Choosing a title

I have brainstormed a number of different titles that I could use for the trailer. The name of the media I think needs to incorporate both horror and comedy elements into the title, to make the genre of the trailer immediately clear for the audience. Some of my ideas include:

-Troll of the Dead
-Sore
-The Silence of the Lads
-Psychopath
-Jaw

Most of these names rip off of other horror franchises such as "Jaws," "The Silence of the Lambs," and the "Saw," franchise. From doing my research into the comedy-horror genre I can see that other films do this as well, such as "Shaun of the Dead." I feel this is done to simply show the combining of the horror and comedy genre, and to make it instantly clear to the audience what the genre of the film is. The reason these film names are comical are because they are clearly making fun of the films from the horror genre by taking the film title and abruptly changing it to make it sound somewhat ridiculous. For example a film titled "Shaun of the Dead," is unlikely to be a serious horror flick, neither a film called "Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein." I have incorporated these ideas into my own possible titles, for example with "The Silence of the Lambs," and "The Silence of the Lads."

After deciding that I would name my trailer "The Silence of the Lads," I investigated some fonts to use on Premier Pro. Fonts that I have investigated for the title include the "Superclarendon," font, the "Nanum Brush Script," and the "Trattatello," font.


Superclarendon font

Nanum Brush Script font














Trattatello font