Tim Burton was born in 1958 in California. He studied art in university and worked for Walt Disney studios. His films are known for their gothic and dark themes inspired by 1920s-1930s horror films. He often features pale characters with black hair who have bad relationships with their parents. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter frequently star in his films. One favorite film is Alice in Wonderland, where Alice battles the Jabberwocky in Wonderland and returns home.

2. BIOGRAPHY
-He was born on 25th
August, 1958 in California.
-He loves painting, drawing and the cinema.
-He finished the high school and then he studied in the Art University of
California, created by Walt Disney.
-Tim burton worked with the Walt Disney’s studios.

3. Principal films

4. Main visual elements
-The spectrums that he uses in his films are sinister, using black, green, red
and grey colours.
-The fantastic using primary attractive colours.
-His style is influenced by horror films of 1920-1930.
-There are so many graceful worked curves with spirals.
-He includes dead dogs, clowns and black and white mosaics.

5. Common themes in all his filmsCommon themes in all his films
-Gothic and dark cinema, inspired in Jan Svankmajer.
-Other movies are fantastic as fairy tails.
-His works are mainly comic.

6. -The physical features of the leading characters are extreme.
-Many characters have big eye bags.
-Sinisters characters and self-taught people.
-They usually have a bad relationship with their parents.
-These characters are antisocial, shy and pale with black hair.

7. -Johnny Depp
-Helena Bonham Carter

8. Our favourite film
• Alice in Wonderland
• Alice, who is 19 years old, enters in Wonderland with the help of the White
Rabbit and there she fights the Jabberwocky. Finally, she goes home and
follows the bussines of her father

9. Favourite Scenes
• The fall of Alice in the burrow.
• The encounter with the Ghost Cat.
• The tea time with the Crazy Rabbit and the Mad Hatter.
• The death of the jabberwocky.

10. Similar director’s trademarks
• The Mad Hatter is Johny Deep. He is a sinister character.
• The physical features of the characters are extreme.
• This film is a fairy tail.
• He uses sinister and fantastic spectrums.
• There are elegant curves.
• He uses black and white mosaics.