Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques Essay

Can you understand a movie without the cinematic techniques? Well, it seems hard to me and boring. These techniques are really important for every film maker. Tim Burton’s movies are very impressive, his style can cause you to stay glued on the screen the hold time. Tim Burton’s style is characterized by an ability to create the mood of mystery and horror. He used lighting, music, and camera angles to help the audience understand the feeling of the characters or the movie.
Lighting is very important, it showed the mood of a movie. High key lighting shows cheer and happiness. Low key lighting shows shadows and darkness. I think Burton liked to display the images with mixing lighting. In “Edward Scissorhands”, Burton used high key lighting to show the town that Peg lives in is colorful and cheerful looking. It is shown that Edward is welcomed into this town, he will have a new happy life that he never had. Then in “Charlie …show more content…
For instance, in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, the Oompa-Loompas sang every time a kid is taken away. They sound so happy, but in a different way it told the audience that something is wrong with the kid. I think the kids deserved it, because they do something so crazy that they shouldn't do and disrespect. In the other movie "Edward Scissorhand", the fighting scene where Edward, Kim and Jim were in the attic and in the background, Burton put on the music so loud and fast to show that something going to happen and someone was going to be hurt or killed. Especially, Tim Burton also uses non-diegetic sound to set the mood in some scene. For example, in "Edward Scissorhand", when Peg went up the stairs in the castle, Burton uses non-diegetic sound to set the eerie and suspenseful tone making the audience feel like something scary is about to happen. Music changes throughout a movie to set the mood of a scene and to evoke emotion from the

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