De’Untre’ Griggs Griggs/1 Ms. Allen 9th Quest Lit/6 17 December 2012 Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques Essay (Embedded Assessment 2) Exotic, unique, fantastic, insane, brilliant, visionary, phenomenal, these are all words that come to mind when you see Tim Burton’s films. He has directed many movies like Alice in Wonderland, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and many other amazing films. In his films he uses cinematic techniques to emphasize and convey emotions & feelings. For instance, Tim Burton in Corpse Bride and Edward Scissor hands uses lighting and sound to establish both dull and exciting moods in both films. Tim Burton uses light in a very special way in both Corpse Bride and Edward Scissor hands.
A few years later, Elfman composed his first score for a film being directed by his brother. From here, he soon met Tim Burton and was asked to score the music for Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. This was a great success thus starting a partnership between Elfman and Burton. Besides composing all of the music for Tim Burton films, Elfman has worked with other
The feelings I listed made me infer that something bad was going to happen as the story progressed. 2. What can we infer about Doodle based on his description? What I gathered from the description the narrator gave me about Doodle was that he was weak and disabled but he was also resilient. I use the word resilient because although the doctors, and his parents, and lots of other folks were saying that he can't do this or that; in the end he ended up being successful and completing every task they said that he won't be able to do.
Growing up involves challenges, but also rewards as it is a process different for everyone. The concept of growing up is explored in the film, 'Dead Poets Societs, directored by Peter Weir, and the related text, 'Flight From Fear', by Joanne Feddler. The film demonstrates the concept of growing up through the experiences of one of the antagonists, Neil Perry. In the film, 'Dead Poets Society', Neil Perry is an easily influenced young man who has a strong desire for achievement, he is a natural leader and admired by all of his friends. However, Neil's strong drive for achievement is cut short by his father who has an overbearing influence and control over Neil's life.
Tim Burton The quiet, non sociable, shy, unhappy, weird, million dollar director Tim Burton. Good morning teacher and students. It is incredible how Tim Burton became such a success with a background like his. As a child growing up he was a quiet, unsocial boy, who never did well at school and would come home to sit in his wardrobe to draw, what his teachers described as “weird, gothic sketches”. His teachers would say he would go nowhere in life, his parents would fight continuously and he found it very difficult to make friends.
Francesca Garcia Mrs. Welsh 6th Period 21 September 2012 The Weaknesses of Knowles’ Two Main Characters Just as the great Mark Twain said,” we all live in the protection of certain cowardice which we call our principles.” In A Separate Peace, young boys lives are recorded at Devon Prep School. Living in a protected environment has its perks, especially with a war going on. Yet the young men were weak; they were feeble in character, handicapped in the skills of handling a real world situation. Incapable of controlling their over the top emotions or scenarios that would make anyone drop to their knees and weep. Both of the main characters, Gene and Phineas, are equally weak, but only because of what they were exposed to or
I think he did this because, he wanted to get bigger roles in movies and not get small roles that know one noticed him. I think James Stewart became the most famous when he did movies with Alfred Hitchcock. I think his two best movies were Vertigo and Rear Window. I think he was a perfect fit for these two movies because, he just seemed like that type of guy in real life. He continued making films into the late 60’s until his hearing problems got to
The Amazing Spider-Man I chose the film The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) for movie review assignment. The series of “Spider-Man” is one of famous hero movie which is based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. As many people have, I really have been expecting and waiting for The Amazing Spider-Man to release for a long time since I love hero films and I would listen to music of Marvel Entertainment. The film is a reboot of the Spider-man film franchise which is portraying the character’s origin story and his development into a superhero by being shot in 3D. The director of the music in the film is James Horner who wrote the score for the film.
“All Directors have their own unique style”. Tim Burton is a great director and like most great directors, Burton has his own unique style. His style is unusual, strange, and gothic. Tim Burton like’s to explore the living and the dead in a lot of his moves and he also likes to explore reality vs madness in his film through different personalities, gothic themes, colour and symbolism. Colour is used very well in Tim Burton’s films for example in sleepy hollow (1999) it is a very dark film, not just in terms of themes but also in the images and shots themselves.
Progressing to working as an assistant for Roberto Rossellini on Open City, Fellini was exposed to neorealism, the cinematic movement that used non-professional actors and worked on actual locations for realness, for the first time. Thus he started learning to produce films on raw materials and reality. Shortly, Fellini was able to produce his own films. Fellini's first directing product, with Alberto Lattuada, was Variety Lights (1950). Though some critics described it as a failure, its revenue allowed him to direct his first solo film, The White Sheik (1952).