02/12/11 - Film title

Until now, creating a film title has not been at the forefront of our minds, and so we thought that it would be smart to think about possible names. As our film trailer is for a thriller trailer that features a girl being kidnapped as her friends search for her, we incorporated this idea into all of the possible names. Below is a mindmap that we drew, featuring the names we have to choose from:

When thinking of possible names, we thought about basic words like 'taken' and 'missing' to get our thought process going, using an online thesaurus to find other words.

Each of us chose two possible titles that we preferred, and these are the six names that we considered using from the mind map. We asked some of our friends who fit the target audience for our film which name they preferred, and created a tally chart to show the results.

I made this results table after entering the data from the tally chart into Microsoft Excel, as I felt displaying it in a bar graph would show the information in a clear and easily understandable way. Contained and The Blame Game were two names that we eliminated after we decided they didn't really fit our movie, and were two of our least favourites. After looking at the results, we decided that we all agreed, along with the participants, that Seized was the name that best suited our thriller film trailer.