![]() ![]() Tim Burton proved that you can have action and drama, without giving the audience seizures with over-the-top action sequences and moving the camera all over the place trying to experience an explosion. ![]() He is being heavily bombarded by artillery, but the camera angle barely changes perspective, keeping you planted in the scene, not able to escape, much like Jack. The scene where Jack is under attack by the army after he had been impersonating Santa Claus is a brilliant example of this technique. The tedious work of making a scene may have inadvertently added to the movie’s artistic style because each scene made you stay with the character, which helps immersion. Something is captured in these moments that real life motion cannot naturally achieve. With Claymation, comes the painstaking task of forming minute changes in the figures position in order to make a scene. The final scene is a great example of these diminutive changes in posture adding to the drama of the movie. Watching Jack and Sally come together, they appear to “skate” across the scene in each other’s arms. Every scene where a character is walking across the backdrop, is like watching a dancer gracefully move across the stage or an ice skater perfectly in sync with the music. These minute changes make the characters move just slightly slower than they would in real-time or when digitally animated, meaning a raising of the hand or turning of the head, are much more dramatic. The idea of using a stop motion technique with clay figurines, or Claymation, was not a new idea, but for a full-length feature film it would be considered extremely tedious and troublesome. Instead of following the traditional Disney trend by simply making another animated film, he decided to take a chance with an art form that wasn’t proven on the large screen. Tim Burton: The Real ARTful Dodger Selick and Burton on the set of Nightmare Before Christmas.Īn important element of the movie comes from the artistic approach Tim Burton decided to go with regarding visualizing the script. He used a visually impressive art-form that changed how characters interacted with each other, effecting the flow and sight of the movie coupled with original music scores and a unique dialogue experience. In Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas, this union between sight and sound in film became ever more prolific. Sight is not just the movement on screen, rather movement in connection with the other characters and, more importantly, the viewer. Sound is not limited to the static dialogue, but more about how the dialogue influences the characters and the scene. The inescapable marriage of sight and sound is what makes a movie great, versus being another average film amongst the many. ![]() The Nightmare Before Christmas: Why Being Unique in Hollywood Still Matters The Nightmare before Christmas, Tim Burton (1993) ![]()
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