Some of John Alvin’s well-known posters like Harry Potter‚ E. T.‚ Jurassic Park‚ and Star Wars still make me wonder how one pictures something new that does not exist‚ so new that he has to rely solely on raw‚ not inspired‚ imagination? How does one come up with a live dinosaur theme park? Having seen one‚ I now have a source of inspiration‚ but he didn’t. John Alvin was one of the most talented cinematic artists‚ with a number of world-famous movie posters that we instantly recognize. His posters
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West 1 Casey West Elston English 201B March 5th Isolation and Its Effect on Mental Health In the two stories “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” a common theme of isolation appears. The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on a woman with what her husband‚ also a physician‚ diagnoses as “slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 677). She is forbidden to go outside her home and is completely isolated from the rest of the world. She is also forbidden to express herself through
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The Corpse Bride‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ Big Fish In this essay I will be talking about different types of sound and lighting among these three movies. How they differentiate and how they are similar. The first cinematic technique I studied while watching these movies was sound. Non-diegetic sound is when the characters cannot hear the music or sound‚ it is used for foreshadowing‚ it can add suspense‚ happiness or cheerfulness. Diegetic sound is when the characters can obviously hear the music or
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Tim Burton uses many different techniques to make his films unique and differ from other directors‚ Burton has a style that no other directors can match. He has a quirky yet creepy imagination‚ he brings characters to life by putting them in a habitat they don’t belong‚ His movies Alice in Wonderland‚and Edward Scissorhands all demonstrate how one of a kind his movies are. Using cinematic techniques‚ Burtons points out the misfit character and shows how different they are then everyone else. Burtons
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! The famous director Tim Burton has a special way of making films. From the different techniques he uses and reuses‚ to the similar themes you can see in almost all his films‚ Tim Burton has a particular style when it comes to directing films. Paying close attention to his film techniques and themes‚ you start to discover a bit about him. He uses camera techniques like lighting and flashbacks to show the theme of split-worlds. A splitworlds theme is one that is supernatural‚ and is one that he
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When you Google the movie‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory you get a lot of discussion about which actor portrayed Mr. Wonka better than the other actor. There are other discussions between which version holds truer to the book. After watching numerous of times each movie one starts to wonder why no one discusses which film portrayed family and parenting issues better using the different techniques of cinema that we have learned in our film course.
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From 2003 with Big Fish to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ Burton has been making audiences feel new emotions for over 3 decades. Burton has a way for making the audience feel a certain way about certain things in his films. He can make the audience feel attached to the dark characters in his films. Many of the main characters seem to be odd or different‚ such as Edward in Edward Scissorhands he does this by using many different cinematic techniques. Each technique adds to the main theme throughout
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Tim Burton is an amazing director he uses so many different cinematic techniques to create mood and tone in some of his past movies like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”‚ “Edward Scissorhands”‚ and “Big Fish”. In each of those movies he uses cinematic techniques to create a different mood and tone. The three that stood out to me on all movies by Tim Burton were sound‚ lighting‚ and editing. Sound is a crucial part in a Tim Burton movie he uses sound in so many different ways for example in “Edward
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Themes are ideas and messages that an author or director tries to present‚ whether it be stated directly or not. The themes that are in the films and novels; Alice In Wonderland directed by Tim Burton‚ The Luck Uglies written by Paul Durham‚ The Maze Runner‚ and The Clockwork Angel‚ the viewers may pick out would be the sheer recklessness that these young characters have. These themes can be pointed out easily from their actions between these stories as well as traits such as curiosity that make
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Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton’s 1990 Edward Scissorhands creates a whole new world for viewers to enjoy: the classic‚ perfect world of suburbia with each family living the American dream versus the unknown world of an uncommonly gentle man who is nearly human. The film Edward Scissorhands shows that Edward’s gothic castle and the perfect town of suburbia are meant to be two separate worlds though Edward desires to live in a perfect world‚ and the people of suburbia desire a change of pace
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