Tim Burton

This paper is a deep exploration of the cinematic world, focusing primarily on film directors, their styles and trademarks. This research paper endeavors to give a better understanding of the film world by answering a three part question: How does a film director develop his style and use trademarks to portray or affect viewers to his liking, using tools of film such as music, camera angles, post production, and the like; What are the elements that make up a film director’s style and what makes…

Romanticism was an art movement that originated from the 18th century, starting in the 1750s and lasting until the 1890s. The style was a rejection of classical art and a reaction against neoclassicism, and the main focus of this artistic movement was to convey an emotion through their paintings and literature. They believed in staying true to their emotions and putting it down on paper. It emphasized the individuality of the artist. The artwork from this period of time was full of emotion and…

In Clark and McDonald’s (2010) text, the theme of the fantasy genre is dispelled through an analysis of the “realization” of Ofelia’s experiences in a fantasy world. The article describes the various aspects adult-themed behaviors that are often interjected into Ofelia’s imagination, which makes the fantasy world more like the “real world” in the plot of this film. The depiction of real life as a more dangerous environment is another major problem with the escapist theme of Pan’s Labyrinth.…

Artist Biography: CUL502 Assignment Miley Ray Cyrus born in Franklin Tennessee. The daughter of famous country singer Billy ray Cyrus, started her rise to fame at a young age, appearing in the movie “Big Fish” by Tim Burton. Following that she landed a starring role with the Disney channel network a TV show called Hanna Montana.(Biography) Miley Cyrus is a very successful young woman, who from a young age has caught the media’s attention. In 2004 Miley Cyrus at the age of 13 landing the…

Over the past term and a bit, I feel in general that I have achieved what I was aiming for in concern with creating a halloween container/basket. Starting this assessment with a lot of drawing and sketching and jumbled ideas and designs, I thought that I would be a hard task filled with challenges and difficulties. However it turned out to be the complete opposite. Choosing my final design, which has now been modified and changed, I started the real work. Even though I started this design with…

At the beginning of the film, Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton, the audience is told about a witch residing in the town of Ashton, Alabama. Although the townspeople are fearful of the witch’s powers, they treat the witch as if it were an everyday thing and even ask her to see their own death with her magical…

in the big mansion alone after the death of his inventor. To his luck, an Avon associate named Peg, pays a visit to his home and brings him along with her to join the Boggs’s family. A universal theme developed by Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, is that a person’s differences make them unique in their own ways; this theme is supported by the juxtaposition of Edward’s costume to the neighborhood and the motif of the scissors. The juxtaposition…

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…

Ransom Riggs is the author of the novel, Miss.Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. After researching some background notes it became very interesting to discover that this book is actually a movie in the making being directed by the remarkable Tim Burton in early 2016. This novel is based on a 16 year old boy who goes by the name of Jacob. Jacob faces a horrible tragedy one day when his grandfather suddenly disappears and is actually found deceased. His grandfather was known for being…

Sociological Analysis of The Nightmare Before Christmas The Nightmare Before Christmas, a stop-action animation movie written by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick, is a classic Halloween movie. With Halloween quickly approaching, a sociological analysis of this film seemed particularly appropriate. This film demonstrates many sociological phenomena in our society, but the one that was most prominent was Role Theory. This film shows how society prescribes us roles, and how filling these…