Film Title Possibilities

Throughout the day we had been conscious and thinking about a film title. Looking at the film from beginning to end no longer had impact for ourselves who had watched it so many times. We spent a long time brain storming thinking of definitions for the word melancholy, descriptive words for what in our film and appropriate song lyrics. Denis suggested we look at the stills from our film, currently in the process of being made into a look book. Here are our favorite ideas:

• Calming storm (alot of these are titles from MUSE songs-our chosen music for the film)
• Calm before the storm
• Comfort in sand
• Butterflies and Hurricanes
• Lucid Dreams
• Tied up
• Love Blind
• Blinding love or Blind love
• Touch the Sky
• Losse control
• Platinium Blind
• Eye of the storm
• Calming of the storm (this is a favourite so far...)
• Melancholic romance (this is too obvious, we want something more subtle)
• Metamophesis
• A state of Melancholy
• Unrequested Love (this is too historical and old-fashioned)
• Calming the storm (THIS IS OUR FAVOURITE)

Looking through the least thinking about the film, its press release and the relation to promoting Marko Mitanovski, 'Calming of The Storm' felt most appropriate as a punchy title that said enough about our film . Using a title with the obvious words or theme of melancholy and love loss was not a direction we wanted to take. Our title needed to be mysterious mimicking the start of our film (a dramatised gothic silhouette with an avant guard a hair piece loyal to Marko) and also the sound tracks eeriness. Who is the character? is the question we are trying to show. The visuals of the film mirror this filming also with scenery, props, and noises. 

The imagery build up the initial confusion and mystery for the audience to wonder what is happening and see how the scenes join as a narrative. The title is true to the clothing and the films narrative, dark to light clothing dark to light emotions. The metaphor in the title is that the character is actually calming her own storm down, from sorrowful longing and anger to peace and reflection, from her desire and yearning of our designer and his creations. 

The word 'STORM' reflects a mood, that is mysterious, and sombre in the black grey clouds that come with a storm, and our continuoius reference to black and white colour through our film. Therefore the clouds can easily represent Camber Sands, the melancholic setting, and the romatic/beautiful sky after a storm when everything is clearing and light is shining, (as it literally does in a scene of our film.)

Heidi and I think our title works really well and i am quite happy to now for get about our film for a while and come back to it and be surprised by it!