Chloë's Short Film Analysis #3: Inconceivable

• Inconceivable is a 2009 comedy by Tom Williams. Its tells the story of a weary couple to go to great lengths in their attempt to start a family. Whist the film has its darker, and sometimes upsetting moments, it is primarily a comedy.

Inconceivable Film

• The film uses aspects of comedy well. The films is set around the Cerne Abbas Giant and uses its phallic image to generate comedy. Again at the end of the film the director uses phallic jokes. 

• The film follows a linear patten, and also consists of a beginning, middle and end. The end is a flash forward in time, after the baby has been born, which we could use in our film.

• The non digetic sound track at the beginning of the film shows the couples hope and determination to have a child, whist the prominent soundtrack in the middle of the film reinforces this. When the couple sit awkwardly after Mark fails to perform, the diegtic sound of the wind and birds heighten the embarrassment and the comedic value of the shot.

• The film uses a fade to show the coming of the morning, a editing technique I want to use properly in my short film. During some of the serious bits, there are many close ups to show the emotion on the characters faces. A Worms Eye View shot is also used to give the view of the baby, which again adds to the comedic value of the film. The settings are naturalistic and provide a  base for the naturalistic colouring, costume and props. An interesting use of preposition is used; we see each protagonist sitting on one part of the phallic symbol, which makes the scene initially funny to watch, especially when compared to the context of the scene beforehand.

• The film represents a modern struggle; the inability to conceive a child. The characters are stereotypical of people who struggle to become pregnant as the female protagonist is an older woman and her husband had erectile dysfunction.