Analysis and Justification of film title

Within our group, there was debate about the appropiate name for our film. Originally, we had planned to call the film Pursuit; this is because the remainder of our film is based on Trevor's (the character who died in our opening) brother being in "pursuit" of the people that did this to his twin brother. Therefore, this would be an effective and clear title and relates well to the content of our film.

However, in the process of filming and developing our production, the idea that Trevor's brther John would be extremely angered and not feel remorse towards his brothers killers made us as though our title should be dedicated to his characters feelings instead of his actions. Therefore, we began to search around for words that could demonstrate feelings of hatred towards a group of people yet still have the same amount of appeal to our audience and the thriller genre.

Primarily, we established two titles Revenge & game of hate. We believed these to be effective titles based on the fact that John is clearly out for revenge of the people that did this to his brother and game of hate symbolises John's attempt to find these killers relating to the word game and hate lies in the idea that John hates these people as his motives are to hunt them down and ultimately take their lives. However, we believed these titles to be rather simplistic after discussion and felt that we could improve the complexity and increase curiosity within our audience with titles that they might not have come across before. Also, we realised that these titles as well as Pursuit did not relate to the feelings of our main character John.

This is when we began to debate the titles Rancour and Animus. We were understanding that people may not have heard of these words before and thus would increase intruge within our audience where they can research the words and then relate the meaning to the content of the film. Having the similar meanings of, "A feeling of ill will arousing active hostility," both words are relevant to the content of our film where John feels ill will towards his brother's killers and arousing active hostility is a reflection of his actions.  We concluded that both these titles were strong and effective in relation to our media production.

We then conducted a group vote and 2 of us out of 3 prefered Animus to Rancour based the pronounciation of the word and how it sounds and thus we proceeded and named our film Animus.

Overall, I believe this to be a very effective title and believe it justifies the content and storyline of our media product.