Tim Burton is one of the greatest film directors who created suspenseful yet exciting acts. Burton was able to create different feelings and emotions towards the audience which changed their thoughts of what's happening in the film. He developed a variety of moods and sense of humor in his acts to make his audience interested. Tim Burton is a director who created and used ironic techniques in his films with camera angles, imagery, shots and framing, and camera movies.

Tim Burton included shots and framing in his work as one of his unique techniques. For example in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory: Four Lucky Winners, he used close-ups on the focus point and other shots taken by the camera people trying to take pictures of the familys. The boy was the focus point because he was one of the kids who had a golden ticket. The family had some close-ups but mostly medium shots to get the main focus point in the image as well. The main attention however was based on who was talking and where the camera was staying. This style helped give the idea that the boy was the the main important character at that particular clip. Burton also included medium and long shots so that the audience can see almost to everything in a specific scene. Shots and frames is one of the most used styles in his films.

Burton also uses camera angles to expose the setting and characters of the scenes. For example in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Up and Out, when Charlie, the boy that was the winner and the old man came together, the camera’s eye angle became very low. They entered an elevator first with the angle being low to show the appearance of the elevator while exxagerating their height. When they launched into the air the angle became very high showing how high they were in the sky. This also let the audience see what they saw from above on their short travel. Since he was using this technique it let his audience get a feeling of what was actually going on. The sight could clearly be seen from a certain point of view with a high or low eye perspective depending on what was supposed to be seen. This technique expressed emphasis which made some objects bigger than the others. For example when they were still in the sky on the elevator, the other people walking out of the factory seemed smaller because the perspective had an high angle, but when it was low on the characters they seemed to be a more scaled size for a real person. Eye angles was one other technique he used in his work to show a camera angle.

Another technique used in Burton’s films is camera movements. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Up and Out, the camera was tilting as Charlie, the boy and old man shot into the air in the elevator. There was an upwards type point of view as they began to higher then the camera began panning them as they went fowards. When they looked down at the other characters walking the angle went downwards again. As the people were walking by the camera focused on them so that the audience could get a full view of them. With this technique the audience was able to tell what to focus on when the camera angle changed to another point. The movements emphasized the main view of that specific act. There were a variety of characters that got attention but with the movements it made that specific person or object more important at the time. This style was used so that the viewers could tell what’s the main idea or focs point in a particular scene. The movements exposed the important points that was meant to be expressed or shared with the audience.

Based on Tim Burton’s movie Charlie and the chocolate Factory, his film techniques created a unique style of  performance. He used shots and frames, camera movements, camera angles, and imagery as his style of filming. His style changed the way his audience look at his movies in many parts of it. Burton was able to make his viewers change emotions within the actions that was happening. These techniques made his film quality different so that it can express the moods and feelings of the characters and other important aspects of the movies.

Works Cited
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Directed by Tim Burton, 2005.