Danny Elfman

COMPOSER COMPARISON HANS ZIMMER’S PROFILE

Zimmer was 1st introduced to film music in London during collaboration with Stanley Myers for the film “My Beautiful Laundrette”. He then started working on his own solo projects which became a success, mastering the use of combining old and new musical technologies. He got his 1st break in 1988 when he was asked to score Rain Man for Barry Levinson. This was his 1st film to win an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned him his 1st nomination…

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…

scenes found in the media. A running list of elements are synonymous with a Tim Burton film such as color schemes in a gray-scale, his tendencies toward Johnny Depp and wife Helena Bonham Carter as characters in his films, his workings with composer Danny…

Edward Scissorhands, a film directed by Tim Burton, is a gentle dive into a fantasy world that will leave viewers feeling haunted. Starring Johnny Depp as the scar-covered Edward, and Winona Ryder as the blonde cheerleader who he is immediately drawn to, the film takes viewers alongside Edward as he tries to adapt to a bright, pastel-covered cul-de-sac neighborhood. All 105 minutes of Edward Scissorhands is filled with relatable characters, a lovely musical score, and seamless acting; it is one…

resources on a film that would be too frightening and dark for young audiences. Later, the film Peewee’s Big Adventure, was made on a budget of $18 million and it grossed more than $40 million at the North American box office.Burton asked Danny Elfman to provide music for the film, and he has scored every film that Burton has directed with the exception of: Ed Wood (the falling out they had); Sweeney Todd (music was based on sound stephen sound heims musical); Miss Peregrine's Home for…

Mise-en-scene is used in many ways in the film Edward Scissorhands. The diachronic shot played a significant role during the film, it had a variety of focuses, and point of view. For instance, in the film there are two types of focuses that are often used which are; soft focus and rack focus. Soft focus is used in the film when Peg Bogg opens a canned good, it reflects back to Edward who then has a flashback to a bad memory of a machine that makes cookies. This scene relates back to the subtext…

By claiming Tim Burton as an auteur would be suggesting the director would be the primary creative force within the process of making a feature film. Which starts to reveal the essence of the creative process and who in fact is the primary role within creating the film, or if that role even exists. “Two very different challenges have been offered to the exclusive emphasis on the auteur : first, that other facets of film language and method are more responsible for a film’s ultimate success than…

James Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The…

Film music is used to accompany the story line of a film and helps to create the world of the film in a sonic sense that will affect the viewer subconsciously. It is a defining element in the ambience of a film’s atmosphere, capable of turning a situation from sedentary to tense in a single chord change. It provides a sonic narrative of the plot development, normally moving to different themes and suites for different scenes. People can hear a melody or a movement from their favourite film and…

The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom starring the animated Simpson family, which was created by Matt Groening. He conceived of the characters in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office and named them after his own family members, substituting "Bart" for his own name. The family debuted as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show called The Simpsons, which debuted on December 17, 1989.…