Title of the Research Work:
Tim Burton, “movie life.”
Student:Barrios Gutiérrez Karen Michelle
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Escuela Nacional Preparatoria número 1 “Gabino Barreda”
Title: Tim Burton, “movie life.”
Author: Barrios Gutiérrez Karen Michelle
Group: 413
Asesor: Marsella Robles
School: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Escuela Nacional Preparatoria numero 1 “Gabino Barreda”
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Tim Burton as a writer, drawer, producer of films, and a curious man which sees the world by his own bizarre style, this man for me, and I hope to you readers, he has something to bring us, to make us think about the deepness on a film, a world full of distortional beauty, not ugly, but scary, not disgusting, but hilarious or with a sense of innocence behind paleness and strange suits, and the perfection is the evil mask that lies pretending to be good, or only pale characters who grow by mistakes of their ambitions. What I want you to understand is the importance of Tim Burton's work on movie advances in our century XXI.
Obviously I found out the techniques used on his animations, and live action films, how Burton works with all the production, music, special effects, the cast of actors, and so on. I want you to get an idea of cinematography by eyes of this producer and probably get inspired in a way that will fulfill your life. What I researched is the surrealism of his stories, how they developed until the message is done at the end of his movies, I researched the meaning that Tim gave to films. I did my investigation watching Tim Burton's films; ("The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Corpse Bride", "Frankenweenie", "Beetlejuice", "Mars Attacks!", "Sweeney Todd", "Sleepy Hollow", "The Planet Of The Apes", The Tragically Death Of The Oyster Kid", "Vincent Price", between others…), and searching in many internet pages about his filmography and biography, as you'll read my report you'll see the pages that I consulted.I analyzed by watching and reading about
I searched in magazines, articles, and I found out about The Corpse Bride and the Nightmare Before Christmas, I will show you the first stair to animation work in Tim’s life, Disney, I will expose you three renamed collaborators, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and the composer Danny Elfman, I’ll show you the poem of his first stop-motion work, Vincent, and I’ll show you images of the original sketches from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Finally I’ll give you my conclusions and you’ll compare the information I gave you into your life, thanks readers.
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Introduction
What made me decide about working in the research work on Tim Burton was that all his movies had a sense of black humor, surrealism, animations and creative scenes with bizarre characters, but the center of all that magic scenes and stuff transformed in a story with a message, a story that leaves us to understand or to leave us a smile. What I researched from Tim Burton, all his information on internet, and movie collectives, short movies in youtube.com, and some magazines with articles about him, and so on. The base of this project is to know more about this producer from his stories to his films by the articles I will present and my explanations of his developments.
Justification and objectives
I want to do this work because when I was a child I’ve been always attracted by his movies, the characters, everything. I’ve been always inspired by Jack Skellington, and his idealisms of Christmas Eve, or by the sweet way that Emily, the corpse bride, loved Victor. All those characters with a magic sense of surrealism a different visualization of simple concepts into strange scenes, and pale faces. Something so creepy and at the same time so fantastic, I think knowing more about Tim Burton will make you think that everything on your minds is possible to bring out, with talent and objectives, let’s cultivate our minds with this man, a producer and writer, animator and creator.
DISNEY
Disney started to be one of the stairs for Tim Burton’s animation but Tim didn’t like his simple and pretty foxes and hounds from The Fox and the Hound, very traditional and boring for him, so he soon left Disney not without been appointed with The Nightmare Before Christmas, so Burton approached the opportunity to show his movie to all the world, between other works, now Disney will help him with Alice in Wonderland. By the beginnings, after high school in 1976, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts. Cal Arts had been founded by Disney as a "breeding ground" for new animators, though they did offer other courses of study. Burton entered the Disney animation program in his second year, thinking it would be a good way to make a living. In 1979, he was drafted to join the Disney animation ranks.
