Low Key Lighting In Edward Scissorhands

When Kim comes home from a trip with friends she’s expecting to just come home and go to bed. When she gets into her room she starts getting ready for bed. The low key lighting in this scene kind of makes you wonder if how she’s going to react to the person in her bed. Eventually as she looking at herself in the mirror she notices Edward in her bed. She screams in horror and runs out. This happens a few times in Tim Burton’s Edward ScissorHands. Burton mainly uses low key lighting in his movies. For example the when Kim came home the lighting was low key when she entered her room, but when she turned on the light there was high key lighting on her, but still a shadow casting over Edward for the low key lighting. This also happens in “Vincent” it starts out low key lighting then as it goes to a different character the lighting changes to high key. In “Edward Scissorhands” Tim Burton’s mysterious style is conveyed through his lighting differences, and long shots in his movies. …show more content…
This element is used to create a sense of wonder and suspense. It makes you go back and ask yourself “what’s going to happen next,” or “Are they going to be okay? “ This happens when Edward ran away and they can’t find him. Then the camera zooms in on him sitting on the curb. Finally the cop car starts driving up, and Edward starts running away to a house. This adds to the audience’s sense of wondering if Edward is going to be okay. This is similar to Burton’s use of low key lighting in “Vincent” when it transitions from him wanting to be like Vincent Price and him actually being Vincent