Big Fish: The Author's Journey

The look of Big Fish (2003) is explored as the filmmakers comment on the "folk tale" nature of the movie. We are given a look at the production design, the costumes, and how the giant effects were done.

Stan Winston introduces a behind-the-scenes look at how the fantastic creatures in the movie were created.

The game is the same...only the rules have changed.

Discover information from Burton, Elfman, Roy, and Jaynes. This one focuses on the movie’s Oompa-Loompa songs and offers one of the disc’s better programs. Elfman eloquently discusses all of his challenges and gives us a nice look at his song-writing processes.

A look at the main character of Big Fish (2003)

A look at Tim Burton's visual style in Big Fish (2003)

Danny DeVito talks about his ringmaster character

We hear from Burton, head animal trainer Michael Alexander, supervising prop modeller Oliver Hodge, visual effects supervisor Nick Davis, animatronics and prosthetics creative supervisor Neal Scanlan, and actor Julia Winter. They chat about the challenges involved with training squirrels and how they accomplished those scenes. This includes both real and artificial animals. We see how they were taught to deal with the nuts and issues related to the attack on Veruca.

A short documentary that explains the process of how actor Deep Roy prepared to play the Oompa-Loompas in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and shows how Deep was able to play all of them.

This examines the relationship of the Edward & Will Bloom characters in Big Fish (2003)