Burton did not enjoy being an animator, not one little bit. Imagine, if you will, what it's like to be an animator. Films are projected at 24 frames per second. For a 90-minute film, that's over 129,000 individual frames. Characters are drawn separately and then put together, and placed over painted backgrounds. The work requires talented artists, but they cannot deviate from the structured manner of drawing the characters. Burton had been brought in to work on The Fox And The Hound. The studio recognized that Burton's talent was not being utilized. They made him a conceptual artist. Taken from: http://www.timburtoncollective.com/bio.html
STOP-MOTION.
Stop motion is the technique of taking shot by shot of an object in move by move in a very well planned sequence, and finally unite all those shots into a film or record.It’s a hard work to think but when you get all the equipment, we are talking about artists, scenes, lightening, designs, puppets, and technology for puppets moves, it’s successful to do a movie on this way, as Tim demonstrates. I have to be fair and say that Tim Burton didn’t create this technique, of course it was an old method.
“Stop motion animation has a long history in film. Of the forms already mentioned, object animation is the oldest, then direct manipulation animation, followed (roughly) by sequential drawings on multiple pages, which quickly evolved into cel animation, with clay animation, pixilation, puppet animation, and time-lapse being developed concurrently next. The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. In 1902, the film, Fun in a Bakery Shop used clay for a stop-motion "lightning sculpting" sequence. French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used it to produce moving title-card letters for one of his short films, but never exploited the process for any of his other films.”
“It’s incredible, that’s the amazing thing about the process, it is real thing, real sets, the puppets are there they are real, the lightening is all real, that’s the beauty of the process...the technique never changed and stays in a beautiful quality” said the Director in one of his interviews about The Corpse Bride. The artwork in stop motion, says Burton, is about changing heads, at the nightmare before Christmas that was his task, so on when The Corpse Bride arrived the puppets were arranged with dispositives on their faces to make them laugh, scream, get sad, and so many facets, that in the nightmare before Christmas didn’t had, but still a successful movie.Also was very important the collaborations of artist workers, the lights, sets designs, puppet dressing, and taking shots about every movement the characters do, Burton stands on the idea about the traditional stop motion, which stays on its quality about shots, not something digital, something artistically made in every detail.
Image taken from http://www.zap2it.com/media/photo/2008-07/41246187.jpg
A set from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
First projects.
Vincent (Original poem by Tim Burton)
Vincent Malloy is seven years old
He’s always polite and does what he’s told
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price
He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented
And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented
Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum
He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Could go searching for victims in the London fog
His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times
While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe
One night, while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him turn pale
Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed
His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he’d been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife
While alone and insane encased in his tomb
Vincent’s mother burst suddenly into the room
She said: “If you want to, you can go out and play
It’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”
Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speak
The years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:
“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again”
His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost dead
These games that you play are all in your head
You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy
You’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boy
You’re seven years old and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun.
”Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall
And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to swell, to shiver and creak
His horrid insanity had reached its peak
He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave
She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands
Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams
Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams!
To escape the madness, he reached for the door
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor
His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted The Raven from Edgard Allan Poe:
“and my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
shall be lifted?
Nevermore…”
Vincent became to the first job from Tim in Stop-Motion, The short film tells the sad tale of Vincent Malloy, a suburbanite boy who wants to be just like his idol, Vincent Price. It was a deeply personal film for the young Burton, and it marked his first teaming with two collaborators who would have a great impact on his oeuvre. Rick Heinrichs, who would go on to design several of Burton’s later films, was the producer and provided additional designs. More importantly, the narration was provided by Vincent Price, the classic horror star’s role also reinforced the theme of the film, which is that fantasies about monsters and mad scientists can become more important to kids than their own mundane lives. As Burton later said, “It was probably one of the most shaping experiences of my life.” http://www.timburtoncollective.com/earlymovies.htm
The Nightmare Before Christmas
From words of Tim Burton:
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a movie that I was starting to make ten years before we started with its production, in that time I remember that I was working as animator in Disney Studios, I started Jack’s story as a poem, a kind of poem like Dr. Seuss ones, I started to draw each character too which were in my poems and with time it was taking form of an animated movie. In a beginning I thought that The Nightmare Before Christmas would be a great Christmas special, although y considered other ways for taking it out like a book for kids. With time I thought that it would be a great movie but I thought it would be a little bit strange for Disney in that time, so I kept the project a while.And it’s just that the concept, the title, sounded a little bit scary, the true is that its characters are good, trying to do good things, although from a point of view a little retarded from what everybody knows. Like everybody I was growth loving Christmas specials like Rudolph, the deer with a red nose and The Grinch, which only were on TV every winter. I really wanted something similar, a story that would come in a family tradition.So, The Nightmare Before Christmas, tell us the story about Jack the famous Pumkin King from Halloween Town, who discovers Christmas Town and sees that celebration and he with no doubt he wanted to make something similar in his own town, although the results are far of what Halloween town was. I really adore Jack, is a character full of passion and energy, a figher of life and he doesn’t stop to anything for following an ideal, a dream. That’s why I don’t think that Jack is a villain, simply he lives accustomed to his town celebrations.Christmas and Halloween are my favorite holidays in the year.
