Tim Burton
Tim Burton’s Directorial style
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality,” Tim Burton says. In addition, that is shown in his movies Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands, as a gothic romance is portrayed. Tim Burton’s films show his unique and creative style in his stories, settings, and especially his characters. Film director Tim Burton utilizes close ups, low key lighting, and creepy non diegetic music in order to create a gloomy, and gothic effect revealing that society rejects those that appear to be different. Tim Burton’s films use close-ups in order to create a gothic effect on the movie. For example in Edward Scissorhands, there is a close up on Edwards pale face as peg attempts to cover Edwards’s scars on his face. This reveals a weird character of Tim Burton and as Edward stands out looking much different from the people in the community. This put emphasis and focus on Edward, making him look frightened and vulnerable to the others. Also in Corpse Bride, there was a close up on the dead brides face and skeleton hands as she come to life. These close ups give us that gothic and creepy mood as she obviously appears to be “dead,” revealing to the audience that she has come back to life. However, the audience is questioning the weird and eerie characters once again.
Tim Burton’s films also use high and low key lighting in order to create a mysterious and gothic mood. Moreover, this is shown in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory low-key lighting is used when introducing the Bucket family. The lighting with the blue dark grey colors demonstrates a depressing, gloomy town right from the beginning. The low key lighting helps convey this dark depressing mood as we now feel bad for the Bucket’s, and that the community is very boring and everyone is “similar”. Another example of low-key lighting is in Edward Scissorhands when peg walked into the mansion by herself. The lighting continued to demonstrate the
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality,” Tim Burton says. In addition, that is shown in his movies Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands, as a gothic romance is portrayed. Tim Burton’s films show his unique and creative style in his stories, settings, and especially his characters. Film director Tim Burton utilizes close ups, low key lighting, and creepy non diegetic music in order to create a gloomy, and gothic effect revealing that society rejects those that appear to be different. Tim Burton’s films use close-ups in order to create a gothic effect on the movie. For example in Edward Scissorhands, there is a close up on Edwards pale face as peg attempts to cover Edwards’s scars on his face. This reveals a weird character of Tim Burton and as Edward stands out looking much different from the people in the community. This put emphasis and focus on Edward, making him look frightened and vulnerable to the others. Also in Corpse Bride, there was a close up on the dead brides face and skeleton hands as she come to life. These close ups give us that gothic and creepy mood as she obviously appears to be “dead,” revealing to the audience that she has come back to life. However, the audience is questioning the weird and eerie characters once again.
Tim Burton’s films also use high and low key lighting in order to create a mysterious and gothic mood. Moreover, this is shown in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory low-key lighting is used when introducing the Bucket family. The lighting with the blue dark grey colors demonstrates a depressing, gloomy town right from the beginning. The low key lighting helps convey this dark depressing mood as we now feel bad for the Bucket’s, and that the community is very boring and everyone is “similar”. Another example of low-key lighting is in Edward Scissorhands when peg walked into the mansion by herself. The lighting continued to demonstrate the