NSPCC child abuse trailer

This is a trailer consisting of the main issue of child abuse conveying fear. When watching this trailer the audience are under to impression that the young daughter is being abused and is scared of her father. This can be viewed by the fear portrayed on her face. We are shown a shot towards the end, being told that this was 2 hours before the father returned home to his daughter. He is shown drinking at a graveyard, as no mother is shown in this trailer, we are left to assume that the mother has died and the father resents his daughter for this. Coincidently, our trailer has got the same sort of storyline, however, set in totally different time periods. Something that also makes us feel that the daughters mother has died, once we see this graveyard shot, is the picture that she was drawing before hand, the camera zoomed in on this just beofre the words '2 hours before' appeared on the screen. It was a picture of a woman, with what appeared to be a knife going through her and blood dripping from her body. At the end of the trailer, the audience are left thinking, did the father do this and is this why he is drinking and taking his anger out on his daughter?

Some of the medium shots shown of the little girl have beeen edited to black and white, this portrays more fear and lonliness than colour as we cannot see her whole surroundings. The little girl appears totally alone and isolated, where this trailer has been filmed, the props that have been used are plain and show a close up shot of the little girl alone doing her homework with no one to assist her and no one even at her home when she returns from school. This makes the audience sympathise totally towards her.

There is music played the whole way through this trailer, we can hear that it is a piano, this music creates emotion and the fact that there is no one speaking until the very end helps the audience to view exactly what is going on, or as we are not told the story through somebody elses eyes, left to imagine what is going on. Despite this not being a trailer for a film, it is a trailer that revolves around the main issue of our film so it does help us to see the ways in which child abuse is portrayed. We do not actually view the father hitting his child in this trailer, but through her emotions we can see that this is what does usually happen. In our trailer we will not show abuse towards the child in a physical way, just anger portrayed through the fathers actions and sadness shown through the daughters face.