Initial film title ideas.

Film title ideas.

To get a better understanding of how to come up with a good, effective title for my film, I used a search engine. I found nine things that I should consider when thinking about making my own;

1. The shorter the better.

2. The title should hint at the genre of the film. Do this well and the second question people usually ask (what’s the genre?) is answered implicitly.

3. The title is a sales tool designed to get people to read the script, rent the film or ask for more information. It is NOT an artistic statement (think more craft than art).

4. More often than not, your title will be accompanied by a short pitch or key artwork. This should all work in harmony and feel like a component part of a whole and well rounded concept.

5. You will NEVER be 100% happy with the title. It always feels like a bit of a compromise. And why shouldn't it? You are reducing 100 pages of story to a single word of phrase.

6. Once you decide on a title, if a better one comes along, use it. You are NEVER wedded to the title until the film is complete. Ideally get it right up front, but DON’T hold on to a poor title if a new and better one comes along.

7. Don’t be clever. Titles are not something to be figured out. As film makers, we might like the idea of a title being a mystery or ephemeral, but audiences will just move right on by if they don’t ‘get it’ immediately.

8. The title should infer the central conflict of the film… ‘Jaws’ (the shark is going to eat people), ‘The Exorcist’ (there’s going to be an exorcism), or more recently the man who renamed serial killer horror movie ‘The Hollow’ to ‘Don’t Let Him In’.

9. Above all, ‘do what it says on the tin’. The title should honestly and succinctly reflect the story.

My Ideas; 

The Honeymoon
The Honeymare
Escaped
Happy Never After
Till Death Do Us Part
The Hike
Who's There?
There's somebody out there?!
Help! 
Doomed

From the above, I've decided to go for 'Till Death Do Us Part'. I think that its appropriate for both the story line and the horror genre of my trailer as they characters have just got married.