From a beginning I thought that the best way to realize this play would be with the Stop-Motion technique, although it was a big deal, but I thought that the results at screen are really impressive, and I thank from the bottom of my soul to Henry Selick who today is the best director in movies made with this animation technique.So, that’s how The Nightmare Before Christmas’ production started in the always active city of San Francisco where a group of dreamers started with the fantastic adventure to give life to Jack, Sally and the rest of the characters that appear in the movie.Sincerely The Nightmare Before Christmas is my favorite movie and has a very special place in my heart, the final result is beautiful, more than I imagined, again I thank to Henry and his wonderful equipment for his work and passion on this film, this movie is the movie that I always wanted to see when I was a child.
Here are sketches of the poem-song “What’s This?” taken from Virtual Kids magazine # 42
Here are some of the replaceable faces of Jack Skellington, taken from Virtual Kids magazine #42, México City
The Corpse Bride
Animating a movie by the Stop-Motion Process takes a lot of attention and presition from the director and his animators, that in just a few minutes of animating takes like two weeks or more, and the more less mistake of movement, lightening would ruin all a scene, so why something so complicated and risky would be on the practice of movie making if there exists easier ways of animation and technology? Tim answers that Stop-Motion is one of the techniques in animation that awake the same feeling in the audience as in live action movies, and in most of the cases there’s a relation that the public establishes with the characters. The movie was taken by digital cameras SLR and Final Cut Pro for its edition, that’s why this movie is watched more lively than any other common filming equipment.Although, the edition work made it much more easy and quick thanks about the new technology, it wasn’t so much that, because the film started to be produced in finals of 2003 in England, for this production were needed miles of puppets that has a steel skeleton covered with silicon and plastic skin. Each figure had a body, unique extremities, but with more than one hundred heads, hands, eyebrows, mouths, eyes all different to give an exact and detailed animation on screen presence.
The Corpse Bride was based on a popular story from Russia, which parents related to their child before getting to bed, at XIX century, in Asia an Europe. In that century, the anti-Semitism was present in all the region of Europe, so it was very common to see the racist bands attacking Jewish communities in their celebrations.In the case of Jewish weddings, the woman was the one who was securing the family future, a new tradition was born between the bandits, they kidnap the bride and murder her and then bury her body on her white dress.The story of this film narrates this facts are showed tenuously, but the message stays on the film, the importance of the heir between a generation and other, like the respect to the sacrifice of the forbears trying to leave a better life to their descendents. The story tells us that this movie takes place in a European village near the XIX century, where a couple is almost getting married, although they never met before. The pressure of their parents make Victor go away into the forest and accidentally gets compromised with a corpse bride. It is a movie that would be defined as a love story, mysterious, and about death, perhaps the particular Tim vision will get us to an animated world very fascinating, Corpse Bride will tell us that even the most tragic fact, tha human nature is capable to give heat to the coldest heart, demonstrating that only love is strongest than death.
Picture which we can appreciate the work on puppet Stop-Motion animation with Victor’s heads.
