Burton Coliseum

point, including the person who wrote this sentence, as well as the person who is now reading it. One person that has always lived outside of society's standards is Tim Burton. Burton has shown this in innumerable short films and movies through his character in, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and, Alice in Wonderland. Burton exaggerates the characters' identities to suggest that no one person should have to change who they are to conform to society's standards. Colors are used in both…

The cinematographer that I have decided to research is Jeff Cronenweth; he is famous for movies such as Gone Girl, Fight Club, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, and Hitchcock. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and currently resides in California. Jeff Cronenweth is very talented in many ways when it comes to cinematography, his craft and eye for cinematography separates him from the rest. Jeff with many of his movies are one colored, he usually uses green tones…

Tim Burton has been appeasing audiences with his directing tactics for over 30 years. His success roots from the morbid curiosity and raw innocence that we as an audience find in other notable figures like Edgar Allen Poe and Brothers Grimm. His exceptional craft as a director is one that captures us by provoking feelings of sentiment, warmth, and dismay. Burton utilizes techniques such as close-ups, back lighting and tracking to do just that. Burton's use of close-ups focuses on significant…

During the black and white era, the controlled use of contrast and intensity of lighting was a key factor that allowed for depth and even emotion in film. Keating talks in his writing about how Noir helped pioneer the excellent use of lighting to create enriching scenes with high contrast and irregular shapes and patterns. Keating talks about how lighting inside noir films are more low key and deep focus, while in regular studio cinema it tends to be more shallow and high key. Keating goes on to…

This essay is about Tim Burton’s writing style; Tim Burton was influenced by the works of Dr. Seuss, Edgar Allen Poe, and Vincent pride. He worked Poe’s dark nature and ambience into his stories. In many of the things he directed he implanted the rhyming and simplicity of Dr. Seuss's stories. And he looked up to Vincent price for his style. Overall Mr. Burton's work is eerie, dark, and quite haunting for the reader. However he has a faint childlike theme in his works, Such as the work of Disney,…

Timothy Walter Burton more commonly known as Tim burton is a Painter, Screenwriter, Illustrator, Author, Director, and Producer. Born in 1958, in the city of Burbank, California, to parents Jean and Bill Burton. Burton had a painful childhood in which the relationship with his parents and brother was nonexistent. Through his perception of isolation, he began to develop his visual talents. The content Burton found in hobbies such as writing and drawing led him to attend the California Institute…

The film director, Tim Burton, uses several different techniques throughout his films to show his unique sense of style and ideas to compliment his interesting and crazy personality. The stylistic techniques that Burton uses are the music, shots, and lighting to achieve the effects of mood, tone, and a sense of fantasy. First of all, Burton’s use of music, mainly diegetic, in his films help the audience to be engaged and understand the emotions within the characters. For example, in his film…

In all of the tim Burton’s movies(the great director) common cinematic elements are visible. This is what makes Tim Burton's movies so good. Common elements that most of the movie share are shot types, editing, and sound, creating a common feeling throughout the movies. One of the common styles found throughout the movies are shot styles. One of the most noticeable are the the establishing shot. In most of Tim Burton's movies the setting is introduced with an establishing shot that slowly pans…

Tim Burton is an American film director that has created dozens of brilliantly dark movies. Two of his famous movies are Edward Scissorhands in 1990, and Big Fish in 2003. Both of the films use there own stylistics devices, but they create the same effect. Tim Burton uses lighting, framing, and camera movements to make characters look more vulnerable. Tim Burton uses Lighting in Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands to make the characters seem more vulnerable. When Edward Bloom and his friends…

Tim Burton has has made many movies from; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Edward Scissorhands to Corpses Bride. All was different types of movies, some stop animation to normal acting but what they all have in common they have a gothic dark low key lighting combined with non-diegetic music along with various camera angles. Using dark scenes with little lighting dark music and close ups creating a scene full of suspense. To begin Tim Burton uses the close up camera extremely well, an…