Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques Analysis

Tim Burton and his innocent dark effect on cinematic techniques are what makes him stand out in the directing world. The way he manipulates the cinematic techniques help him control the audience's thoughts, emotions and feelings about the story and the stories characters. The cinematic techniques he manipulates are music and sound, framing and angles, and lighting. Those are the few that stick out the most which are what he uses to control the mood and tone of the story. To begin, Tim Burton manipulates music and sound to help create the mood of each of his films. This helps the audience have a deeper understanding of the characters feelings and emotions. Danny Elfman helps Tim Burton create many songs for his films. For example in the movie Edward Scissorhands, the song Ice Dance by Danny Elfman is played when Edward is cutting ice and Kim dances in the ice shavings. This song helps reveal Kims love for Edward. This helps again with creating a deeper …show more content…
This helps show more detail, background, and reveal feelings from the characters. The framing and angle technique Tim Burton uses frequent is a long-shot. For example in the movie Edward Scissorhands, the beginning shows the neighborhood and is shown by using a long-shot. They do this because they want to show you that the neighborhood is portrayed as being nice and neat people. Also to show that they are some type of utopian society. This is supposed to make the audience feel a certain way towards the story and the characters in the neighborhood. Another example is in the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton uses a high and a low angle to show Charlie staring up at the factory. While the high angle is on Charlie and the low angle is on the factory this makes Charlie look weak, delicate and insignificant especially when he is comparing something so small and something so