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
THE END
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