This technique also helps set the tone as delightful. You see the darkness and how this nothingness of a factory is still so cheerful and lovely. In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses dark eerie lighting to achieve the same mysterious effect. For example, when Kevin and his friends were outside before they robbed his house, it was dark and eerie. When they shoved him into the room it was bright and empty with nothing but Edward.
The play took place exclusively in Bernard’s apartment living room. The European style apartment was realistic, yet simple with limited distractions. The apartment had wooden floors, carpet, a window, a desk, a sofa, and multiple exits and entrances. Although the window was subtle, it added depth and context to the stage. When it was nighttime, the audience could see that it was dark outside and when it was daytime, the window was lit accordingly.
This reveals his persona as more young and innocent. They are both although seen wearing darker clothing. This is a sign into to the darkness of the situation they are going to get themselves into, and what type of situations are to come through the whole film. When the sequence opens inside Mrs. Robinson’s house, there is a sense that Ben is trapped, and it is clear that he feels this way. There is dark lighting both inside and outside of the house as well as tall plants that can be seen outside every window.
Were there’s were in first rate condition. Furthermore how I mentioned early how Mickey would slouch casting the effect of an unmannered man and maybe not as well cared for. Whilst on the other hand Edward stood always erect giving a positive and confident effect. In addition throughout the play the lighting change repeatedly as when it shone on the Johnston’s house it gave a gloomy look, but when it shone on the Lyons house it gave a warming look. I obviously believe this was done intentionally, but with a second purpose.
Of the three this Hamlet is the most dressed correctly for the original time period. The interpretations of his surroundings are not as clean and arty as the other two. He looks like he is in an old style stone room with very little furnishings or lighting to distract the audience from his speaking. When Hamlet walks in he is clutching himself with his arms and seems antsy and distracted. Towards the end of his speech he pulls out his sword as he is sitting in the chair and plays with it.
Billy was originally walking in the dark when he saw the landlady’s window ‘brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp’. The contrast between the brightness of the window and the surrounding shows that the landlady’s home is somehow odd. Also when he writes about the dead dog Basil, juxtaposition is used to contrast between the warmth of the fire and the hard cold corpse. Juxtapositions point out the unusual things and make the readers anxious. Thirdly, rhetoric devices that Roald Dahl uses in his words contribute to create anxiety.
“Early that day the weather turned”, the first line in the story starts with foreshadowing, which shows that the story is setting a gloomy mood. “But it was getting dark on the inside too”, this line demonstrates to the reader that it is not just the weather that’s bad, its also the mood inside the house. As the story goes on we see the man packing his clothes in his suitcase, and the woman saying, “I’m glad you’re leaving”. This gives the reader an idea of what is going on in the story, or what is going to happen. It also shows that they are not going to be happy throughout the story.
The Swan provides a number of contrasts - light and dark, noise and quiet and formal and informal. Keller’s room is dark because of the shutters which also block out the noise from the bar below while outside there is the brilliant sunshine, the noise of the bar and the “blue singlets” of the men who patronise the pub. The school, like the Swan, depicts the lower elements of society. The concrete and asphalt construction seems only to house the delinquent element which Paul avoids by escaping to the music
As another example when Edward was trapped in Jim’s house he was trying really hard to open the door but it was impossible because of his “condition” , Burton also uses eye line match during this scene between his hands, the lock’s door and his face to highlight how different life is for Edward even in the smallest details. It makes the public support him and justifies his actions during and to the end of the movie. Tim Burton uses non-diegetic sounds to create mood and drive the audience between sadness and happiness, playing with its emotions. With non-diegetic sounds, we can understand better how character’s emotions and feeling change during the movie. At first Kim didn’t like Edward, but then she started to feel sympathy for him.
In “Araby” James Joyce tells us, “One evening I went into the back drawing-room. It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house... I was thankful that I could see so little. All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them” (Joyce 252). The boy from “Araby” was alone, with this feeling that he could not make sense of because his faith tells him that they are a sin.