Cinematic Techniques In Tim Burton's Film

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"It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new weird way,” says Burton and that is just what he does with his films. Tim Burton adds a dark innocent mix in his morals that he feels the viewers should know and follow. Tim burton uses the cinematic techniques to form his warm and dark twist in his films. For example he uses non diegetic sound to create this mysterious feeling in the scenes and to make it warm this forms the feeling of the films. The low key lighting helps form the mysterious and dark feeling as well as the dark feeling in the scenes.
One of the techniques The mood and tone was meant to be dark but has warmth from the music and the lighting to make the scene more warm.The scene of Charlie and the Chocolate

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