Taken from: http://www.animationartconservation.com/images/paint5.jpg
Colaborators
Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp II)
A very known collaborator in acting, is of course the talented actor Johnny Depp, a man who shows with his steps and awesome style every character he does, we can remember him recently from Sweeney Todd “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. Interview, in a interview with Chuck the movie guy, he said that Johnny first sang all songs from the play, and it was an hilarious amazing thing, “Johnny said me he thought he would do it and that was all I needed, you know, because there’s no reason why he wouldn’t do it without telling me” .Tim is very familiarized with Johnny, they had been working in many movies.
Movie Year of release Played Character
Edward Scissor Hands 1990 As Edward Scissor Hands a misunderstood boy which had scissors instead hands and people rejected him from being different.
Ed Wood 1994 As Ed Wood , a man who had vision but not talent in movie filming.
Sleepy Hollow 1999 As Ichabod Crane a detective of strange murders in the XVIII century.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 As Willy Wonka the owner of the Chocolate Factory, an ironic and hilarious man.
Corpse Bride 2005 As the voice of Victor Van Dort a timid young man who’s forced to marry, by accident with the Corpse Bride.
Sweeney Todd “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” 2007 As Sweeney Todd, an man who wants revenge of his family loss, by cutting throats to all the ones who come to his barber shop.
Helena Bonham Carter
The actress Helena Bonham Carter and actual Burton’s wife, is one and well known collaborator of most of Tim’s movies, we remember her as Mrs. Lovetts, cooking meat pies, she said “ I got the paper with the right reasons”, so she declared she didn’t got the paper because she’s Burton’s wife, but also in Burtons productions she always had a special female paper, not the protagonist but special for her because Tim always knew she had special talents, for special characters, not forcedly the lead character. Here is a part of an interview she gave published in this page: http://movies.about.com/od/thecorpsebride/a/corpsehb.htm
“He wanted me to play Victoria and I was kind of like, ‘Hmm,’ because it was sort of… Victoria was sort of [the] drama ingénue [and I] kind of did that, you know – to death. I felt like I was going to be type cast as a puppet as well. He said, ‘Well who do you want to play?’ I said, ‘Well, Corpse Bride.’ So then he went away and thought about it and then he came back and he said, ‘You know what? I’ve been thinking about it and, yeah, yeah, I could… But, you know, in animation we kind of need to, I mean would you ever think of any…’ He did all these abandoned sentences [and] went on and on and on. And finally I said, ‘You want me to audition, don’t you?’ And he said, ‘Yeah”
Movie Year of release Played character
Planet of the Apes 2001 As Ari, A female chimpanzee who protests the way humans are treated. She helps Leo lead the rebellion.
Big Fish 2003 Jenniffer Hill, a divorced piano teacher who lives in the town of Spectre
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory 2005 Mrs. Bucket, as the mother of Charlie Bucket, the one who cooks in the poor family.
Corpse Bride 2005 Emily, the voice of the corpse bride who wishes to get married with Victor Van Dort.
Sweeney Todd “ The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” 2007 Mrs. Lovetts, a poor meat pie cook who lives in London and loves deeply Mr. Todd so she helps him to do pies with the corpses of Todd’s victims.
Danny Elfman (Daniel Robert Elfman)
The music composer of most of Tim Burton’s films in soundtracks, yes we talk about Danny Elfman a man who makes those soundtracks, that harmony to our ears and make us suspire, cry or laugh, involving us into an ambient of sadness, fear, happiness and so on. The genius musician met Tim in 1985, when he and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
Instantly they had a connection in music and filming, the perfect suit of involving characters in musical stages.
Burton has said of Elfman: "We don't even have to talk about the music. We don't even have to intellectualize – which is good for both of us, we're both similar that way. We're very lucky to connect" (Breskin, 1997)
Movie Year of release Song or Soundtrack made
Peewee’s Big Adventure 1985 Overture / The Big Race
Beetlejuice 1989 Beetlejuice theme
Edward Scissor Hands 1990 Ice Dance
Batman Returns 1992 The Joker's Poem
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 This is Halloween!
