AS Media - Conventional Slasher Film Names

The brief:

- To research, evaluate and come up with conventional slasher film names

Names in the past 20 years:

Scream 4
House of wax
Cherry Falls
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
High Tension
Scream 3
Hatchet
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Freddy vs Jason
Urban Legend
Scream 2
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Scary Movie
Friday 13th
The Nightmare on Elm Street
Sorority Row

Conventional Aspects:

- Very short and concise
- To the point
- Representative of what happens
- Self explanatory
- Simplistic
- Explicit (in regards to telling what will happen)
- Explanatory of the narrative
- Usually shows what type of murder/killer is involved in the movie

Our own title ideas:

- EYE Spy

- Watched

- Silent Killer

Evaluation:

- EYE Spy

+ve's

Supported the idea of someone being watched or stalked
children's game - contrapuntal
makes something innocent into something sinister
the use of the word eye makes it a play on words which is very conventional

-ve's

can be seen as unconventional as it is not as explicit as other titles
more so appeals to the spy genre than a slasher sub genre
doesn't allow for much experimentation with typography due to the shape of most of the letters
doesn't work with the content in the opening scene as it isn't directly linked to the action on screen

- Watched

+ve's

Simplistic and one word
is useful for epigraphy manipulation and creation as the letter shapes allow for a lot more creativity such as an eye in the "a" "e" or "d" making it more versatile
Conventional as it is short
the word links to the idea of predatory or stalking motif

-ve's

slightly tenuous link to the killer type and method of killing
isn't explicit enough for the method of killing or killer type
doesn't describe the narrative as well as it could
is a bit limiting in terms of "doing what it says on the tin" which is what most slasher films do

- Silent Killer

+ve's

Simplistic
explicit
does what it says on the tin
helpful with letter structure for the smoke effect/idea (image)
genre specific - slasher
conventional as it describes the killer/ his method of killing and narrative is linked into it
describes what you will see and hear in the film

-ve's

isn't as short as we would have liked
not too outstanding of a name/is quite plain