'This is me' Analysis

Analysis (Genre)

• This short film is set within a surburb of West London. The genre for this film I would say is a Comedy or Comedy Drama. The family house is set right below the Heathrow flightpath.

• This comedy is all about one small toy plane which eventually paralyses the man in the picture above. Various semantic codes such as the toy plane, the terraced housing, the glass of spirit all give us the audience an idea into what sort of family this is.
• The use of Steve Neale's 'Repetition and Variation' by creating new ideas is apparent in this film. The use of cartoon drawings to establish the journey of the toy plane from Max's mouth to hitting his Dad, Bertie, on the head is not just comical but very clever.

• The journey of the toy plane out of the big aircraft is one of the funniest moments of the film. A ECU is used of the plane as it eventually finds itself to Bertie's forehead and paralysing him completely. 

• A flashback has been used from the beginning scene to 2 years before hand when the inident happened. This editing technique allows the viewers to see what life was like for Bertie 2 years ago. At the very end of the piece we return to the hospital bed, with him in a bad condition. A trophy which reads 'The End' is of a toy plane, the object which injured Bertie.

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