Mars Attacks! 1996 Destructo X
Sleepy Hollow 1999 The Tree Of Death
Planet Of The Apes 2001 the Dirty Deed
Big Fish 2003 Big Fish (Titles)
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory 2005 Oompa Loompa’s Song
The Corpse Bride 2005 The piano Duet
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
References and conclusions.
For the ones who are interested in movie making, surely I hope you will be inspired in work in animation areas, or also with live action films every detail is important. Thanks for the attention, as you saw first, he worked in Disney Studios, he started difficultly drawing pictures and characters that he didn’t like, but we can learn that he had an space in one of the most important animation studios, and he was in well steps, but he also was chasing his dreams of his real inspiration, he started to make a lot of his ideas and finally in the right time and the right opportunity that Disney gave to him to present his famous and favorite movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
Then, I explained the Stop-Motion importance on his films, of course this unique technique is basically one of the choices he made for filming because the method captures the truly essence of the characters to the audience and you can prove it watching a film of that technique, the way it involves you, and of course this great magic on screen has a very complicated and tightly watched with attention to each detail, and artistic form of creating a story don’t you think? Maybe this information will give you an artistic idea or inspiration for some work of yours in the future. I presented the original poem and one of his early movies, the first in stop-motion, Vincent, a boy who imaginary lives as Vincent Price, horror actor of the 50’s, this story would remind you of your childhood, and makes you not forget that yet exists a child inside of us.
Then I showed you two articles of the most gratified stop-motion movies from Tim, The Corpse Bride and The Nightmare Before Christmas, these two films, basically showing the true essence of stop-motion technique, of course The Nightmare Before Christmas was more difficult to make and took more time than The Corpse Bride who had more technology appointments, I wish you could appreciate this movies, and of course the messages they leave to us, as characters who try to make good things, the chase of a dream, the understanding of a mistake, the solidarity, love, in a dark but not awful point of view.Finally I compared three often collaborators in Tim Burton’s films, Johnny Depp the male actor and often protagonist of most of Tim’s movies, an extroverted quite man which we can learn about his humor and appreciate his acting. Helena Bonham Carter the female actress but not most having the main character. And Danny Elfman a genius composer and musician of soundtracks that make us enter into another world exalting our feelings and thoughts. These three collaborators have in common that, the three are often in Burton’s productions and that they are very talented .
References:
Magazine articles: Gamers, “Oogie’s Revenge”,#3, Edit, Limit-X Media, year 2005, page 51, title: “El cadaver de la novia”, author José M Saucedo.
Virtual Kids, # 42, Edit. Mina, Director Yonatan Gomez Uribe, page 20, title “The Nightmare Before Christmas in words of Tim Burton•.
Internet pages: http://www.timburtoncollective.com/
http://movies.about.com/od/thecorpsebride/a/corpsehb.htm
I investigated many biographies about Tim Burtons life and how he influenced art and perceptions about making animation.
I had researched the following sites for Tim Burton's BIOGRAPHY:
1. http://www.timburtoncollective.com/bio.html
In this page contents Tim's biography, his productions, articles, news, and a forum to discuss about him and his job. It's the official fansite so if you want to try the page to discuss or know more about Tim's career and animation, I recommend you this site.
2. http://minadream.com/timburton/Biography.htm
This site contents the begining of Tim's career, some picks from his job (his flashes, movies, artworks, etc) very interactive to see and check out Tim's animations and artworks.
3. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/
The following site it's about Tim's filmography, all the jobs that he had done and he plans to do, if you want to get information about all his trayectory, you can check this page and click the movies or clips from Burton.
4. http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Burton,_Tim/
This site has interviews about Tim's work, his biography of course, images, videos about his movies and art works, and sells Burton's movie products.
5. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800023303/bio in this page shows Tim's biography, his websites, photos, awards and interviews.
In this sites searching, the official Tim Burton's site: http://www.timburton.com/ it's not available by now, here's the message I've found:
timburton.com Not Available
The domain timburton.com which you are trying to access is currently unavailable. This may occur for several reasons -- the name may have changed, or it may have moved to a new location. Please try to access the site later, or contact the site's administrator.
