Title

In most opening scenes of films, the title of the film appears in several places (with some specific film exceptions); we realised, in the middle of when we were editing that our film didn't have a title. We begun looking through lists of Thriller films [http://www.imdb.com/genre/thriller] to find trends in the names of the films. From this, we found:

Thriller titles are short, and give you an insight into one significant, yet possibly small aspect of the film. Examples of this are Super 8 (2011, dir. J.J. Abrams) as the title is a type of motion picture recording film, specifically used in the 1970's. From the "Super 8" title, you could deduce that in the film, there is a video camera used within the plot and the film is probably set in the 1970's. Another similar example is the film Twister (1996, dir. Jan de Bont) which you can tell simply from the title, that the film regards a hurricane or similar, but that is the only information given.

Thriller titles also often are single words, or short phrases. This is possibly to intensify the mystery that is present within Thrillers, with the lack of information. This is also present in all genres of film titles, as the shorter a title is, generally, the more it sticks in your mind- therefore filmmakers try to avoid using long titles. There are numerous examples within Thrillers of this: Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock); Transformers (2007, dir. Micheal Bay); Jaws (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg);

Thriller titles sometimes also include something different in the name, this distances the films concepts away from the audience, as they are something different to what the audience normally expects. It also makes the film distinctive and stick in your mind more. Some examples are Se7en (1995, dir. David Fincher) which is about hunting a serial killer that works around the seven deadly sins. the numerical 7 in the title makes the title stand out and emphasises that the concept of seven [deadly sins] is particularly prominent. Another example would be Inception (2010, dir. Christopher Nolan) as before this film was released, inception was a fairly unheard of word, making it a memorable and unusual title.

From these things, Nadine and I came up with a few possible titles to call our film.

Gavyn
we thought this because it is a unique way of spelling Gavin (our leading actors name). But after looking at some baby names websites, (http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Gavyn) we discovered that this wasn't as such a unique spelling as we'd thought, and was actually relatively modern and common. As this took away the distinctiveness of the titles, we decided it wasn't as effective as we first thought.

Full Blast
We thought this title suggested action, and could also suggest explosions within the narrative. We thought conceptually this is a good title, but possibly slightly more what you would expect from an action/adventure opposed to thriller. We inserted this title into the transition within the production, but using all the fonts we had available, the title didn't look right. So we decided to discard this one, and think again of some more titles.


Inspector
I came up with this idea; I thought it was good because of the possibility of the job interview being an Inspector, or there being an inspection of the characters death. This ties in also with the Thriller and Film Noir themes. It also fits with the one word convention for titles, along with familiarising with one aspect of the plot. The title isn't particularly distinctive, but with the absence of 'the' before 'inspector' makes it more distinctive than it would of been with it. Also, even though the title suggests some narrowing of the narrative, it is still a very conventional thriller film title, and could be related to almost any film that meets the codes and conventions of a thriller film.