Short Film Synopsis

My idea for a short film synopsis, and the idea me and Sam have decided to choose to do, is this:

During the day, a young girl is in a park with her mum and her toys, the mum doesn’t show her face. Her mum gets a phone call and leaves the child to play on her own with her toys for a bit. She is making her toys act out stories that seem rather morbid, such as a ‘daddy’ toy hurting a ‘mummy’ toy. She makes them argue, obviously thinking it’s the normal thing that parents do. The story she makes with the toys takes up most of the film, before her mum tells her that they have to go. The audience finally see the mums face, which is shown to have cuts and bruises on it, and they walk out of the park as the film ends.

Hopefully from this, the audience will see that the mum is a victim of domestic violence, and the child is a witness to this, thinking it is a normal, everyday thing. The ending doesn’t give away whether or not they’re going to get away from the violent person, or if they’re going backto him, this is left up to interpretation.

I like this idea because its supposed to make the audience think a little bit. It shows that children perceive things differently than adults, they might think something is normal when it really isn’t. Maybe it will make people who have witnessed domestic abuse tell someone about it, or get help for it. It will also show off the talents that we have for making and editing films,