When initially stuck with an idea for my movie, I looked to my own past experiences for inspiration. Thinking back to my childhood, I experienced verbal abuse and bullying first hand. Although this meant dragging up some bad memories, I decided it gave me a powerful subject matter for an animation. Whilst my piece is designed to present the worst-case scenario of child abuse, which I did not experience, I will use my history to bring emotion to the piece.
The idea behind my movie documents a small child who is both verbally and physically abused by his violent father. The neglected child is depicted as a rag doll; tattered, shabby and unloved. His physical form shows both the bodily and mental scars he endures. He also has a favourite toy, the only thing that he loves, that his father breaks. These two elements inspire the name of the animation, as ‘Broken Toy’. At the end of the piece the neglected child is rescued by the social services. Through these details, I aim to show a troubled situation without using overly graphic or crude references.
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