Choosing a Title

In film, titles hold a lot of power. They can establish the tone, mood, and genre of the story. They can also build excitement for the film impacting its success. After drawing the storyboard, my partners and I realized that we needed to come up with a name for our movie, so we went straight to work and started brainstorming. 

We all agreed that the title should capture the tense tone of the movie based on crime and lies. As we sat in class, we had many ideas. For example: 

• On The Run
• More Than a Witness 
• The Hidden Truth 
• Mendacious

After looking into all of our options, we found that some were already taken by other films, and some didn't feel right. After talking about our ideas and concerns for the title, we finally chose the title Mendacious. The meaning of Mendacious is not telling the truth, lying. We picked that title since it matches the mood of our opening, displays what our film is truly about, and almost foreshadows Ben lying all along. 

All of the films mentioned above, are some of the title ideas that we had but were already taken...

In the end, I'm very happy with the name that we chose for our film. I think it establishes the tone very well and captures the mysterious atmosphere. Can't wait to film our project!