Tim Burton Poetry

I chose to look at Tim Burton's poetry because I think it is very imaginative and childish. I found an animation he did and looked at using the poem's rhythm to create my own.I really like the way Burton manages to show two different worlds the child lives in. This is what I want to achieve, I am creating backgrounds to show the childrens' imaginations then a smaller screen showing the children playing in the real world.

Vincent Price.

“Vincent Malloy is seven years old,
He’s always polite and does what he’s told.

For a boy his age he’s considerate and nice,
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price.”

“He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats,
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats.

There he could reflect on the horrors he’d created
And wander dark hallways where no man tormented”

Vincent was nice when his aunt came to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum.

He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie

So he and his horrible zombie dog
Can go searching for victims in the London fog

His thoughts weren’t all of ghoulish crime
He likes to paint and read to pass the time

While other kids read books like go jay go
Vincents favourite author is edgar alan poe

One night while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him pale

Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive

He dug out a grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was, his mothers flowerbed.

I really tried to use aspects of his writing and style to create my own which would be easy to be read by a child and keep the viewer intrigued. This is my first attempt.

Amelia Harold is five years old,
She’s quiet and shy and not very bold,
Her favourite toy is her cuddly Raggy
The head of a dog, just a rag for a body.

She always had to play with her older brother Harry,
He likes worms, bugs and mud and always gets dirty.
Away from watching eyes he hid spiders out of sight,
For Amelia to find and get quite a fright.

Amelia and Harry had something in common
They liked having things to play with, under and on!
Scrapstore could give them whatever they wanted
like send them to jungles and territories uncharted

They explored outer space and lived like the martians
Or played grown ups making executive decisions.
Amelia could make whatever she wanted
But had a hard time stopping harry destroy it.

Harry was good when his mother was watching
But when her back turned he’d pretend he was flying.
Amelia’s fairy wings took her to the stars
Harry’s cape was made from curtains.

He was King of the castle and all of the land!
And made servants suffer under his hand??
He wanted to be rich and rule all the word
So he stole the map and found the treasure hold

I tried to write about things which could be easily shown in a film which would show off children playing and the benefits of this.