Josh - Tim Burton

Bio

• Born in California
• Known for dark comedy
• 2 children
• Started off making short films in backyard
• Badly behaved student
• Childhood hero was Roald Dahl
• Started working as Disney animator

Movies
Genres

• Adventure comedies
• Superhero films
• Sci fi films
• Musicals
• Horror films
• Gothic Fantasy
• Murder mystery
• Animated

Actors

• Winona Ryder
• Johnny Depp
• Christopher Lee
• Jeffrey Jones
• Helena Bonham Carter

Tropes

• Blonde ingénue
• Black and white
• Vertical stripes
• Pale face, dark haired, misunderstood loner
• Vibrant colours
• Overly or unsaturated colours
• Ethereal, vulnerable, whimsical characters

Edward Scissorhands

• Suburban houses are ridiculously over saturated whilst Edward is completely de-saturated
• Pastels, chromes, greys, blacks, whites
• POV shot, discomfort, seeing through the characters eyes

Alice Through the Looking Glass

• Aerial shots
• Medium shots
• Shot-reverse-shot, over the shoulder
• Vivid colour palette

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Dynamic colour palette
• Heightened sensory
• Louder sound effects, brighter colours, wider lens,

• Graphic Match
• Binary opposition
• Polarities