Ideas for Film Name, Tagline and Magazine Name

Ideas for Film Name, Tagline and Magazine Name

Film Name Ideas

• The Taylor's Curse
• The Spirit Within 
• The Toy box 
• Curse 
• Devil's Toy 
• Curse of the Box 
• The Devil's Toy box

In order to find out which film name best appealed to the audience my group and I carried out a questionnaire. We found that 'Devil's Toy' had the highest impact upon our target audience. This was found as it suggests that the main character is sort of toy in the devil's plan. The idea that our narrative idea is about a jack in the box and its a toy fits well as a name for our film. We found that most of the other film names were a little to long and did not seem to be catchy and they gave a little too much away. For instance 'Curse of the box', this just reinforces the narrative idea of the film narrative in the title giving no room of imagination on the audiences behalf. Some may even see is as predictable, which is not what will appeal to an audience. We found that with 'Devil's Toy' were highlight the unknown factor of how we cannot always see the devil and are not aware when or if we may be controlled by him. This makes the title seem vulnerable and intriguing as well as ensuring attention for the audience.   

Questionnaire 

1. Out of the following examples of film names which best appeals to you? 

• The Taylor's Curse 
• The Spirit Within 
• The Toy box 
• Curse 
• Devil's Toy 
• Curse of the Box 
• The Devil's Toy box

2. Why? 

Tagline Ideas

• Evil lives inside 
• Evil lurks inside
• When evil comes to play 
• He'll play havoc with your soul 
• Nothing is innocent 
• You are the puppet 
• Are you the Toy? 
• You become the Toy 
• Anyone can Play? 
• Do you want to play? 

With finding which tagline is suited to our film. My group and I narrowed down the list into four taglines that we thought relate best to our film narrative these were: 

• When evil comes to play 
• Nothing is Innocent 
• Anyone can play
• Do you want to play? 

In conclusion through many hours of thought and opinion of our target audience we found that 'When evil comes to play', was the most effective tagline that links with our film name. The tagline is fitting as the narrative is about a child playing with a Jack in a box and getting possessed. It's catch short and too the point where the audience is left to wonder what exactly the tagline connotes. Therefore keeping the main focus of the audience on the narrative. For the rest of our tagline ideas we thought we could embed the statements into our trailer as they seemed appropriate. 

Questionnaire 

3. Out of the following tagline's which do you think best appeals to you?  

• When evil comes to play 
• Nothing is Innocent 
• Anyone can play
• Do you want to play? 

Film Magazine Name 

• Feature Film 
• Flick 
• Motion 
• Photo Play 
• Filmography 
• Studio 
• Big Screen 
• Movie Hub 
• Movie House 
• Theater 
• Visual 
• Arena 
• Motion Hub 

The film magazine we found to be the most challenging in terms of creating a masthead, this is because we did not want to seem common or predictable. Therefore when coming up with a masthead we related it cinematography and and theater.Through carrying out a survey to our target audience we found a tie between 'Motion' and 'Studio'. Our final decision for the masthead was 'Motion' we felt it was a simple yet effective term. The definition 'Motion' is defined as the power of movement. In relation to media the word 'Motion' links with the term 'Motion Picture' which is associated with cinema and the filming industry.

Question 

4. Between these two terms which is more effective to you? 

• Motion 
• Studio

5. Why?

By conducting these surveys we gained an insight into what our Target Audience likes the most but also gave us an understanding into what name was the most effective and meaningful. This process has been very valuable and without it the names we would have chose would not have been as meaningful or effective for our Target Audience.