Title and Logo Ideas

Title

Possible names for our film so far have been ‘Burning in the Skies’ which resembles the nuclear missiles and explosions tearing through the sky, also signifying the end of time. ‘Burning Jacobs Ladder’ was another name we had as Jacobs ladder was a ladder to heaven which the Patriarch Jacob dreamt about, therefore the burning can symbolise the severed connection from heaven as well as connoting the nuclear explosions once again. ‘Crack the Sky’ was the other possible name we came up with as nuclear war has effects on the atmosphere and the disruption it has had on civilisation.

Other names in which we came up with, but aren’t using are ‘Beyond the dying light, fading light, fifteen winters, 23:57, minutes to midnight, the birth and death of a day, shadow of the sun, solitary wasteland and shadow of the day’

Production Logo

For our production logo, we have had ideas of having the progression of man from apes with it ending in a man with a gas mask on. This would then show how we have evolved from apes towards men but, the gas mask would suggest that we have progressed into war or inhospitable conditions due to the connotations linking towards gas mask  Therefore this links well with the genre of our film with it being a post-apocalyptic. If we used this logo idea, a possible title of our film could be ‘Revolution’, but with the ‘R’ added as if it was added or graffiti’d on.

Another idea for a production logo is that it shows a man removing his face with something else inside of it. This is quite surreal and disturbing as the face is merely acting as mask for something controlling it deeper inside. Not only does it evoke a neurotic and dark nature but it is also open to multiple interpretations that can all essentially correspond with the film genre we are making; the dark nature of it would link well with our film trailer, but would also be able to link to other films easily due to it having no distinctive links with other genres. If this logo idea is used, we could use the title ’big empty’, ‘host’, or ‘writer’s bloc productions’ etc. as they can all relate to the logo in some way. The ‘writers bloc’ also plays on ironic humour slightly as it suggests the production group are lacking imaginative and fresh ideas, yet they have mustered up an entire feature with an accompanying trailer.