Tim Burton's Use Of Carnival In Beetlejuice

Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul by Roger D. Abrahams is a book about the upbringing of the New Orleans Mardi Gras carnival. This is one the most famous carnivals held in New Orleans. The festival Mardi Gras “Fat Tuesday” incorporates “such events as costumed float parades, neighborhood marches or second-lines, street gatherings, informal parties, and formal balls in New Orleans, Biloxi, and Mobile, among other Gulf Coast cities and towns.” (1) The author, Roger D. Abrahams throughout his book, speaks of the carnival from all differ perspectives and compares it to other countries held around the world. He also addresses, how before Hurricane Katrina and afterwards, the Mardi Gras festival and the culture/ tradition

Tim Burton has directed movies like Charlie and the chocolate factory, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and many more. He is known for his unique style which is dark humor. He uses many techniques to create different moods or feelings you wouldn't usually feel .Tim Burton uses flashback, shot'reverse'shot, and camera movements to create different types of mood.

In Miner’s essay “The Body Rituals of the Nacirema”, he talks about American Society and their obsession with cleanliness and the up keeping of the human body. That people would go so far as to participate in things they do not like or find uncomfortable to preserve this custom. He speaks from the point of view of an outsider who has never heard of the name Nacirema, and because of this, his readers are able to reflect on the rituals they do every day and yet have never thought of as unusual.

Tim Burton is known as a director for creating films that have creepy elements to them. For example, in most of Burton’s films, such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Corpse Bride, the main character is a young man with a child like voice and a fair complexion. Tim Burton uses cinematic elements to create the mood sadness by making the viewer feel empathy for the characters. Burton’s use of short types is indicative to his film style because these shots types fit his style by making the audience feel sorry for the characters. In Burton's film Edward Scissorhands, a retelling of Pinocchio but a robot with scissors for hands, Peg, A door to door saleswoman, and her neighbor Helen are having a conversation in the form of a

Director Tim Burton is brashly thought of as having a dark, macabre, and humorous style in his films. This being true, there is a multitude of ways that the style is created for the audience. Furthermore, Burton’s cinematic technique usage is a direct mark of creative exposure of this dark style throughout the duration of a film’s story. Director Tim Burton uses diverse cinematic techniques to create a variety of effects that represent his style of grim childlike misfortune, tampered by opulent optimism.

Strange, grim, and unlikely is what most people would describe Tim Burton’s style of writing and his movies. Tim Burton grew up fascinated with fairy tales and the supernatural. He presents a darker version of children stories. He has written books such as “James and the Giant Peach” that were a hit but he also makes movies which use a variety of cinematic techniques in every movie. Tim Burton effectively uses variety of cinematic techniques to evoke emotion in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands.

It was a normal day. One couple decided to take a drive. The husband decided that he needed something from a tool shop. That was the day they had made the worst and best decision of their life. Everything was going great, until they drove on a bridge.

Throughout Burton’s films, one simple thought is true in all of them. From Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to Alice in Wonderland, Burton emphasizes that “Visions are worth fighting for. Why (should you ) spend your life making someone else's dreams?” Deviating from the predestined path created for the main characters emulates Frida Kahlo’s “Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States ” The majority of Burton’s characters find themselves on a line between the path and visions that society and their family has carved out for them, and the path and visons that are worth fighting for . Burton incorporates contrasting settings and strained family relationships in his films to promote the idea that young people truly find themselves only when they deviate from the path that society has carved for them.

He breaks the rule of using only one point of view without clear transitioning. The radical contrast in his settings is also an example of how he uses unexpected techniques in his films. His use of reoccurring motifs, either subliminal or relevant to the story itself, is another example of how his unorthodox techniques are so effective. Because of these techniques, audiences know what to expect from a Tim Burton movie—a masterpiece. Burton’s films show the viewers a glimpse of who he is by acknowledging the weirdness of his characters; even the strangest of characters are and can still be human. It is not the witty lines or the dark comedy of it all that makes his films memorable but the fact that he shares his soul, his personal imaginative mind with the rest of the world. Burton’s films are like a time capsule of his life; they define his life. Every generation needs someone to lead the weirdly eccentric… misfits of society. The 1960’s had Andy Warhol and this generation has Tim

First of all, Poe sets a perfect environmental setting for a story. In the beginning, the action is illustrated happening in a cold night, during the carnival season. The time period itself creates a certain impression of emerging darkness, and the use of carnival strengthens the impression as well: "It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend" (pg 124, pr 5). In this quote author emphasizes the supreme madness of the carnival, which can be collated with narrators madness. Furthermore, the following setting of the story also considerably affects the mood. Catacomb symbolizes death. It represents the place for burial, so when narrator leads Fortunato to the catacomb, the mood

Do you know what makes you different? Tim Burton does and has a unique way of showing it. Through his films, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands. Which he has managed to enhance by using these two specific cinematic techniques. Lighting and sound are the two factors that contribute you into feeling a desired way. These techniques manipulate you to either feel sad, happy, or even excited during the film.

Different from being creepy Tim Burton us different film technique to make the scenes look happy. One film technique that Mr Burton use was fading.Fade is Where it Makes the scene brighter and happier. In the Charlie in the chocolate factory it goes from being all bright with happy when the kids who got the golden tickets go into the room where it is all full of chocolate and they can eat whatever they want.

Tim Burton is one of the most unusual and unique directors of our time. He brings characters to life by putting them in a habitat they don’t belong. His movies “Alice in Wonderland”, “The Corpse Bride”, “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, and “Edward Scissorhands” all demonstrate how one of a kind his movies are. Using cinematic techniques, Tim Burton points out the misfit character and shows how different they are then everyone else. His use of camera angles, lighting, and sound give the viewers a different perspective on the movies, and help pick out the individual character.

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.

Horror is designed to scare, cause alarm and dread, while also entertaining the audience at the same time in a cathartic experience (Dirk, 2016). Horror films are meant for a specific type of audience that enjoy scary films. Dirks (Tim, 2016) approach to genre horror, is that films went back as 100 years ago, from the earliest days our vivid imagination in seeing ghosts in the shadows to be connected emotionally of the unknown, and fear things that are improbable. You watch a horror film, it makes you aware of the scary surroundings, the essence of fear itself, without actually being in any sorts of danger. Dirks argues that there is a fun and thrill factor in being frightened, or watching something disturbing. It gives you that feeling of an adrenaline rush, as well as having that feeling someone is actually next to you lurking in the dark (Dirk, 2016).