My Storyboard

Quickly just want to apologize for the quality, also for shot #2 Talking about the Music/Sound it’s a hard to see so I’ll repeat it here. Music/sound: When Edward slices the leg off of the topiary the brass and percussion instruments crash to give more of an effect.  

Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses a really interesting type of lighting in this scene, where the sky may be black but the lighting around Edward is still bright as day. And from what I took from that was that even though it’s night Edward is surrounded by a lot of light, it shows he’s not a villain, he’s just conflicted and he’s been holding in so much anger because the people around him even though he’s been kind to them they’ve been treating him like a tool with no emotions. In my storyboard I mentioned how I made the sky black but kept the lighting to day, in shot #4 I turned the lamppost on but it didn’t do very much because you could still see everything as clear as day hehe. The only shot where it was night was shot #3 where I had to make the outside dark because that’s how Helen was in the movie but I made the walls on the inside white to make her house a little brighter looking on the inside. I feel as if this makes Edwards rampage a little more justifiable as the townsfolk take what Edward gave them for granted.

My graphic novel adaptation really taught me how much symbolism can be put into a movie, and I never watched Edward Scissorhands before this and I thought it was a simple kids movie (Which it’s not) but it’s crazy how much planning was put into this movie. Never did I think while watching Edward Scissorhands I’d take the lighting as a form of symbolism, at least that’s how I felt on my first viewing of the movie.