Basic Plot.

The storyline of our thriller is portrayed through two different contrasting scenes.
In the opening of our film a young girl is shown swinging on a swing in a park, she is alone, and has a vulnerable yet sad and thoughtful expression to her face. This immediately creates curiousity as to why shes on her own and looking so sad.
In the second scene the flashbacks of violence are then brought into the film, however the fight scene is only shown in shadow form which makes the identities of the characters fighting a mystery, but the audience is made to presume that the characters fighting are the childs Mother and Father, which is why the young girl is so withdrawn as she has had to witness the anger of her Father hitting her Mother.
As our brief states that this should only be the 'opening' to a thriller, we have intentionally left many questions from the audience unanswered, because by immediately giving away to much information about the domestic abuse it would only ruin the atmosphere and mysterious effect we were trying to create. It may not even be apparent to the audience that the violent shadow figures were the childs Mother and Father but our film does convey that the violence shown has made the child to be the sad and lonely figure on the film.
Ideally as the film progressed we would have shown the psychological reasons as to why this domestic abuse had been happening, and the impact it had made on the child caught in between it all.