17 February 2013

Evaluation: The Title of the Film

"In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

From day one, we decided that our film would not have an overly generic title such as 'Crossfire' or 'Red Handed', so we opted for a more interesting concept. We had worked on a number of titles before the storyline behind the film had even been conceived. One of those titles was 'Sins of the Martyr', which I had created as a play on the idiom 'sins of the father'. When I initially proposed the title to my fellow director, he dismissed the idea as I had simply replaced the 'word' father with 'martyr', but as we began to delve deeply into the connotations of the title, we began to see that any other title would pale in comparison. The title worked with the themes of the film on so many levels, as well as being relatively short and exciting, with a similar sound to the titles of the James Bond films, creating an engima as to what the 'sins' were and who the 'martyr' was. One problem we did encounter was that the majority of our cast and crew was unable to pronounce the word 'martyr' thus extensive training sessions, teaching them the correct pronunciation, were required. Overall, we are both highly satisfied with our title and its originality.