Deciding upon a title of our film.

Film Titling Ideas: Words Meaning/ Why It May Be An Effective Title.

As the Oscars have just passed, I noticed that a lot of the nominated films consisted of titles only containing one or two words, these words neither gave too much away or too little. For example a couple I saw at the Oscars were: Foxcatcher, Boyhood, Birdman and whiplash. This led me to think of others over time, successful films with titles containing a single word or as well as to why this is, I feel it is due to it being short it can be remembered and therefore sticks in the mind, having a good single word is also edgy and can bring more attention to the film. Other successful films with single titles brought me to think about avatar and The Titanic. Both these titles reference the film in a huge way yet do not reveal anything; this is something I want to emulate.

My possible ideas for a title:

Simpatico – Liking or inclination towards something. As the film is about the rivalry between an assassin and a police officer the word itself can describe the situation in an ironic way, as there is clearly not a liking between the two characters.

Mortal Affinity – Mortal: This can mean the causing of death and fatality but can also mean “Subject to death”. Affinity has a very similar meaning to simpatico. Therefore this title implies the liking or fondness towards the idea of death, which suits our assassin character within the film.

Conflict – A much simpler and widely known word when compared to the other ideas, it implies a fight which is fitting for the genre and themes of our film.

Roughhouse – Synonym for roughness connotes violence within our film. Out of these possibilities I dislike this one the most.

Raising Cain – A saying/Verb meaning “To cause Trouble”. This too fits with the idea of a rouge assassin.

Babel – Meaning Confusion, plays upon the elements of the film regarding the enigma created around our assassin character.

Shadow Shot - The double "s" sound of this title connotes danger and itself creates an unnerving sound when said. It also implies the skill of the assassin as they are likened to a shadow.


UPDATE-- We have as a group chosen to go with Shadow Shot, this mainly being because of complication with the meanings of the previous words, i myself would have chosen Babel yet at the time i had not realized this was already an existing film title.