And the title is.....

Welcome back guys!! Today we will be talking about the Title. I wanted this topic to be one of the last posts but I just can’t hold it in any longer!! Just to make myself clear, this story is about a psychopath (about our age) who kills his family, and the opening scene is the ending to the film. Know I know what you’re thinking, we basically just gave the ending away.. But it’s not about how the movie ends, it’s about everything that leads up to the ending and all those important parts of the film that portray this psychotic character. After the title shows (which is towards the end of the beginning/middle), we will rewind to a few months earlier and tell the story from there. Get it?


Here is a quote that my group and I will try to accomplish in order for this film to be exactly how we vision it:


“As you transition to the next section of your story the audience should be able to identify the protagonist, what the story is about, the antagonist (villain- not always a person, but represents the opposing threat), and what’s at stake if the protagonist doesn’t succeed at their goal.”


Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for… drumroll please….

IDΣNTITY

Now, before you all get confused, let me explain why my group and I chose this title and how it came to be. The main character of this story isn’t at all normal, he is a psychopath who wants to harm his family and we wanted the title to represent that this kid is not even close to representing normal. In one of my previous blogs some of the names that we got inspiration from was Prisoners, due to the fact that the “O” in prisoners is a symbol that has a lot of meaning to it so we wanted to make it similar.




One thing we knew for sure, was that we would use the Greek capital letter for Sigma, which is the letter E. One day in our AICE Media Studies class, we just thought of names that had the letter E in them so that we could use the Greek letter. Keep in mind, the Sigma E is backwards so it would be facing the other way, not the way it’s facing now. Now why is the greek letter so important? It all goes back to what I said before, the normal letter e is known as “E”, if the audience was to see this letter e “Σ”, they would know that it relates to the film and how it’s not “normal.”


Coming up with this name was a huge deal for us since the title has to represent the story. We are so glad that we’re making progress and keeping you guys happy! Can’t wait to share more with you guys.


Stay tuned for tomorrow!!



Sources:
Screenwriting Structure: Expanding the Beginning, Middle, and End. (2017, January 24). Retrieved from https://www.zacuto.com/screenwriting-structure-jill-remensnyder

Sigma. (2019, March 08). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma

(n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/search?q=prisoners&rlz=1C1NHXL_enUS815US815&oq=prisoners&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1435j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8