Help me choose a title

[Larry Rutledge]

I think those who have been commenting missed an important point in the original post. This was a desire to come up with a Working Title. Something to call the project while in the early development/writing stages.

It is not uncommon to give a project a working title, both to give it something to be referred to as and also to help the writer keep focused on the project at hand. The title should be something that reminds the writer what their ultimate story goal is. That doesn't mean it can't be something as simple as the word "Drift"...if that triggers the emotions/images in his/her mind then it is doing its job.

The Final Title doesn't normal emerge until the post production process, at which time the marketing machine begins. At that point the title is easier to come up with because the story/characters/etc are well, completely defined.

Just my $0.01 9/10

Peace,
Larry

 

[Zak Forsman]

that's true, larry. perhaps i should have emphasized the point a bit in the original post. both Heart of Now and Drift strike at the essence of the form and content of this (as of yet unproduced) film. i threw in "Melancholy" because my girlfriend liked it. right now, all my folders and files are labelled "Drift / Heart of Now" and I wanted to pick one. Drift is definitely the more commercial sounding of the two to my ears and will have more broad appeal. Heart of Now, i like because its a bit of a puzzle. that, and I like how the words look together visually -- not very writerly, i know. and it almost sounds like the name of a documentary.

anyway, maybe i haven't decided. my writing partner emailed me this morning to say he can't stop thinking about Heart of Now, as a title. which was my first choice. for the hell of it, alternate to the poster design....