Edward Scissorhands

The unique use of colour in the movie adds to the different emotions that you feel in each of the different worlds. Colour helps create the interest when the grandmother is beginning her story about the snow. She is wearing a bright red outfit and the girl is in a bed and a room that is very decorative, but with still normal and neutral colours. I think this sets the mood of a fairytale. We move from a world where colours seem normal into a world where the colours become very bright. In this second world the colours give you the feeling of safety and normalcy. The houses are bright, the outfits are bright, and everything is uniform which gives off a feeling of peace and a structured environment. The third world, Edward's mansion, is dark in colour along with his outfit, which is a direct contrast to the town below. At this point you can get the feeling of good and evil although there is a twist because the dark is actually not evil at all. It plays with those emotions. As the story progresses you start to feel that the nice colourful neighbourhood is actually the bad and corrupt. Another use of colour that brings all the emotions throughout the movie to the forefront is at the very end when he is walking through his garden dressed in black and it is dark but the grass and flowers are still bright and he feels comfortable.
The lighting used at the very beginning of the movie also helps give the feeling of a fairytale. The cash shadows that are produced both by the single lamp and the fire bring a feeling of comfort and rest. This helps because as the grandmother is speaking you can feel like you are being taken into a fairytale. The lighting and shadows along with her voice are the perfect combination to begin a story and give the viewers the right feelings and emotions. Also, the lighting ads the emotion of fear for Edward and suspense at the end where they are in the mansion fighting. It is dark with light coming through the broken roof as well as light from the gunshot. All of this keeps the viewer in suspense and locked onto the screen.

The overall soundtrack to the movie helps create the feelings I believe the director was hoping for throughout each scene of the movie. One specific scene is where he pushes Kevin out of the way of the van. You can feel the tension building and a turning point coming with the music as the notes are long and deep and also give a feeling of sadness as you see Edward's decline in the neighbourhood. Also the sound of his scissors both give emotions of happiness and fear depending on when we hear them. When he is cutting bushes or hair we feel happy for him, but as he cuts Kevin you hate that sound and wish it to stop.