Nigel - This is me Analysis

This short film is about a man who is struck in the head by a falling toy plane after living in a house directly under a flightpath; this puts him in hospital where his wife visits him monthly but is more interested in the money than actually caring about him. I think this short film should be classed into the genre of comedy but could also be a new type of comedy idea as it follows different conventions of genre.

The narrative is pretty basic, but extended once again as short films are usually done. This one uses editing to extend the idea further, with cut aways, voice overs and the order of the narrative being scrambled so there is further enigma for the audience, this is restricted narration as the voice over knows what is going on and what has happened and this could be something effective in creating a comedic effect as the comedic parts of the narrative are revealed at a later date, like the toy plane.

Another thing which allows me to think that this is very much so a comedic short story is the diagrams and voice over, these are made to explain things much simpler but as a comical way too as it was a cartoon as well. This editing and visual effect helps us understand the lightheartedness of the voice over man. He seems to have a great influence on how the short film is actually seen as he talks about it as if he is happy and content with what was going on instead of being angry ect as probably many people would be, especially with their wife if they are trying to just get as much money as they can instead of acting on the situation and actually caring.

 

This doesn’t seem to repeat much from other film concepts; it isn’t exactly generic and is pretty unique to the film, instead of boring or copying mainstream ideas, such as horror conventions like zombies as the antagonists, this seems to be a different instead of playing by the usual rules of the genre and mixing them instead, creating new ideas and allowing the short film to appear more unique than previously thought. The ideas are meant to be funny

This could also be said to be a slight thriller as it has conventions of this as well; it builds suspense after having a non-linear plot. Starting with the end basically means that the end is inevitable but it isn’t revealed until pretty much the end what actually causes it and how, there is also (pretty much) death involved as the man is fatally injured. There are a lot of questions left after the sequence is over, which could suggest that actually restricted narration is used fairly often in the story, which means a lot of details are left out, did they actually know what caused the little plane to fall out of the sky and who did it? Or is the narrator speaking as if he has omniscience? This almost helps place this into the comedy genre as it doesn’t help any questions or the narrative progress but instead suggests the rest is unnecessary and the main focus is what is happening there and then. 

 

To conclude, the genre of this short film is something unique as it has varying genres which clash and create something new with new ideas and new ways to display them with the technical codes, allowing people to create more and be different instead of being the same.