompa's would sing. In Edward Scissor hand whenever something happened to Edward or someone else either light or dark kind of music would play. Even in big fish when the girl and the boy were in the yellow flowers and the bully came the music was changed and the mood changed as well. Another cinematic technique would be camera
Tim Burton Tim Burton; director, of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Big fish, Edward Scissorhands, and many more loved films. Uses many different cinematic techniques to portray mood and setting. Some of these techniques are, lighting, camera angles, and music. Tim Burton first uses camera angles to portray distances and sometimes height comparison. For example;
Tim Burton's Sets The Mood When listening to scary story commonly the lights are off and the only illumination is from a flashlight placed closely under the storytellers chin. Tim Burton uses uses stylistic techniques such as low key lighting and close up shots to convey a spooky tone in his films, such as Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie in The Chocolate Factory. In the film Big Fish Tim Burton uses low key lighting to convey a spooky mood.
Tim Burton's technique “Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are. ”(Burton) Tim Burton has directed multiple iconic movies, in his movies he uses many different cinematic techniques to establish his personal style.
Throughout the years, film makers used various techniques to express their movie style. Genres in the film industry can range as far as a comedic cartoon to a dramatic tale. These motion pictures are able to captivate the audience through many cinematic techniques, such as camera angles, lighting, and more. One popular director in the film industry is Tim Burton, known for his eerie stop motions and mystical movies. Burton utilizes a variety of elements to make his childlike innocent, dark films pop.
When the inventor died in Edward Scissorhands there was music that projected a sad mood. This helps the audience connect with the movie more and intrigues the audience more. As Edward and Kim were talking there was angelic, happy music that becomes louder as Edward and Kim hug. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when Charlie finds the money on the ground, Burton uses happy music to project an exciting and magical feeling to the audience. In Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands Burton uses camera movements, camera angles, and non-diegetic music to set a certain mood that the audience should feel.
Burtons use of sound supplies an effective tool to allow the audience to understand the mood of the setting. This technique can also be found a while earlier in the movie, when the grandmother sits with the granddaughter to tell a bedtime story. There are bits of audio between the two, describing Edward Scissorhands and produces an idea of the movie topic. The grandma is almost set up as the narrator for the first part of the movie so that the audience can understand (or get an idea of the movie) the plot of the film. This also connects the opening credits to transition through scenes and carry on with the
Music can make a scene more compelling because it adds emotion to a scene. For example, in the beginning of the documentary when the narrator was talking about Kristallnacht, there was a frantic orchestra accompanying his more and added sound effects of glass breaking. It makes a person feel more anxious and frightened of what is to come and sets the tone for the documentary, since the event of Kristallnacht is one of the best pieces of evidence as to why Jewish people need to be able to escape the terrors of Hitler’s control as soon as possible. Another example is when there would be a transition of a scene to the Klein family, and the music had a melancholy tune to it and it added more to the scene to draw out more emotion from the viewers.
By simply adding the right song into a scene, it can cause the audience to really think about the events occurring in the movie resulting in suspense, intensity, joy, or any other emotions such as those. For example, in The Lion King, when Scar lets go of Mufasa, and drops him into the stampede, the orchestral piece the writers added was perfect to evoke sadness from the viewer or, in the movie, Up, when it shows Ellie and Carl through the years; it begins when they get married and life seems great, the music is higher and more upbeat, but once they grow old, Ellie needs to be rushed to the hospital, the song begins to go slower and switches to a piano with accompaniment of a harp, which makes the scene a lot more sad than before. Simple things like this can really change the final product. Students can easily apply the skills they have from doing their favorite hobby to more of an academic
Have you ever been dragged into a magical world? The strange and mysterious mind of Tim Burton's allows him to use cinematic techniques to make his films fun yet frightening. Tim Burton uses certain cinematic techniques, such as low key lighting, diegetic sounds, and low camera angles to create a gothic fun style. In his films he also creates a theme about outsiders and how they somehow fit in crazy mixed up ways. Tim Burton’s films “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and “Bigfish” all show this.
Tim Burton uses many different cinematic techniques to achieve very specific effects in his movies. The most important cinematic techniques that he uses to create his unique style are Non-Diegetic sound, lighting, eye level, and zoom. These techniques that can be seen in the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Corpse Bride, create the effects of sadness, dark moments, express the feeling of other without telling. He uses Non-Diegetic sound when he puts a song, he uses sad songs, happy songs, and more to show the feeling of the character, to give us like a hint of something that is going to happen, if it’s going to be bad or sad. He uses lighting to make the moment or scene sad or mysterious.
Burton uses sound to express something he has firsthand experience with being an outsider. For instance, in Edward Scissorhands, Edward starts walking towards Peg in the beginning there was eerie music. Once Peg saw the shadow of Edwards scissors she quickly turns away, and apologizes for intruding. Edward soon speaks up in a very soft voice teller her not to go. Edward is explaining what happened to his hands to Peg, and while he is talking choral music is playing the background.
Tim Burton’s films utilize music to enrich the viewing experience of all of his films. In the introduction of the movie Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton
Throughout his life in making films, Tim Burton has shown his unique talent and vision. He proceeds taking advantage of the cinematic techniques; lighting, sound, and camera movements creating a certain mood/tone. These three techniques are used numerous of times for the duration of each film. Although, many various emotions are constructed, there are feelings that anyone may connect to. Tim Burton is a successful filmmaker and has inspired many with the use of his cinematic techniques.
The final film technique Tim Burton uses is sounds he uses. The most popular type of sound techniques is the non-diegetic sounds. In the 1989 Batman film, Tim Burton uses a ton of non-diegetic music. In multiple scenes in the movie, often combat scenes, there is dramatic music playing in the background to enhance the tension in the audience. During the scene in Charlie and the chocolate Factory when Charlie won the last golden ticket and he was running home there was non-diegetic happy and exciting music playing in the background.
Music’s role in animation can also be to set the scene , which I came to realize in Monsters’ inc. For example, when Mike and Sully