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    Saint Nicholas gives kids joy and excitement when he brings them goodies like candy and small toys. There has been history about Saint Nicholas since the third century. Activities were played with kids, young adults, parents, even grandparents. Saint Nicholas was a generous man who was nice to kids and gave coal to the naughty kids. The activities people played on Saint Nicholas day are games that are creative and fun. One game that they play is money bag. Money bag is when you fill each bag…

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    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…

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    Tim Burton is a film director who has many popular movies like Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, and Big Fish. He's able to alter his filming techniques to make his films interesting. His movies are so dark, yet at the same time so colorful. Burton uses camera angles, lighting, and sound to bring the eyes of the person watching towards the screen.. Burton can change up the camera angles, when Peg went in Edwards home, the director used high angles to give Peg the…

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    style, which you can easily identify in any of his films. The style is portrayed in films such as Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Through the use of lighting and camera angles, Burton gives a message of hope to these outcasts by portraying that they should be appreciated and not ignored for their creative efforts and views of the world. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton uses high angles to help identify Mr. Willy Wonka as the misfit. When using a high…

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    Movies can be inspired by inspirational, horrifying and comical real life events, and no one can combine the elements of distorted humor, fantasy and tragedy in movies better than producer, director and screenwriter Tim Burton. Tim Burton is known for dozens of films such as the acclaimed dark romantic fantasy film, Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1987), Batman (1989) just to name a few. Growing up, Tim Burton felt different from other kids so art became his escape, drawing characters…

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    Twenty-one wins and sixty-three nominations. That’s the total amount of awards accomplished film director and producer Tim Burton has won. Tim Burton uses a wide variety of cinematic elements in his movies. These cinematic elements range from how bright the light is, to the angle of the camera. Though, the cinematic elements he uses always comes together to make his movies great. Tim Burton uses various cinematic techniques to show his style in his movies. Everyone that has watched a Tim Burton…

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    to represent certain points in his 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…

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    argue that this reflects Burton himself. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissor Hands directed by Tim Burton, the use of a wishful protagonist and exaggerated characters conveys that no one should change who you are to meet society 's expectations. In Burton’s films, he uses a wishful protagonist to show that even though the character is a social outcast, they won’t change the way they are and what they believe…

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    Feeling as though you don’t belong in an a certain place or that everyone is staring at you as though you have done something wrong, but really you’re just being yourself. This is something Tim Burton knows all too well on how to portray in his films. Burton has a way of giving off a pitiful, scared, or uneasy feeling toward a character that will later on be the “good guy.” Burton has always had a love for childlike stories and films, and now in almost all of his movies a child, teen, or someone…

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    Renowned for his ongoing series “Salad Fingers”, David Firth delivers yet another mind-twisting short film, “Cream.” The majority of the film is written, acted, and animated by the talent of Firth himself. However, for this project he is joined by musician Steven Ellison, whose artist name is Flying Lotus. Ellison contributed parts of the soundtrack and a few lines of background characters. This partnership yielded a nightmarish yet mesmerizing product that is sure to send viewers on a…

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