Tim Burton Comparitive
Respond critically to significant aspects of visual and/or oral text(s) through close reading, supported by evidence
Achievement Standard English 91480:
Tim Burton is an extremely unique and quirky film director, famous for his gothic fantasy styled film, evidently influenced by the Gothic Horror genre of the twenties and thirties. He commonly uses an original and flamboyant colour scheme throughout his films, with a strong focus on blues and silvery tones. He frequently includes a characteristic narrative focus on the contrast between the ‘normal’, and the world of the oddball outcast protagonist, allowing a deep focus on an individual vs. society situation. Closely viewing both Burtons well loved ‘Edward Scissorhands’, a 1990 award winning classic, and his charming fantasy drama ‘Big Fish’ has given me a strong insight into Burton’s passions and focus’ in directional film style and creation techniques. Tim Burton uses these techniques to both create an interesting and bizarre fantasy world for his viewers to experience, but also through both of these films provides a relatable theme of an ill fitting individual’s struggle to conform to an expected society.
Burton uses Style techniques, mainly including colour and lighting, to symbolise a contrast of worlds in both films; the protagonist’s and the idealistic society’s worlds. Both townships in ‘Big Fish’ and ‘Edward Scissorhands’ share the colour theme of lightly coloured pastels in costume and setting, representational of the ‘heavenly’ idealistic view of them, whereas the location more associated with the individual main character in each of the films is set through dark blacks, greys and blue tones, creating an extremely evident and intentional diversity between the two worlds.
In Edward Scissorhands the use of colour is very prominent from the beginning of the film. As the viewer, you see the castle on the top of the hill overlooking the main suburb set in a dark grey and gloomy shade. This is
Achievement Standard English 91480:
Tim Burton is an extremely unique and quirky film director, famous for his gothic fantasy styled film, evidently influenced by the Gothic Horror genre of the twenties and thirties. He commonly uses an original and flamboyant colour scheme throughout his films, with a strong focus on blues and silvery tones. He frequently includes a characteristic narrative focus on the contrast between the ‘normal’, and the world of the oddball outcast protagonist, allowing a deep focus on an individual vs. society situation. Closely viewing both Burtons well loved ‘Edward Scissorhands’, a 1990 award winning classic, and his charming fantasy drama ‘Big Fish’ has given me a strong insight into Burton’s passions and focus’ in directional film style and creation techniques. Tim Burton uses these techniques to both create an interesting and bizarre fantasy world for his viewers to experience, but also through both of these films provides a relatable theme of an ill fitting individual’s struggle to conform to an expected society.
Burton uses Style techniques, mainly including colour and lighting, to symbolise a contrast of worlds in both films; the protagonist’s and the idealistic society’s worlds. Both townships in ‘Big Fish’ and ‘Edward Scissorhands’ share the colour theme of lightly coloured pastels in costume and setting, representational of the ‘heavenly’ idealistic view of them, whereas the location more associated with the individual main character in each of the films is set through dark blacks, greys and blue tones, creating an extremely evident and intentional diversity between the two worlds.
In Edward Scissorhands the use of colour is very prominent from the beginning of the film. As the viewer, you see the castle on the top of the hill overlooking the main suburb set in a dark grey and gloomy shade. This is