Our title ‘Grow Your Own’ came from a member of ours (Olivia) when we were discussing as a group as to what title we should use for our film product. Not only did the title itself sounded colloquial and rough, conforming to the characteristics of the gangsters, we also noticed that there is a euphemism/innuendo meaning it has two connotations. This allowed the audience to decide which way they would like to interpret.
Initially, our film was going to be called ‘Allotment’ (thought by Ella) and the storyline (thought by me) was that the gangsters kill the innocent and use their body parts as a secret to grow their plants well. This would make the audience think that the characters are insane as they would go through all that just to achieve healthy plants. We also came up with names such as ‘Beetroot’ and ‘Flower Pots’ but they were ticked off instantly as the title did not go well with the genre/storyline. The reason as to why we changed our mind and moved onto the title Grow Your Own was because not only was it more effective, we agreed that it would be hard to find an actual allotment that we could film regularly in. The storyline is now based on the main leader and the audience watch how he slowly loses his sanity as he rises in supremacy and status, in which he kills his loyal men one by one.
I believe that our final decision will pay off as we have a clear idea as to how we want the shots and we would not have to find limited, specific locations like an allotment. What I like the most about this title is that it has two connotations; growing weed and emphasis on the pejorative term.
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