what i want my real piece to be inspired by...

 I haven't decided to go with taking inspiration from an entire genre, I would prefer to study one particular group of films which are similar in many ways due to the fact that they have been directed by the same individual.
 I will look at two films directed by Tim Burton, find the main themes that run through them (i.e the common features of the 'genre') analyse which aspects the target audience and I find affective and adapt these techniques to hopefully make something which has a similar affect on the target audience.

I chose to edit this picture of Tim Burton as it  show the diversity of his work and partially distorted it to show his eccentricity.
(I did this all on photoshop)

Tim Burton

 To take more influence from Burton, I also chose to do some research on him to find out what inspires him and therefore hopefully gain an insight into why his films are the way they are.

  As he spent most of his childhood alone, drawing cartoons and more recently has explored his talent for photography, he is clearly a very artistic individual, his fellowship from Disney to the Californian Institute of The Arts confirms this. Also, the fact that a lot of his work and almost all of his title sequences are animated show his interest in these mediums and may be why I have noticed the high artistic influence on his work, which makes a lot of films he directs don't only work to convey story or emotion they also have a simply interesting aesthetic quality especially in either Establishing shots or Master shots. This also explains why the majority of themes featured in Burton films such as "Edward Sissorhands" are largely based on being a recluse that could be why there appears to be a very dark side to the title sequence he chose.
  However though he is good at bringing his own personal influence on completely new films, he also has a skill of re-telling and re-making old such as Sweeney Todd... and Ed Wood. On these he also manages to brings his own influence, as shown well in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, as though there was a lightly touched on element of darkness in the original story, Burton chose to go into detail about the problematic childhood of the character 'Willy Wonka',as may be he could relate to this and feels could do a better job if this is the case.
  This vast amount of freedom Burton now has in Hollywood mostly comes from how hugely successful his 1989, Batman film was.

• Saw the title sequence to Batman, not in the genre I first associated with Burton, but the title is really effective, I like what Morrison did with such a simple idea.  
• My sequence has to be very creative, just using interesting camera positions may not be enough to say that Burton was an inspiration behind it. So full use of the software available.
• Assuring it is ascetically interesting.
• No matter how ambiguous the sequence is there must be an element of  'darkness' running through it, for this I could do further research into elements of horror sequences.