Film Titles - Research

The Task - For this task before we could come up with our own film title for our main video task we had to research other film titles and see what they would have been called, why they choose that name, if it changed in other countries e.t.c. We were given a list of film titles to research so it would be easier to look for that film title and then we choose our own for our genre (Horror)

List of Film Titles :  From this list of films each member of the group took two titles each.

• Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
• Quantum of Solace
• Return of the Jedi
• Licence to Kill
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Silver Linings Playbook.

I choose to look at Return of the Jedi and Licence to Kill. My own film titles I looked at was Scream and The Blair Witch Project.

Return of the Jedi - I didn't find out much about the title of the film but I did find out a bit of information about the title this was:

• The film was called 'Blue Harvest' to hide it from snoopers
• It was inspired by 'Red Harvest' by Dashiell Hammet
• It was going to be called 'Revenge of the Jedi'

Licence to Kill - For this film title I found out alot more about the title I think it might of been because it is a popular James Bond film this was:

• The first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming title
• 'Licence to Kill' is a phrase commonly used in books, however the story is based from 'Live and Let Die
• Orginally called 'Licence Revoked'
• Reason for the title change was to avoid confusion with the 1981 Bond novel 'Licence Renewed'
• Another reason is it meant losing one's driving privileges in the USA
• After a minor controversy as to whether the British or American spelling of the word licence (Licence and License) which would be used in the title, the British won (Lincence)

Scream - I choose this film title because I remeber seeing something about the film title being changed this was:

• It was going to be called 'Scary Movie' but it was changed to 'Scream'
• 'Stab' is the name of the movie in the movie which is based on the events happening in the movie.

The Blair Witch Project - I choose because I thought it was a classic horror movie and that it might have a bit more on the title, unfortunaly there was only one thing I can find that was:

• It was orginally going to be called 'The Black Hills'