Planning • Choosing A Film Title

To make sure that I am fully engaging with the films detailing, I needed to think about which film title would appeal to my target demographic from the follow options:

It was important to get feedback from those I am aiming to sell my film to as I wanted it to sound like something they wanted to see. I loved all my titles for different reasons and didn't know which effect would work best on an audience, so I sent out my synopsis along with the list of titles and asked 81 people for their initial response to the titles. I gave a variety of choices to give them as much option as possible and recorded the feedback in the order I got it. The list goes as followed:

*Brackets are what people gave as feedback with their choice of title

• Departed
• Departed
• Her
• Her
• Among Us ("Good")
• Mortal Part ("Good")
• Small Hours
• Embodyment
• Deceased
• Emolument
• Earth Angel
• Bloodless
• Small Hours
• Among Us ("Sounds like a great story I'd love to see it")
• Among Us ("100% sounds like something I'd want to see, seems like a good plot, sounds sweet, will you invite me to the academy awards when your film becomes a best seller!?")
• Earth Angel
• Earth Angel
• The Within
• Mortal Part ("I like a lot, sounds like a sick movie, can it be real please?")
• Departed
• Among Us
• Her ("Good name")
• Earth Angel ("Makes our love sound evil")
• Her ("Simple yet sweet")
• Among Us ("100% gets my vote")
• Earth Angel ("Female appeal from the romantic twist")
• Earth Angel
• Among Us ("Sounds awesome")
• Among Us ("Because her spirit is still among us in the real world, it sounds like the best film")
• The Within ("Works well")
• Bloodless
• Departed
• Small Hours
• Celestial
• Departed
• Celestial
• Among Us
• Small Hours
• Small Hours
• Emolument
• Mortal Part
• Bloodshed
• The Within
• Among Us
• Earth Angel
• Celestial ("I like")
• Small Hours ("I like")
• Departed
• Lifeless ("Sounds really catchy, sounds like an amazing film I'd love to watch it!")
• Earth Angel
• Small Hours
• Departed ("Really cool idea, would want to see this for sure.")
• Mortal Part ("Would definitely pay to see this!")
• Lifeless ("Why can't this be made into a real film!?")
• Among Us ("I like it")
• Her
• Earth Angel ("I'd go for this in the cinema!")
• Heavenly Body ("I really like this")
• Earth Angel ("It's pure, pure and heavenly with dark underneaths!")
• Departed ("sounds like a good story line!")
• Her
• Her
• Her
• Earth Angel
• Earth Angel
• Deceased
• Small Hours
• Deceased
• Small Hours
• Departed
• Lifeless
• Celestial ("I really like the sound of this")
• Small Hours ("From the name it sounds like it will be a great film")
• The Within
• Earth Angel
• Lifeless
• The Within
• Celestial
• Emolument ("Sounds really sick!")
• Small Hours
• Departed
• Departed
• Departed ("I like one word titles")

Although it wasn't one of my options 3 people chose 'Emolument' which was interesting, however the words is about your salary and income through employment, so it doesn't suit my film.

I then noted these down into a simple tally chart and took a photo of it:

I then took the tally chart to create a pie chart online, using a free web tool to design my own colours etc with all the information.