Research Film Titles

Due to the high demand of changing the name our trailer, Nicole and I decided that we should start to research and suggest new names that would do our trailer justice. In our Vox Pop, we asked questions such as: Do you think the name “Hostage” for a film is effective or too cliché? And for this, the replies were very similar in the effect that our target audience thought that it was so common for a film and in addition to this, there is another horror-thriller named Hostage as well. Another of our questions were: Out of the following, which is the scariest?

1. The Woman in Black
2. Hostel
3. Fright Night
4. 7500
5. Hostage

The most popular scary film was The Woman in Black and Hostage and therefore seeing as people find them scary, we wanted to also add elements of this to our trailer, but if we kept the name “Hostage” for our trailer than we wouldn’t be unique, because our target audience would have already watched it. They would make assumptions that it would be very similar. Therefore we wanted to differentiate ourselves and make ourselves diverse in a way. As a result of this Nicole researched relevant names for our trailer, and she came up with the following:

• Let the Right One In
• The Collector
• The Tortured
• Eye for an Eye
• Vendetta
• Death Becomes Her
• Slaughter

I then thought that the best and effective name for our trailer would be either Eye for an Eye or Death Becomes Her, because firstly Eye for an Eye basically sums up exactly what our trailer will involve seeing as the killer is out to get the wife. However, I also liked the name Death becomes her, seeing as the whole family were murdered and now the last one standing is the wife in which death in a literal and metaphorical sense becomes her. After having researched the titles, we also thought that a slogan would fit nicely for our poster as well as to capture the essence of the trailer without giving anything away. Nicole then researched diverse slogans that would benefit our trailer. She came up with the following:

• Fear can keep you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
• Trapped in Time. Surrounded by Evil.
• His deadly past becomes her cruel reality.

After deliberation, Nicole and I thought that the best slogans were: “Fear can keep you prisoner. Hope can set you free” and “His deadly past becomes her cruel reality”. However Nicole and I haven’t decided yet but we have to choose very soon seeing as we have to design our title for our poster and trailer.