'people told me I couldn't kill off Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice'

Recently we have been looking at inspirational directors whom we could get ideas from and would help us when making our film clips. I decided to look into the work of Tim Burton who created films such as Frankenweenie, Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Edward Scissorhands. Here are some of the interesting things I found out about him:

• Several of his films are based on pictures he drew as a kid. Some of his drawings would serve as the inspiration for some of his most memorable characters and films such as Edward Scissorhands, Jack Skellington from A Nightmare Before Christmas and the design for Frankenweenie was based on a childhood dog he had.
• He directed a twisted Hansel and Gretel for Disney. It was a bizarre, Japanese-inspired take on the classic fairy tale ‘Hansel & Gretel.’ The rarely scene Disney Channel special featured puppetry, stop-motion animation and Burton’s distinctive visual style throughout. The film never made it to video or DVD, but was shown as part of Burton’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. 
• Disney refused to release the original Frankenweenie. Disney also gave Burton the chance to direct another short, ‘Frankenweenie,’ starring Shelley Duvall and Daniel Stern, about a boy who loses his beloved dog and brings him back to life just like Frankenstein’s monster. The film was a bit dark for Disney’s tastes and the MPAA agreed, slapping it with a PG rating. 

We then also looked at the ways in which we could incorporate his style of directing into our film as we wanted to make our clip quite dark. We thought of many different ways and these are shown in another picture below: