Title blues

Before I can start working on the website for my film, I have to first create the poster so that I can use its visuals to lay out the site. I also decided to finish the poster and site for the most part before I finish up editing: I’ve cut and gone through enough footage to understand the basic outline of the premise and what I should be focusing on when marketing the production. In addition, the editing comes easy to me - I generally don’t stress over doing it or lack ideas/motivation with it. For this reason, I want to save it for last, knowing that I’ll be able to get it done no matter what, rather than save the “harder” portion for the end and risk cramming. Sort of like saving the best for last.

While starting on my poster, I realized that if I’m going to create a minimalist poster - it’s nearly impossible to do so without having a title. Here’s the basic structure that I came up with so far, just for an idea:

It’s obviously very basic and not even close to filled in, but that’s what I’m going for when I say minimalistic; and you can see how empty it is without a title. Granted, I am terrible at coming up with titles, and have been putting off this stage quite frankly. To come up with some ideas, I went to IMDB.com and scrolled through the “Genre: Documentary” portion to come up with some ideas. So far, I came up with:

• Clothing: Made In Expression (inspired by O.J.: Made In America)
• Made In Expression (also inspired by O.J., as well as a play on “MADE IN CHINA” on clothing tags)
• Expression (minimal title, inspired by films such as 13th and Dancer)
• Appearance (minimal)
• Eccentric Expression (alliteration, because why not)
• Artificial Appearances (alliteration)

I’ll probably end up trying out all of these titles, as well as any others that I come up with, on the poster and choosing whichever seems to fit best.