Tim Burton: Film Analysis Essay

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Have you ever thought of how movies create mood and emotions?In Tim Burton’s successful movies, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Burton tries to evoke an emotional response from you. The film Edward Scissorhands is about an invention that have scissor as hands created by an artistic and adventurous inventor. This story revolves around Edward who is taken from the castle on top of the hill where he considered home to a suburban life. In Charlie & the Chocolate factory, a boy named Charlie is able to obtain one of the five Golden Tickets to tour the Chocolate Factory full of surprises. Charlie Bucket is from a poor family and lives in a rickety house in London. Aside from that, Tim Burton’s uses lighting in the setting and Camera Angles to create emotion to convey what the character feel inside in contrast to their surroundings. To create emotions in Burton’s films, he uses high key lighting to make a place look bright and open. During a scene in Edward Scissorhands, Burton purposely put high key lighting to make the shopping center bright making you convey a feeling of happiness and amazement for Edward. Likewise in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, low key lighting is shown when Willy Wonka is talking about the factory to the kids and their parents. So then, it makes you fill like the place was huge and could fit many people. Besides that, Burton also uses Camera angles to show the viewers if a certain thing or person is powerless or not. In Edward Scissorshands, there was a high angle when Peggy was climbing the stairs in Edward’s dark Mansion. That scene built tension in the audience’s eye making them feel scared and impatient. In addition, Burton demonstrated again the magic of camera angles in another one of his films Burton, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. During this film, Burton uses Augustus Gloop with an eye level while the other

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