Film Title: 'Forlorn Obsession'

Morrighan and I had been discussing possible titles for our film over Facebook since the beginning of our project so that we had considered as many necessary titles as we could. However since I had just finished developing the characters, narrative and plot for the rest of the film and discussed this with Morrighan to see if anything needed changing, it helped us to choose an appropriate title. The title of the film is very important and must be relevant to the content and genre, as this is one of the factors that helps an audience to choose to watch a film.

I researched existing classic American noir titles on Wikipedia, and noticed that the words 'Dark' and 'Stranger' were frequently used. However I feel that they are too stereotypical, and we wanted our film title to be more poetic. They were also not relevant enough to our narrative, which was very psychological and obsessively romantic. Morrighan and I then decided that it would be appropriate for the film title to include the word 'obsession', as both the villain and the anti-hero are obsessed with the femme fatale but in different ways; as the anti-hero is infatuated and obsessive with admiring and protecting her; like a muse, and the villain is obsessed with maintaining an illusion of success after he lost all of his money and selfishly and desperately makes her stay with him. Morrighan suggested 'Sexual Obsession', which is relevant but not appropriate enough to the narrative, as the obsessions are driven by greed or love, but not sex.

We decided that both of the obsessions are desperate, as the anti-hero is desperate for her love, and the villain is desperate for her to help him keep up his successful image. I searched the synonyms of 'desperate on Google and chose the words I liked, which included 'desirous' and 'forlorn'.



We decided that 'forlorn' was the perfect word to use for our title, as both of it's meaning's accurately describe the anti-hero and the villain's different meanings of obsession; the anti-hero's definition is highlighted in yellow and the villain's is highlighted in orange. Therefore our final film title is 'Forlorn Obsession', as it summarises our plot appropriately and relevantly without revealing too much to the audience before watching it. The words also describe our psychological and obsessively romantic theme, and are dystopian and enigmatic to suit our film noir genre.