Title of the Film Opening

Now that the storyboard is finished for the film opening, it's time to move on to creating some various details of the opening, like a name for the main protagonist and the title. Right now, Farjad and I came up with a title for the opening that we think is great, it's called "Redemption." I think that this title suits the film opening really well as the word redemption basically means to get something back again. In the case of the film opening, our main protagonist is getting back to the athletic form that he was once at before his horrible injury.

While looking up the word "redemption," I found out that there was a recently released movie also called "Redemption" in 2013. I was wondering if movies could share the same name if they were completely unrelated to each other, so did some research on it. An article written by Jonathan Handel (you can read it here) explains how a movie title can be the same if the it the title is one word or relatively short, such as "Gravity." However, if a movie has a title like "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars" and is completely unrelated to the actual "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars," the maker of the movie will most likely get sued with the claim that they are using a well established brand to "piggy-back" off of their success and cause consumer confusion. I believe that having redemption as our title wouldn't be really intrusive on the other film called "Redemption" because its a one-word title and isn't an established brand like "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars."

Works Cited

1. Handel, J. (2014, August 13). Trademarking Movie Titles. Retrieved March 22, 2018, from http://www.jhandel.com/news/2014/8/13/trademarking-movie-titles