TIM BURTON

By Brooke

WHO IS TIM BURTON

Tim Burton is an American film director best

known for films such as Nightmare before

Christmas, Edward scissorhands, The Corpse bride

and more recent films such as Frankenweenie and

Dark Shadows he is extremely well known for

combining styles such as gothic fiction and fantasy

which has know formed in to his own style.

WHAT IS THE TIM BURTON STYLE?

Tim Burtons characters all have the same creepy

style which is very individual to Tim Burton the way

in which he creates these characters is started of

with a sketch. This will then either turn into his stop

motion characters or he will translate them onto a

human canvas.

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic dark fantasy

film. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward, an

unfinished creation who has scissors for hands. Edward is taken in

by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter

Kim. This particular film is known as Burton and Elfmans most

personal and favourite work, it was Burtons fourth film were he

both directed and produced it along side Danny Elfman who did the

music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PubEgTsP-Kc

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Nightmare before Christmas is an 1993 American stop motion

musical fantasy directed by Henry selick and produced/co-

written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a

being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to "Christmas

Town" and decides to celebrate the holiday, with some dastardly

and comical consequences. This film is extremely well known

for being Tim Burtons first stop motion classic were he hand

crafted many dolls and had seven different scenes working at

once .

BEETLEJIUCE

One of Burtons most well known classics the plot revolves

around a recently deceased young couple who become ghosts

haunting their former home and an obnoxious, devious ghost

named Beetlejuice from the Netherworld who tries to scare away

the new inhabitants permanently. Beetlejuice was a financial and

critical success, grossing $73.7 million from a budget of $15

million. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and three

Saturn Awards: Saturn Award for Best Film and Best makeup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hovKm9oFiM

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Alice in wonderland being one of Burtons more recent

films is now widely renowned for its exquisite animation for

characters such as the red queen, the mad hatter and the

most impressive one the huntsmen, where he animated the

whole of the huntsmens body and had no costume to work

with. This also translated into the setting how everythings

very much like Tim Burtons artwork and that was all done

through animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9POCgSRVvf0

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