Monday 29 December 2008

Tim Burton

Tim Burton communicates a dreamy surrealistic mood in his movies, often with an aura of the macabre. I am particularly interested in his sepia tones and what he hopes to communicate with this effect. In an interview about Sleepy Hollow, this effect was described as “somewhere between black and white and colour” states Mark Kermode (The Guardian. Jan 6th, 2000). Burton used a “slight bleaching process to the film” to get this effect but did not give a term for the look.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)


The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)


Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Sweeny Todd was descibed as "sepia toned gothicness" by Paul Branfield (Los Angeles Times. Nov 25, 2007).



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