Title Development

After doing extensive research into typical urban drama film titles we found that the can use a variety of techniques to have an affect on the audience. I have decided to create a survey asking the public a series of questions on what the title should include/be. The key questions that i plan to ask will include:

1) should the title have an obvious link to the storyline?
2) should it be play on words?
3) which drug related title is your favourite?
4) which non-drug related one is your favourite?
5) which one is your overall favourite and why?

I did some research onto drug related terms that might make an affective title for our piece and particularly liked the five:

Comedown
Intoxicant
Joint
Roach
Re-up

I also wanted to look into using some non-drug related words as a title and found that these sounded very appropriate for our trailer:

Destitution
Privation
Depletion
Straits
Exiguity


Results:

From the results it was clear that we should not directly link the title to the narrative but however, should involve a play on words more loosely linked with the genre. 'Comedown' and 'Straits' were by far the most popular choices of title so I weighed up the pros and cons of both. With consideration to these and looking at the results for the final question, i decided that Straits would be the best title for our piece. Not only does it represent the 'dire straits' the protagonist is facing but also is a play on words to the 'straight' lines of cocaine that will feature in the trailer.