The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

What’s In A Title?

I confess. I struggle with titles. They may well be the most important marketing & discovery elements of a film. But they are more too. The best titles are akin to lines of poetry that evoke other feelings and thoughts, while uniting them around the work in question.

I have mused and ranted about titles before, but well they say that a pictures is worth a 1000 words, so this is 80,000 words in titles.

Thanks to NewYork mag’s VULTURE for this tip.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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