Introduction

Hello, and welcome! This is a blog dedicated to Tim Burton and all of his accomplishments. Tim Burton is the director of many unforgettable movies such as Batman, Alice in Wonderland and Planet of the Apes. Throughout the blog you will be able to learn a little more about Tim Burton himself, but most importantly how over the years he has managed to create such a big impact on people's lives. With the help of a Burton Tetrad, Artifacts, and report, you will learn why Tim Burton and his movies are a pop culture moment that will last for generations and generations to come. 

Burton Tetrad

Enhancement          Tim Burton has a style in his movie making that is dark and strange, unlike no other.  His unusual and bizarre approach to the movie industry makes the audience have an unforgettable experience while watching his films.         Burton’s personality can only be described as weird, wacky and unusual. He is not your typical popular and social able director. He is often recognized of somewhat of a loner and very unsocial. Being so talented, Burton fights the social norms of being popular and likable  The audience finds this fascinating and enjoys Burton’s productions even more.       Burton's had many experience in school as a child that have scarred him forever, in films, he is able to portray all of his fears and experiences in a way that an audience can understand. This way, the audience is not only watching a film, but reliving the difficult experience along with the director.

Reversal                  Tim Burton is a person with ideas and concepts that will continue to be used and learned from throughout many years and generations to come. He teaches life values that can be applied at any point of someone’s life, even when the event/movie is finished.                As people have gone through the concepts of Enhancement and retrieval and have discovered all of the great experiences and moments they can relive and learn about, they will want to repeat it again. This creates a continuous cycle that carries from generation to generation.         When a person is done either learning about Tim Burton or watching his movies, it is very likely that they will introduce it to someone else for them to have the same experience.

Retrieval            Tim Burton takes his fans back to old childhood memories, with his creativity and simplicity, through his films Tim Burton helps his audience escape the problematic world they live in even if it’s just for a small period of time and maybe even help them realize that life should be seen simply and that originality is the most important aspect.         Fans not only of his movies but other aspects of his career like art and drawings can retrieve or learn from this artwork the fact that it is okay to think outside the box.   As people grow up, they tend to start to get so caught up in their life and have this perfect idea of how things should be that they forget about the aspects of their life that really matter. Burton helps adults re-create a sense of imagination and that having a different perspective on things is perfectly fine.            In production like Batman, it helps the audience remember of how fun it was to play with action figures or even dress up as one. Tim Burton is able to get people back into the mentality that anything is possible, that they can save the world.

Obsolescence            Tim Burton has established a certain way of making his movies; he follows the same pattern of dark and strange. It’s his pattern in productions that make him memorable and distinguished among others.            Tim Burton has accustomed his fans to expect the unexpected. Burton’s movies show the diverse genres he is able to go into and successfully do so. Fans keep on going to his latest films because Burton has, from the very beginning identified who he is as a director; and the audience loves it.         It is because of Burton’s different way of expressing himself and releasing his unique movies that he has gained all of the respect and will continue to do so throughout the years.

Artifacts- Clothing #1

Clothing

This first artifact is a collage of different clothing items that are sold either a stores or online to Tim Burton’s Fans about various successful movies that he directed. As seen above, there is a large variety of clothing items that can be bought to show support and love for Burtons movies. Most importantly, when a person wears a shirt that either has an image of Batman, The Joker or Tim Burton himself, it is making a statement to the rest of the world. In wearing a shirt with Tim Burton on it, it immediately becomes the message. It is making a statement about the person wearing it, making it clear that they agree with Tim Burton’s ideologies and wonderful creations. Not only does will this shirt make a statement about the producer, but also to the consumer. A person walking by and seeing someone wearing a Tim Burton shirt, it might get them interested in the person or character. The consumer is sending a message with the shirt they are wearing and it is up to the consumer to identify if they will accept it and let it affect them and become a part of their life or if it is irrelevant. As this cycle continues, clothing and shirts will create a bigger and bigger fan base for Tim Burton; this artifact is essentially a form of advertising.

News Article #2

Tim Burton, at Home in His Own Head

Mr. Burton with accessories at his home in London, including a picture of the actor Larry Hagman. ("Don't ask. I have weird references.") More Photos »

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Published: September 19, 2012

IT would be a tremendous disappointment if Tim Burton’s inner sanctum turned out to be a sterile environment, barren except for a telephone on its cold white floor; or a cubicle with a “World’s Greatest Dad” coffee mug. Instead, the workplace of the filmmaker behind invitingly grim delights like “Beetlejuice” and “Edward Scissorhands” is a definitive Burtonesque experience: on a hill here in north London, behind a brick wall and a mournful tree, in a Victorian residence that once belonged to the children’s book illustrator Arthur Rackham, it lies at the top of a winding staircase guarded by the imposing portraits of Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. Its décor is best characterized as Modern Nonconformist (unless Ultraman toys and models of skeletal warriors are your thing), and when the master of the house greets you, his drinking glass will bear a poster image for “The Curse of Frankenstein.”

