Film Title

After mind-mapping several different ideas for our film title with my group, we have come to the conclusion that 'The Intruder' would fit great as it links in to the story of our film - an intruder. The word intruder connotes someone unwelcome - a person who shouldn't be present, and so gives off a sense of fear and fright. Another reason as to why we thought this title was the the best choice was because there are no other films with this title which means that our film can be easily recognised and remembered. This links in to the marketing and promotion of the film making it very effective. I believe that the ideas that we came up with, as you can see above, would have all been good titles for our film, however 'The Intruder' sounded the best.

In order to make the decision fair, we each chose a title that we liked the best without telling each other and wrote it down. When we came together to see what we had each chosen, 'The Intruder' had been voted by three out of our group including myself whilst the other group member voted for 'Trespass'. Although 'Trespass' would have been an effective title for our film, there is already a recent film with this title which was released in 2011 starring Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman. This means that whenever the title was mentioned, a person would automatically think about the 2011 hit film, rather than ours.

To go with the film title, we needed an effective motto/slogan to sell it. I came up with the idea of "Home sweet home" as this has the connotation of a nice and calm atmosphere which makes it even more eerie and effective when used in a horror film. It links also links into the idea of a trespasser at a home, which is exactly what out film is making it even more effective.