My short film synopsis

This term we are making our own short films in groups, for my short film I am working with Sam Abouelfaid.

This is a synopsis for the idea we decided on:

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. The child leaves the 'daddy' toy in the park, hugs the 'mummy toy' to her and they walk out of the park. The 'daddy' toy is shown at the end before fading to black.

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 back to him, this is left up to interpretation. Although the audience may see that the child is obviously on her mums side, by leaving the dad toy and clutching the mum toy.

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,