A Nice Ring To It

I would like to pop in to give a quick update!

As Clara and I continue to progress in our portfolio project, we have realized we are at an appropriate spot where we have gathered enough information for our desired plot to establish a title. Although to an untrained mind, coming up with a title for a movie, or television show, or even a book may seem so incredibly easy. However, I think most of us are able to understand that it is quite the opposite. When attempting to come up with a title, Clara and I want to create something that, well, has a nice ring to it. Ideally, we want out title to establish a generalized concept of what our movie would be about without giving too much away. We want consumers to read our title and instantly become intrigued. We wouldn't want it to be too complex where people wouldn't become interested and wouldn't look into our new hypothetical movie after hearing what it is called. 

After understanding what we wanted the premise of our movie to be, we began brainstorming. We want the speculative remainder of our film to focus on the relationship between the two officials I had discussed within my previous blog posts. This is why we decided we want to place such heavy emphasis on the dynamic they have right from the very beginning, not only establishing their connection, but the relevance of it. In our cold open styled film introduction, one officer (I am using this term loosely because I am unsure if I want them to be police officers or another official) recommends to take this good cop/bad cop approach in order to crack the case of the criminal that they are interrogating. After some research, we discovered that the specific name of this method is called the reid technique. By definition, the reid technique is a method commonly used by police officers where a high pressure environment is created, typically done by "the bad cop", which is then followed by sympathy on behalf of "the good cop". This method was coined by John E. Reid in the 1940's. I had minor background on this information because I did learn about this psychologist in my AP psychology class, however, to expand our knowledge further, we continued research. Click here to read more information on this popular technique that we had landed upon, but here is a brief summary from the website: 

We can hear it now: "The Reid Technique, coming to a theater near you"... Clara and I quite literally jumped at choosing this for our title just because it so perfectly fits everything we have been looking for. The title itself seems so simple, yet there is so much to unpack from it. This title seamlessly encompasses the exact dynamic we were going for between two of the main characters and how they work to solve problems throughout the movie. Short and sweet, sophisticated yet simple. Chef's kiss! 

(Week 4: 2/28-3/6, post 1)