Finding a Title

During the course of this project, I have always had an idea of the name of my product - The Recruit - as this is the name I have used to envisage not just the narrative of the opening sequence, but of what the story in the whole film, if there was one, would be.

I wasn't too sure how others would see it though. So after showing 15 people in the target audience clips from my opening sequence, I gave them the option of 5 titles for the movie. These were:

Way Of Life
The Recruit
A New Job
Occupation
Friend Or Foe

The results of this short survey were:

The Recruit (9 votes)
Way of Life (3 votes)
Friend Or Foe (2 votes)
Occupation (1 vote)
A New Job (0 votes)

So the title of my film is going to be The Recruit, which was my first choice - and fortunately that of others too.

I created a title frame to put into my opening sequence with Adobe Photoshop which I then put into place on iMovie.

Also, I remembered that in my research I found that the production company usually has their signature logo/clip at the beginning of their films. These companies are often big Hollywood institutions, or their subsidiaries, who produce a wide variety of movies of different genres. So I have decided to create my own. I chose the name SFproductions (as these are my initials) and created a logo in Photoshop, to which I added a soundpiece in iMovie. Most production company clips have a recognised soundtrack to it (such as the 20th Century Fox fanfare, and the sound Cinergi use which we saw in the Die Hard III opening sequence). The sound I chose to use is of a radio searching for a channel, and I thought it fitted in with the logo.