Examples Of Cinematic Techniques In Tim Burton

For example, Burton uses non-diegetic music when Augustus Gloop fell into the river of chocolate. By the tone of the music, the audience is left in suspense thriving to know what is going to happen to Augustus. Another example of non-diegetic music was when charlie was running to his house knowing that he found the last golden ticket. By using the upbeat music, the audience is filled with joy and delight, knowing that charlie’s dream came of getting a ticket came true. In particular, in Edward Scissorhands, diegetic sounds were used when Edward was stuck in the vault.

In the Poem “Oranges” by Gary Soto the theme of the piece is, to sacrifice for others in the name of love is worth everything you have. the theme of the story, though, is improved upon by literary devices. The first literary device present in the poem is Simile. The simile helps compare the items in the story that the main character talks about or saw while in the Drugstore with his girl on the date. While going through the store he comes across candies that were “tiered like bleachers”( Soto, 26), there were so many choices and his girl picked out the chocolate on one of the shelves, although what she picked out was more expensive than he thought and couldn’t afford it.

Triggers a softening of the painful past memories among the three sisters Rosuara, Tita, and Gedrutis. This was a clear effect on how Mama Elena forced her traditional family values onto them. Chunks of chocolates mixed together with a little oil and set to dry. As a symbol of the sisters resembling the repressed emotions, each had to come to terms with on their own individuality.

Ignatius’s appetite knows no bounds. Near the beginning story, Ignatius makes his mother buy him a box of twenty-four jelly doughnuts. Patrolman Mancuso, who is visiting Mrs. Reilly to discuss the car accident, notices something strange about the same box of doughnuts: “She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone’s attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnuts out of which…the jelly had been sucked” (39 Toole).

The Cornetto trilogy is a series of British comedic genre films directed by Edgar Wright. The trilogy consists of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World’s End (2013). All three movie have some common featured scene which are presented in different ways; the five common feature that resemble each other are Cornetto ice-creams, jumping fences, value of the bars, satirical messages and fast editings. The name Cornetto Trilogy is given by film critics to the three comedy movies directed by Wright.

“And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.” Jack the Pumpkin King from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is tired of his world being so repetitive; he was ready for something new, something exciting. Tim Burton creates movies that are new and exciting. His stories are never ordinary, and his use of cinematic elements is extraordinary. He expertly uses lighting, editing, camera angles, and sound and music to pull out a wide variety of emotions from joy, to sorrow, to curiosity from viewers in films such as: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish.

Tim Burton has a very unique style, starting with the lighting, then working his way to the sound, and lastly the exotic costuming he likes his characters to wear. Tim Burton uses either lots of bright lighting or lots of dark shadows. He likes to use a mysterious type of sound track, when it comes to making his films more like him and his style. Lastly, he likes to have most of his actors in modern clothes while he has one that is in exoctic costuming. Like in his film “Edward Scissorhands”.

Brooks 's first features, "The Producers" (1968) and "The Twelve Chairs," told original stories. Since then, he has specialized in movie satires; his targets include Frankenstein, Hitchcock, Westerns, silent movies and historical epics. I usually find a few very big laughs and a lot of smaller ones in his movies, but the earlier ones are stronger than the more recent films, and I keep wishing Brooks would satirize something

Everyone and their grandmother has watched Disney movies. Some of Disney’s most iconic movies are their modern day reinterpretations of common fairy tales and the princesses with in them such as Cinderella, Jasmine, Snow White, and Rapunzel. However, anyone with eyes can notice that all of their princesses no matter their background rhave one thing in common; They are all fashionably, sometimes impossibly, skinny. And by contrast, many of the villains particularly the female ones are seen as undesirable. Being undesirable, particularly in the case of Cinderella, is shown by making her stepsisters fat and ugly.

This is best done by comparing two of his films, namely, Romeo and Juliette and The Great Gatsby. Although both these films have a large variety of common factors, such as the spectacular parties, the use of music and symbolism, it is how these techniques are executed that show us how he has evolved as a director. One technique that Baz Luhrmann has mastered is his ability to show the importance of a specific idea. This is clearly seen in his films like Romeo and Juliette, where he emphasized on the importance of violence by using guns rather than swords, he went even further in The Great Gatsby where he made Gatsby’s parties wild and crazy, not something that actually happened in the time when Gatsby is

Tim Burton’s film style essay In Tim Burton’s films, he uses various techniques to demonstrate different moods and tones. Tim Burton’s films include Edward Scissorhands, a drama film where a scientist dies before he can finish building Edward, leaving him with a freakish appearance by the scissor blades that the scientist has replaced hands for, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a adventure film where a small group of contest winners get to tour the magical Wonka factory and get a lifetime supply of chocolates, candies, and sweets. In the films mentioned before Tim Burton uses low-key and high-key lighting to create a gloomy and bright effect, and a long shot to create the distance of how far you are away from an object or a place. In

Tim Burton, a widely known and highly celebrated director and producer of several movies including Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and the 2005 version of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory were provided life by Burton’s unique usage of cinematic techniques. Burton’s handling of music was beyond spectacular as he could easily alter the mood of a scene in a matter of seconds. Not to mention his utilization of shots to capture specific angles and to aid the audience in understanding certain things such as height differences. A common technique in most of Burton’s films is the flashback which guides the audience in understanding a character's past. In this essay, I will be analyzing Tim Burton’s uses music, the long shot and the flashback.

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me”(Burton). Tim Burton, a very mysterious and dark director, had produced many unsettling but fantastic movies. Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are two very well produced movies from him, which feature common themes shown with appropriate cinematic elements. Tim Burton uses tilt, low key lighting, and non-diegetic sounds in Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to convey how creepiness can lead to curiosity. Tilts are generally used to show the vertical significance of something.

The film Edward Scissorhands, takes place in a suburban neighborhood with colorful houses and stereotypical neighbors who like to gossip about each other. While Edward is often given the impression that he is frightening and threatening because of his appearance, he uses his cursed hands as one his assets by grooming people’s hair and trimming down people’s plants into sculptures. Growing up, Tim Burton knew he had a creative mind and felt as though he was always misunderstood by others. Author Lynn Hirschberg expresses, “Burton has the manner of a precocious teenager who has spent a great deal of time happily alone.” As a kid, he did not have many friends and felt like an outcast (Hirschberg).

Tim Burton has used many stylistic techniques to give the audience an eerie and out of place feeling. For example in the film Edward Scissorhands, Tim makes suburban life look boring and pointless to the naked eye. In the film, the neighborhood appears plain and boring, filled with homes painted minty green or butter yellow. The castle where Edward thrived for years upon years is full of dust and spider webs as if the building hadn't been touched in years. We see these same style traits in the film Alice In Wonderland.