Film Titles Evaluation - The Good Daughter

Film Title Evaluation - The Good Daughter

The name that we chose to be the title for our film from the initial three suggestions was 'The good daughter'. We eventually decided to go with this idea as we felt that it definitely had the strongest appeal amongst our group because it strongly suggests both a sense of irony in the sense that she (Isabella) has just killed Joules, and surely committing a murder cannot be a 'good' thing to do. However, we felt the title was clever as it has a double meaning depending on the view you chose to take on it. As well as this sense of irony it creates, it also contradicts itself in the sense that Isabella has followed the orders of her father, making her a very obedient daughter, and therefore through the eyes of her father, a 'good' daughter.
We felt that the title gave very strong connotations of the controlling nature of Christian towards his daughter, highlighting the mass power he has to be able to sway her very actions and decisions. It integrates well the obsessive and controlling nature of the father in just the title, as if almost to be patronising towards her; as if he is actually literally saying 'good girl'. Showing this twisted relationship between them and highlighting the power Christian has over Isabella was a key factor to the choice of using 'The Good Daughter' as our title.

Titles
We in the end decided to choose a bold, white font, all in capitals in which to present our film name and actors names.
We chose white as it shows a clear contrast against the background and is easily readable - black would not be clearly seen, and any other colour would look out of place considering the ambiance of the film, e.g yellow would be far too vibrant.

We chose this bold font as it clearly presents the bold 'no nonsense' approach of Christian, it has more power about it!

We decided against using a calligraphy font as although it presents well the class and etiquette of Isabella and her father, it was very difficult to read on the screen.

Our title 'The Good Daughter' will appear on screen towards the very end of our sequence as Christian's car is shown driving away, whilst crossfading into an extreme close-up of Isabella's face. This is used to literally portray the fact that Christian has got inside his daughter's head and is manipulating her thoughts. The title shall fade in, and then fade out again at this stage.

We decided to call the name of our production group 'Smokescreen Productions' as it has a very mysterious ambiance about the word, and fits in extremely well during the opening shot of Isabella smoking. The title 'Smokescreen Productions' shall fade in and out during the point when Isabella is sitting on the windowsil, fading in amongst the smoke clouds.


















The actors names appear on the screen in a similar fashion during different establishing shots, when the characters are first introduced on screen.

The name of our group as directors also fades in and out after the actors names.