Decision Time

Renewed Film Analysis Handbook
Rewatched Beetlejuice to make a final decision on whether it could be one of my Task 1 films. I am leaning towards studying Edwards Scissorhands and Batman Returns.

The Cost of Living

Today I borrowed Beetlejuice from Mr Ussher so that I can work out which of the three films he recommended I would like to study.
I worked out whether it would be more cost effective to keep renting my chosen films or buy them... I have decided to continue renting and borrowing them if possible as my Dad already rents them cheaper than normal and I can borrow Edward Scissorhands from the school library.

Week 7

• Rewatched Batman and Edward Scissorhands to take down notes (as first time round I decided I wouldn't - bad idea!) and so that Dad can return them along with Beetlejuice tomorrow
• I am still undecided on which movies I am going to study, so I got Dad to rent out Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Atttacks! and Sleepy Hollow (for $5) to see whether they will have any possibilities for the Task 1 comparison
• A friend lent me Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Begin film viewing.... NOW!

Watched Beetlejuice and took general notes on stylistic characteristics that stood out, so that once I have watched several of Tim Burton's movies I can look back over them and see which films are similar stylistically.

Tim Burton and I

I have only ever seen Tim Burton's latest films: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005) and Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)but never his earlier work. So in order to decide on the three films I will be studying and get a feel for his style, I must view more of his body of work.

Today I:

• Got my Dad to rent out Burton's Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989) and Edward Scissorhands (1990) from Video Ezy New Brighton, where he got them out for $6
  
• Went to the Central City Library and borrowed The Films of Tim Burton: animating live action in contemperary Hollywood by film scholar, Alison McMahan. Which is a book covering Burton's entire body of work explaining how his films fit into contemporary Hollywood and why McMahan calls his work "pataphysical" ("films that are full of intertextual references and blatant special effects, and that have in many ways abandoned the classical Hollywood narrative style.")


• Also recorded a documentary on Sky Movies Greats called Johnny Depp: Under His Skin, as I know Depp has collaborated with Burton many times (six to be exact).