Tiny Tim

During the black and white era, the controlled use of contrast and intensity of lighting was a key factor that allowed for depth and even emotion in film. Keating talks in his writing about how Noir helped pioneer the excellent use of lighting to create enriching scenes with high contrast and irregular shapes and patterns. Keating talks about how lighting inside noir films are more low key and deep focus, while in regular studio cinema it tends to be more shallow and high key. Keating goes on to…

This essay is about Tim Burton’s writing style; Tim Burton was influenced by the works of Dr. Seuss, Edgar Allen Poe, and Vincent pride. He worked Poe’s dark nature and ambience into his stories. In many of the things he directed he implanted the rhyming and simplicity of Dr. Seuss's stories. And he looked up to Vincent price for his style. Overall Mr. Burton's work is eerie, dark, and quite haunting for the reader. However he has a faint childlike theme in his works, Such as the work of Disney,…

Timothy Walter Burton more commonly known as Tim burton is a Painter, Screenwriter, Illustrator, Author, Director, and Producer. Born in 1958, in the city of Burbank, California, to parents Jean and Bill Burton. Burton had a painful childhood in which the relationship with his parents and brother was nonexistent. Through his perception of isolation, he began to develop his visual talents. The content Burton found in hobbies such as writing and drawing led him to attend the California Institute…

Pride is one of the few words in the English language that everybody can identify with. Pride is actually a good thing to have because if a person has pride in what he does it makes him do it better. If a person is working a job and has pride in what he does, he tends to put forth his best effort and try to become the best employee he can. Pride is a thing that can cause people to feel a sense of satisfaction even if they fail. As long as they give their best, they are satisfied. But as the…

The film director, Tim Burton, uses several different techniques throughout his films to show his unique sense of style and ideas to compliment his interesting and crazy personality. The stylistic techniques that Burton uses are the music, shots, and lighting to achieve the effects of mood, tone, and a sense of fantasy. First of all, Burton’s use of music, mainly diegetic, in his films help the audience to be engaged and understand the emotions within the characters. For example, in his film…

The film The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont tells the viewers about a banker, Andy Dufresne, who is convicted of killing his wife and her secret lover and begins his life sentence in the Shawshank Prison. Andy Dufresne soon becomes an inspiration and encouragement to the other prisoners with his invulnerable approach and respect from the guards due to his role to launder money for the Warden. The Shawshank Redemption revealed to me about hope. The inmates live surrounded around hope,…

“Make it work,” exclaims Tim Gunn, host of the hit show Project Runway, while designers scramble to reassemble a runway ready look worthy enough to display before the prestigious judges. I have never experienced the situation of completing a perfect ensemble in less than twenty four hours, but I have felt the pressure of starting from scratch with very little time to “make it work.” Last February, after precisely planning my track training regimen, I injured my leg. Indoor track season was fast…

In all of the tim Burton’s movies(the great director) common cinematic elements are visible. This is what makes Tim Burton's movies so good. Common elements that most of the movie share are shot types, editing, and sound, creating a common feeling throughout the movies. One of the common styles found throughout the movies are shot styles. One of the most noticeable are the the establishing shot. In most of Tim Burton's movies the setting is introduced with an establishing shot that slowly pans…

with a person from a book? Well I have, and I figured out I have the same characteristics as Tim Tebow. Even though we have some differences, we have a lot in common. We are seventy-three percent in common. Tim Tebow and I have several similar qualities, I have only chosen three aspects. Tim Tebow and I are athletic, christian, and intelligent. To start, Mr. Tebow and I are both extremely athletic. Tim played football, basketball, and baseball in high school. I play football, basketball,…

Tim Burton is an American film director that has created dozens of brilliantly dark movies. Two of his famous movies are Edward Scissorhands in 1990, and Big Fish in 2003. Both of the films use there own stylistics devices, but they create the same effect. Tim Burton uses lighting, framing, and camera movements to make characters look more vulnerable. Tim Burton uses Lighting in Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands to make the characters seem more vulnerable. When Edward Bloom and his friends…