The domain timburton.com which you are trying to access is currently unavailable. This may occur for several reasons -- the name may have changed, or it may have moved to a new location. Please try to access the site later, or contact the site's administrator.
TIME LINE (FILMOGRAPHY)
the next urls:
1* http://www.timburtoncollective.com/earlymovies.html
2* http://minadream.com/timburton/PeeWeesBigAdventure.htm
3* http://minadream.com/timburton/Nightmare.htm
4* http://minadream.com/timburton/Beetlejuice.htm
5* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/plotsummary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/
6* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/plotsummary
7* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103776/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103776/plotsummary
8* http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Ed_Wood/
9* http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Mars_Attacks!/
10* http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Sleepy_Hollow/
11* http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800351534/info
12* http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808403165/info
13* http://www.timburtoncollective.com/corpse.html
14* http://www.timburtoncollective.com/sweeney.html
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ESSAY**
WHY HE IS IMPORTANT FOR MOVIES?
TIM’S CAREER IS IMPORTANT FOR ME BECAUSE HE INFLUENCED ME TO VIEW STORIES AS DIFERENT CONCEPTION, NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE VERY COLORFUL AND EXTREMELY FANTASTICALLY HAPPY, WITH A TOUCH OF SURREALISM TIM BURTON CHANGES THE PERCEPTION OF THE TIRED CONCEPT OF A HAPPY COLORFUL STORY TO STRANGE, SCARY, BIZARRE SCENES AND CHARACTERS, WITHIN A SENSE OF HUMOR, AND A DEEP MORAL MESSAGE, MOST OF THEM ARE THAT BEAUTY Is NOT AT ALL A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT TO BE HAPPY OR HAVE HAPPY MOMENTS, THE REAL THING IS TO LEAVE A DEEP MESSAGE.
HARD WORK AT STOP MOTION MOVIES:
Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) animation is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence.
BURTON SHOWED THAT NOT ONLY COLORFUL MOVIES CAN GET AUDIENC’E’S ATTENTION.
HE DIDN’T INVENT STOP MOTION MOVIES, BUT HE MADE FILMS THAT GOT MOST PUBLIC ATTENTION BY THAT MANNER.
SOME OF HIS STOP MOTION FILMS ARE
- VINCENT PRICE (ONE OF THE FIRST STOP MOTION WORKS RELEASED ON 1 October 1982 (USA)
A SHORT FILM THAT TALKS ABOUT A BOY THAT IN HIS MIND IS VINCENT PRICE AND IMAGINES STRANGE STAGES.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASHP-vgnjAw
- THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (A VERY REPRESENTATIVE MUSICAL MOVIE THAT CAME OUT ON OCTOBER 29 1993)
JACK IS THE PUMPKIN KING THAT HAS TO PREPARE EVERY HALLOWEEN EVERY YEAR, SO HE GETS TIRED AND TRIES TO CHANGE HALLOWEEN TO CHRISTMAS EVE BUT THINGS GET CONFUSED AND ON DISASTER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz2Ho62dVr0
- JIM AND THE GIANT PEACH (LONG FILM WITHIN MUSICAL THEMES RELEASED ON 12 April 1996 (USA)
JIM IS A YOUNG ORPHAN BOY THAT LIVES WITH HIS TWO TERRIBLE AUNTS, ONE DAY HE DARINGLY SAVING THE LIFE OF A SPIDER HE COMES INTO POSSESSION OF MAGIC BOILED CROCODILE TONGUES, AFTER WHICH AN ENORMOUS PEACH STARTS TO GROW IN THE GARDEN. VENTURING INSIDE HE MEETS NOT ONLY THE SPIDER BUT A NUMBER OF NEW FRIENDS INCLUDING A LADYBUG AND A CENTIPEDE WHO HELP HIM WITH HIS PLAN TO TRY AND GET TO NEW YORK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ax6ZrcUx4
- THE CORPSE BRIDE (THE FINAL STOP MOTION FILM BY NOW RELEASED ON 23 OCTOBER 2006)
A MORALISTIC FILM THAT RELATES HOW VICTOR, A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS TO MARRY WITH A YOUNG LADY, WHO DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER, BUT VICTOR IS TOO NERVOUS SO WHILE HE PRACTICES THE WEDDING CEREMONY, ACCIDENTALLY HE RELEASES A CHARM WHICH RETURNS TO LIFE A CORPSE BRIDE NAMED EMILY, SO VICTOR HAS TO FIND SOLUTION TO THE TROUBLE THAT BEGINS FROM THAT MOMENT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMcImrNnOQ
