Edward Scissorhands

before finishing him up, and Edward’s hand remained to be made out of scissors. One day, a local saleswoman called Peg visited his castle and invited him to her home. Peg’s family welcomed Edward and became good friends of him. Peg’s neighbors got impressed on Edward’s skill to trim a yard and do hair make-ups, and Edward started a business. His repetition increased in the U.S. and he started to appear on TVs. While gaining fame as a new creature, he falls in love with Peg’s beautiful daughter,…

“One person's craziness is another person's reality”-Tim Burton. All of his movies has some kind of outcome to the audience to make the stories amazing. Burton uses low key lighting and nondiegetic sound in order to create a feeling of reclusiveness from the main characters to the society in his viewers; this is important because Burton wants us to visualize that even when you are very isolated from everyone else, you can still have a joyous life to get other people to like you. In many of his…

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…

Lots of people have been enjoying the movies where the Pirates of the Caribbean run wild. The most famous of the pirates is portrayed by Johnny Depp. The movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” first opened up in theaters in the U.S. on July 7, 2006. It starred Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. This was the second movie in the pirate adventure series. It is part of a multi-billion dollar franchise owned by Disney and it includes books, video games and theme park rides.…

that grants a pass the visit Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. When Charlie visit his ‌ world changes. Tim Burton uses lighting, sound, and camera movements to depict unique cinematic experiences creating tone and mood. In his movies such as “Edward Scissorhands” and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” he uses various techniques to demonstrate sinister moods and tones. The tones of his movie are dark from his childhood experience and uses lighting, sound, and camera movements to depict a unique…

Burton’s first big budget film was Batman which became one of the highest income productions of all time. His films focus on a main character who is an outcast in society, they are strange, misunderstood and eccentric characters like Batman and Edward Scissorhands. He does this because that’s how he felt growing up. He so aptly states, “one person’s craziness is another person’s reality”. It is obvious you watching a Tim Burton inspired movie because he makes use of film techniques that are a…

it to their lifestyle. Some might even overlook it and not even notice it around them. For example, Tim Burton is a very famous name in the movie making industry, many of his movies are very popular including: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice. Tim Burton film style is Gothic his movies include a dark/gloomy tone that has some horror elements to it with otherworldly creatures and most of society loves it. Beetlejuice’s main character Lydia Deetz, played by…

Lighting is a technique that director Tim Burton uses to create the perfect mood for a particular scene in many of his well known movies. An example is when low-key lighting is used to fill the screen with darkness. Just barely any light left in the movie, which can give the sense danger and fear throughout the scene of the movie. In contrast high-key lighting is used to do the opposite of low-key lighting. It’s used to fill the screen with brightness, which can give the scene a sense of…

To illustrate, in his film Edward Scissorhands, while Peg applies makeup to Edward’s face, gentle back lighting is used when focusing on his face. This plays into to Edward’s character as a bewildered, helpless boy. The light is soft behind him and creates a subtle halo effect, making us…

uncanny sense in movie productions. Tim Burton imposes his own beliefs into his work which is what makes his creations so unique. Timothy Walter Burton also known, as “Tim” is a well-known director who has produced films such as Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Batman Returns (1992). Influenced by Vincent Leonard Price Jr., Tim Burton followed his heart and graduated from California Institute of Arts with a major in animation, even…