Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

makes spectacular and entertaining movies that generally please everyone. Each one has a lesson, morality, and a message.This is why he is so recognized, his uses of cinematic techniques take us on a psychological journey. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward ScissorHands and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton uses color and lighting in order to project isolation and to communicate a theme of separation from society and the real world. Burton uses a whole arsenal of cinematic…

Tim Burton, a director for many movies. Movies such as Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. These are movies that will be us in this essay. Burton has many crazy characters. Characters that are shy, dark, crazy, and a little creepy. Some characters that he created are Edward, Mr. Wonka, and Beetlejuice. Burton’s dark style is best conveyed through his use of color, zooming, and music. One defining characteristic of Burton’s style is his use of color to devolve…

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me” - Tim Burton. In Tim Burton’s films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edwards Scissorhands, and Alice in Wonderland he uses low key lighting, high key lighting, and non-diegetic sounds to create suspense and suspicion, bright and open looking scenes, and happy or spooky moods. For people to feel the suspense and suspicion in the movies, Tim Burton uses low key lighting in the scenes to create a spooky mood. For example, In the…

perspective of how it would feel or the experience through the characters as they traveled through the world of Tim Burton. He has expressed himself through The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland and many others. Through the film techniques Burton choose, he has revealed his fantasies and film expertise. The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride were both claymation masterpieces by Burton.…

sad, or unhappy. One example of this is in the movie “Charlie and Chocolate Factory”. In this movie they used a sad, slow music/sound when they show Charlie’s house and his family squished in the small wood house. This shows a sad mood and tone of the movie. Another example is also from the same movie when they are…

the beginning of the movie with Peg and Edward. He uses music and sound effects to change the setting of a cheery and happy neighborhood to the dark and gloomy castle on the top of the hill. Also, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there was the scene in the beginning of the movie showing Charlie Bucket’s house. By using a mix of orchestra and Christmas theme genre Burton achieves a cheery though gloomy feeling while watching the movie. Finally, during Big Fish, there were Dad’s past as a…

his movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when it's Charlie's birthday and everyone is gathered around in the small dark house and there is only some lighting on there faces. The low key lighting in this shot shows that they are poor and only can have so much.…

films. Such as in Big Fish when the father was telling stories to his son there was always different types of music and sound that went along with the feel of that exact story. An example of diegetic sound is in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory when everyone was standing by the chocolate river and the the oompa loompas started to sing their song, everytime a child misbehaved the oompa loompas would sing a song about the that certain child. That is diegetic because the characters can actually…

a disturbing side, and have an adventure to take on that isn't necessarily possible in reality. Tim Burton is commonly known for his films “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Big Fish”, and “Edward Scissorhands”. Tim Burton manipulates shots and framing to create a mood of suspense and mysteries. For example, in the film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Tim Burton used a close-up in the scene when Willy Wonka put golden tickets on candy that are to be wrapped. The technique is appropriate…

images and music grant the sense that something is awry. Something has happened and now the inventor is dead. The music provides a heads up that there is a problem of some kind. Burton also utilizes diegetic sound to create mood. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” the Oompa-Lumpas sing every time a rotten child is taken away. This is an extraordinary way to tell the viewer that something is astray with the child. It makes somewhat lifeless facts appear to be interesting. Sound is a…