Proposal

I have decided that what I am going to be investigating for my small scale project is what Tim Burton can bring to Disney through researching his early career with Disney and how it’s changed since whether this is through his contributes to new films or if this is from people’s opinions on the movies from reviews or why they use his unique style of work and how this contributes to the “magic” of Disney films.

The films which I shall be focusing on for this project is that I am going to focus on The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice In Wonderland , Frankenweenie and to research the upcoming new releases of Tim Burton and Disney collaborations such as Alice In Wonderland Through The Looking Glass, Dumbo and Beauty And The Beast, the main aim about this project is to find out why Disney finally decided to use Tim’s particular style when during the beginning they were unsure about his method of work as it didn’t fit the Disney expectations.

 I’ve always been fascinated by Tim Burton’s films such as Edwards Sissorhands, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Beetlejuice as these films opened the horizons of the possibilities within films as Burtons trait has very similar qualities such as using the same actor’s such as Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter or the choice of colours and the representation of main character’s with dark large sunken eyes, as other’s have never used this style of work as Burton’s style is one of a kind, however I was always excited when Disney and Tim Burton produced films together as in my opinion I felt that Burton would always bring a new addition to the Disney movies and make them more engaging as they didn’t stand up to the conditions of Disney.

So far during my research I have discovered a majority of resources about Tim Burton and Disney at an early stage in Tim’s career, when reading chapters within ‘Burton On Burton’ in the chapter Disney and Vincent it explains how at the beginning Disney and Tim were a bad mix because of Burton’s rare style and how it could contribute to Disney’s films, even though when working on a project with Disney his sketches for The Fox And The Hound would end up looking like “road kill”. I have also researched into Alice In Wonderland through watching trailers, interviews, finding reviews in sight and sound magazines as well as Empire magazine to read the reviews given to the films to see people’s opinions on Burton take on these classic Disney films.

After researching into some of my focus films I started to explore new release for Tim Burton’s collaborations with Disney such as Alice In Wonderland Through The Looking Glass which is supposed to be released on the 26^th of May 2016 where as the acclaimed Dumbo is still to have a release date even though fans have already started to imagine the possibilities of what Burton can bring to the beloved Disney classic.

Furthermore during my research I have focused on what Tim Burton’s childhood was like and how this could contribute to his imaginative mind and the aspects he bring to Disney, as in ‘Burton On Burton’ – Childhood In Burbanks-Cals Ants Tim explains about when he was a child and how he always felt “alienated” as he would enjoy watching horror movies (as he always loved monsters and monster movies), scaring the neighbours next door and ripping the head off of his toy soldiers which could suggest how he could put this into his idea’s when making sketches for a film.

By the end of this project I am hoping to achieve finding out how Disney and Burton work together to produce films and whether they will always work together to enhance Disney films as since Burton’s collaborations with Disney so far has been admired by many audiences, but I am hoping that by the end of this project I would have answered my question on what can Tim Burton bring to Disney and also to prove to people how the collaboration of Burton and Disney work marvellous together.

During my research so far the secondary research which I have used for my project is that I have read chapters from ‘Burton On Burton’ which include his childhood, Disney and Vincent, Hansel and Gretel, Frankenweenie and Aladdin’s Lamp and The Nightmare Before Christmas to extend my information further to have more reliable sources which can contribute to his early life, career and his style of work, I have also read articles from The Sight and Sound magazine from April 10^th 2010 volume 20 issue 4 pages 32-34 on Alice In wonderland to gain resourceful opinions on the take on the classic and how he uses common themes within films, finally I have research on the Empire magazine and other online newspaper reviews on his films to get a mixture of opinions from different companies to see whether they support these films more or less than the other magazines.