WEEK 3 Tim Burton
Tim Burtons Visual Style is usually an unusual and gothic kind of approach, using "black and White" to his advantage eg, Corpes Bride has greys, blacks, whites and blues in the living world and in the dead world, even though he's using more posotive colors, he still keeps it dark whilst using green, purple, and tints of yellows, In Nightmare Before Christmas he does this same thing. In Edward Scissorhands he keeps the dark gothic feel to the film as he does in his animations, he still using the same kind of color tones to go with the feel of the film, same with Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow, Sweedney Todd and his make of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, despite the fact it's supposed to be a happier kind of film, yet the gothic, dark kind of look pulls the film off well.
The shots that Burton usually uses are distanced shots and medium long shots, he also likes to have the camera circulate its focus and break the 180 degree rule, he also likes to twist his camera around, an example of this is shown in this clip form the begining of Nightmare Before Christmas
His editing techniques are usually fades as seen in this clip from Corpse Bride
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Inside the factory it has a strange and mysterious, yet wonderfull layout!
Charlie's house is one, but it also has the curvey and swirly thing going on
and it's also shown alot in his shots aswell, as you can see here.
Sleepy Hollow
The tree that the headless huntsman comes from everynight has the dark gothic theme as well as an eerie, mysterious look, along with his trademark of the curvey and crooked things
the items are also strange, like this magnifying glass/benocular type object (Johnny Depp as IchaboCrane)
and again in this one with the curveyness and swirly crookedness!
Edward Scissorhands
In this film Johnny Depp is starring as Edward, a mysterious character with scissors for hands, it goes through his struggles and his possitive and negative points.
the strangness is more visable in this film with the gothic look still being part of the film, and you can still see the curvey/bendyness in it.
this is edward sat in the dark mantion where he was created, you can see strange objects in this shot.
Alice In Wonderland
In Alice in Wonderland, he has captured the the gothic and strange look really well and managed to link it in with the film sucessfully!
he's put the curls and bends in the scenes again as you can see...
and the Mad Hatter is played by Johnny Depp, notice a consistencey?
Burton usually takes role of being a writer and a producer for films he directs, he has produced Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands and he has written the Corpse Bride (Characters), The Nightmare Before Christmas (Story and Characters) and Edward Scissorhands (Story).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/
(Evidence)
The people that work with Tim Burton regurlary in his films are actors, Johnny Depp, Helenna Bonham Carter and Christopher Lee.
Tim Burton grew up watching old films and drawing cartoons, he was fond of films that had Vincent Price in them I pressume this may have been a majour influence considering he went on to make a film called "Vincent" in1982, which was about a boy who wanted to grow up to be just like Vincent Price.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/bio
(Evidence)
Most of his films contain the same theme, no-matter how different they are to one another,
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
the gothic theme flows through the film, and Willie Wonka (Johnny Depp) has a dark and gothic yet extremley strange appearance all in one as does the other locations
and it's also shown alot in his shots aswell, as you can see here.
Sleepy Hollow
Edward Scissorhands
this is edward sat in the dark mantion where he was created, you can see strange objects in this shot.
Alice In Wonderland
and the Mad Hatter is played by Johnny Depp, notice a consistencey?
Burton usually takes role of being a writer and a producer for films he directs, he has produced Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands and he has written the Corpse Bride (Characters), The Nightmare Before Christmas (Story and Characters) and Edward Scissorhands (Story).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/
(Evidence)
The people that work with Tim Burton regurlary in his films are actors, Johnny Depp, Helenna Bonham Carter and Christopher Lee.
Tim Burton grew up watching old films and drawing cartoons, he was fond of films that had Vincent Price in them I pressume this may have been a majour influence considering he went on to make a film called "Vincent" in1982, which was about a boy who wanted to grow up to be just like Vincent Price.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/bio
(Evidence)
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