That the word Burtonesque has become part of the cultural lexicon hints at the surprising influence Mr. Burton, 54, has accumulated in a directorial career that spans 16 features and nearly 30 years. Across films as disparate as“Ed Wood,” “Alice in Wonderland” and “Big Fish” — released to varying critical and commercial receptions — he has developed a singular if not easily pinned-down sensibility. His style is strongly visual, darkly comic and morbidly fixated, but it is rooted just as much in his affection for monsters and misfits (which in his movies often turn out to be the same thing). He all but invented the vocabulary of the modern superhero movie (with “Batman"), brought new vitality to stop-motion animation (with “Corpse Bride,” directed with Mike Johnson, and“The Nightmare Before Christmas,” which Mr. Burton produced) and has come to be associated, for better or worse, with anything that is ghoulish or ghastly without being inaccessible. He may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema.

His success has also transported him from sleepy, suburban Southern California, where he grew up and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, to London, where he lives with his partner, the actress Helena Bonham Carter, and their two young children, and where he has come to embrace the sensation of being perpetually out of place.

“I just feel like a foreigner,” Mr. Burton said in his cheerful, elliptical manner. “Feeling that weird foreign quality just makes you feel more, strangely, at home.”

On a recent morning Mr. Burton, dressed entirely in black, was talking about his new animated feature, “Frankenweenie,” which will be released by Walt Disney on Oct. 5., and which tells the charming story of a young boy (named Victor Frankenstein) who reanimates the corpse of his dead pet dog.

Like its director “Frankenweenie” is simultaneously modern and retrograde: the film, which is being released in 3-D black-and-white, is adapted from a live-action short that Mr. Burton made for Disney in 1984, when he was a struggling animator. That project did not get the wide release Mr. Burton hoped for, but it paved the way for him to direct his first feature, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” the following year.

As he spoke (and occasionally shaped his feral, curly hair into something resembling satyr horns), Mr. Burton was in a nostalgic mood but also a defiant one. That may have been the result of the tepid reception that greeted “Dark Shadows,” his big-budget remake of the TV soap opera (which Mr. Burton said did not disappoint him), or a reluctance to analyze trends in his career. Whether he was talking about his upbringing in Burbank, his earliest frustration at Disney or the unexpected honor of a career retrospective presented at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions, Mr. Burton still casts himself as an outsider.

“Wanting people to like you is nice, but I’m confident that there’s always going to be lots that don’t,” Mr. Burton said with gallows humor and genuine pride. “I’ll always be able to hang on to that.” These are excerpts from this conversation.

The hero and his pet in Mr. Burton’s current feature “Frankenweenie,” based on the short.

This artifact is a news article about Tim Burton and his lifestyle at home in London.  The article makes a remark on his success using the movies he directed as examples. This article further explains the kind of environment Tim Burton lives in and what he is constantly surround by when he is at work and he is taking time off. The main idea that is emphasized is the idea that Burton feels at most times out of place, the feeling that he doesn't belong. The most important thing that is learned about Tim Burton in this news article is the fact that he has accepted the fact that not everyone is going to like him and I really believe that that mentality is the reason behind all of his success. 

Movie Posters #3

                              

                                               

                This artifact is a collage of posters of all of the movies that Tim Burton has directed. These types of posters can be found in many public places like at the mall, on the street, billboards etc. In a sense, this is global village that allows any kind of person to retrieve this particular information about Tim Burton’s movies anywhere. This form of advertising is very commonly used because it is very effective.  People are subjected to a certain message of going to see one of Tim Burton’s movies without even realising it. Without people realising that they are receiving a message about starting to show interest about a specific movie or even going to see it, it starts creating a very big fan base either for a movie like Batman or Tim Burton himself. As mentioned before, this is an ongoing cycle that is always getting bigger and gaining more power. 

Movie Clip #4

  Movie Clip

This is a very unique artifact that I found on a blog dedicated to Tim Burton. The brief movie clip is made with really great graphics that creates a timeline from start to present of all of the movies Tim Burton has directed. This video is just one of the many that are found online either on YouTube or other blog sites. These videos are usually created to pay tribute to Tim Burton and it’s a way of people showing their appreciation and dedication. Out of the 5 artifacts that I listed, this is the most significant and the one that is able to summarize and promote what Tim Burton movies is all about.  By people watching these kinds of clips it allows them to receive the message about Tim Burton’s ideas.  We see the different genres and types of movie that he produces and we are able to make a quick decision on whether we like his style of work.  

http://vimeo.com/martinwoutisseth/timburtonafilmography

Click on the link above to view the video

Artwork #5

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* It is only necessary to watch up to around the 4 minute mark to understand my point.

                This artifact are different drawings and art work by Tim Burton, I also decided to incorporate a video of the director himself in a behind the scenes where he talks about his art, how it all started, and the meaning behind them.  Tim Burton is not only known as a director but for his weird and fascinating drawings.  The majority of his art is found online, more specifically in blogs that are dedicated to him and all of his accomplishments. With the internet being such a successful and knowing form of media, it is very easy to come across these drawings in blogs and research sites. The thing that has caused these drawings in being so memorable to the audience is the fact that well, they are not very good.  This art work is so different than what people are used to seeing that it grabs their attention. In the video we learn about how Tim Burton was never very good at drawing as a child but he continued because he saw it as a form of escape and a way to process his thoughts and what he was feeling.  The idea of a person person being normal or anything that has to do with the idea of  “normal” has always scared Tim Burton, and that is what has made him and this  artwork  so remembered and known.