- FRANKENWEENIE (ONE OF HIS FIRST STOP MOTION ANIMATIONS RELEASED ON 1984)
SHORT FILM WHICH TALKS ABOUT A BOY WHO LOOSES HIS DEAR DOG IN A CAR ACCIDENT, THE BOY MISSES TOO MUCH HIS PET, SO HE TRIES TO RETURN HIM TO LIFE USING FRANKENSTEIN’S METHOD, WHICH FINALLY WORKS, BUT THE BOY HAS TO AFRONT THE CONSECUENCES BY PLAYING GOD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP2b-Fq9szc
TIM BURTON'S ARTICLE! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6980537.stm
Venice honours director Burton
Burton is unveiling his latest film at the festivalDirector Tim Burton, whose films include Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, has been honoured with a career award at the Venice Film Festival.
Festival organisers called Burton "one of America's bravest, most visionary and innovative film-makers".
Burton received the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award from his long-time collaborator, actor Johnny Depp, in a red carpet event.
Festival organisers dubbed Wednesday "Tim Burton Day" in his honour.
It's actually a lot more beautiful-looking thing than a bald, naked man
Tim Burton
"I'm very honoured," said Burton, 49. "It means a lot to me. Hopefully it just inspires me to keep going."
He joked that the award was better than an Oscar, saying: "It's actually a lot more beautiful-looking thing than a bald, naked man."
He told Reuters: "You grow up in Hollywood and that whole scenario and what you feel here is that there is just passion about movies. So that's what makes it special to me - it's not about business, it's not about finance, it's about just the love of movies."
After the prize ceremony, Burton's 1993 stop-motion animation A Nightmare Before Christmas was shown at the event.
'Demanding' film
Burton began his film career with the 1985 film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, starring comedian Pee-Wee Herman.
His subsequent movies include Batman, Ed Wood and Mars Attacks.
The acclaimed director has unveiled his latest film at the festival, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
A movie version of the acclaimed Stephen Sondheim musical, it stars Johnny Depp as the eponymous serial killer barber.
It also features Burton's partner, Helena Bonham Carter.
"The amazing thing is that they are not professional singers, and it's quite a demanding (musical)," Burton said.
Festival surprise
The Venice festival is now in its eighth day, and has already seen red carpet appearances from Keira Knightley, Bill Murray, George Clooney and Sir Michael Caine.
On Wednesday, organisers unveiled this year's surprise entry - Mad Detective - a Hong Kong police thriller by directors Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai.
Wai said: "Our hero eschews science and reason. Instead, he possesses the supernatural ability to look into the darkest places of people's minds."
Japanese director Takashi Miike was also due at the festival to show his film, a take on 1960s spaghetti westerns called Sukiyaki Western Django, which references the 1966 cult classic Django, starring Italian actor Franco Nero.
The festival, the world's oldest, is in its 75th year (end of the article)*
Concluding my essay, Tim Burton had contributed to films as a source of inspiration and different perceptions, working from young age and now recieving many kinds of prizes and honours about his dedication and creativity, but not only he made possible all those awards, actors, composers, writers, animators behind the movies contributed alot to make Tim get high awarded, those honours for Tim are equal to all the ones who helped on each movie.
I decided to do my investigation work about him because this director, writer, and animator, between other talents, had been my source of inspiration to study cinematography, animation, and his job influenced me to think about many kind of perceptions about a simple story and of course to make stories.
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