Title Suggestions

Our Top 3 Film Titles – Explained.

1) ‘HIGHER’ – this is a play on the word ‘hire’ as our film is based around a hire car company. It fits the genre because it is quite inconspicuous and it will be clear to the audience that it has relevance once they watch it. As the word itself has several dictionary definitions, it leaves the reader thinking at a first glance.

After asking several people what they thought about it after first hearing it, they gave us several suggestions as a reply. They guessed that the film would include:
-A hierarchy or characters, one main villain or main ‘gangster’.
This relates to our film as their will actually be a distinctive powerful character which will stand out from the rest.
-Drug related
This also relates to our film as gangsters and crime thrillers usually have drugs as a centre point for storylines so we thought it would be important to involve this, it is also an easy and simple prop to use.

2) ‘MANTLE’ – this name began with the idea of crossing over two words and ideas. As our film is going to be British and northern we always had the idea of involving the word ‘Manchester/Madchester’ thus the part ‘Man-‘. When we were generating title ideas we also had the suggestion ‘Metal’, therefore we combined the two to produce ‘MANTLE’. This word, we feel is very fitting because of the way it has been designed and it also has its own connotations.
For example, ‘Mantle’ sounds and looks like ‘Mental’ which is a characteristic of the stereotypical gangster. It also sounds identical to ‘Mantle’ as in the earth’s mantle, this could connote that situations will heat up and there will be fire explosions or fast, sweaty chase scenes.

3) ‘NORTHERN SOUL’ – This name has lots of connotations and is very fitting for our film. It fits the industry, our location and the characters. We know it is from a retro era so we would make it modernised, but nowadays the idea of ‘Northern Soul’ is very much back to life with clothes shops and music events, therefore many people could relate to it.
Northern soul emerged from the 60’s in a mod era, in the mod era there was lots of conflict between other gangs such as punks, which can relate to the tension between groups of people in our own production.
Northern will clearly be relating to our location of the Northwest.
Soul itself is a very mysterious and eerie word, this gives off negative connotations which gangster life may bring. The soul is seen as the centre of the body so is a prized possession of any human therefore would be something you want to protect, protection is a massive theme with the gangster scene so it can link to our production in that way.