Refining Film Title Ideas

After completing our title research, we had around five ideas for what the title of our opening could be, according to the plotline. As we were putting our clips together though, we realised that to build our character profile effectively and to make the scene as obvious as possible, a split personality would be harder to represent. As a result we changed the idea of our opening slightly, now instead of a split-personality wherein our actress is haunting herself, she is now terrified that her twin who died prior to this event is following her around.

This led to us narrowing down our film title choices down to three candidates:

• Psychosis
• Idiosyncrasy
• Non Compos Mentis

Out of these three the one that stood out the most was "Non Compos Mentis" meaning: 'not of sane/stable mind'.

This is the title we have decided to use and we are going to overlay text of the title and the opening credits during the first longer clip of our main character crying. During this quick cut montage, we plan to have the name of the film appear in the centre of the screen and then as that fades out we will have the credits at the bottom of the screen during the entire duration of this clip.
We believe that this is more accurate to the genre of a psychological horror as the name in itself sparks an interest into what the film is going to be about, by having it at the beginning overlaid on one of our effective clips, it should appear creepy and engaging.

Title Ideas...

What are our ideas based on?

Due to us having concluded our plot for our opening sequence, we have understood that we are creating a psychological horror based on the concept of a girl suffering with schizophrenia.

Therefore the following titles are based on this dual personality, or visage idea, where she can see people or think thoughts that are either not there or true, hence when she finally sees herself (or more specifically her darker unconscious).

Our ideas

• Psychosis- " a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with reality."

• Idiosyncrasy- " a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual."

• Psychoneurotic- (in reference to psychoneurosis) " a neurosis based on emotional conflict in which an impulse that has been blocked seeks expression in a disguised response or symptom."

• Aberrant- "diverging from the normal type" "departing from an accepted standard." 

• Non Compos Mentis- "not sane or in one's right mind."

• Capriciousness- (in reference to capricious) " adjective to describe a person or thing that's impulsive and unpredictable"

• Dichotomy- " a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different."