Change of plan-Title

We have decided to change the title of our film, this is because although we like the conventions that were incorporated by "18.2" as previously discussed we felt it was too vague. This was apparent after we filmed our footage for the trailer and started to piece it together. A important convention for a quick teaser trailer as we found from research was to maintain a clear narrative that is easy to understand in such a short space of time as 30 seconds as we saw in some clips. Due to this quick pace of our footage we found it was difficult to convey the relevance of the date in our teaser trailer and we decided that it did not fit with the narrative and would simply confuse the audience rather than adding to it. 

This is when we decided to rethink our title for the trailer, after brainstorming the following we came to a decision:

-Run

-A date with death

-Death date

-4 Strangers

-D.O.B

-Those you trust the most

We decided to use D.O.B which is a synonym for date of birth. Firstly we felt it was visually very effective as it is short and snappy to catch the audiences attention, a convention we liked in 1408 as it had the same effect on us as an audience. Secondly we thought about our narrative and because our 4 strangers which are the victims in our film, are all connected by their date of birth it simply made sense to incorporate a key narrative element into the title of the film as the audience will be able to identify with this, further engaging them with the film we are advertising in our trailer.