Titles of thrillers

Title
The plot of our film is about a young boy who is kidnapped by a mentally ill woman whose own son died the year before.

Before we thought of names, we made a spider diagram about what we wanted from our name:

From this, we managed to come up with 6 ideas for names which we felt covered most of the points we wanted.

1.Little Star
We thought this might be a good title because in our film opening we are planning to have sound effects of a child singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.

2.Hide and Seek
This idea behind this title is that in our film we are planning to have the child being kidnapped when the child and his parents are playing hide and seek.

3.Number Game
We also thought that this may be a good title because of when they are playing hide and seek because we plan to have a shot of the child counting and then more sound effects of somebody repeatedly saying ‘1,2,3,4,5’.

4.Taken
We thought this might be a good title because it is simple and it indicates what happens in the film.

5.Kidnapped
This is another title, which we may use because it is also simple and indicates clearly what happens in the film.

6. Silent Night
We thought this would be a good title because it suggests the silence the parents endure during the night when their child has been kidnapped, and sounds mysterious like a thriller.

We asked 30 people that fell into our target audience category which title they preferred and came up with these results:

These results show that the most popular name was 'Silent Night'. I think this is because it is an original name, as we recently discovered some of the other names such 'Taken' and 'Hide and Seek' have already been used for thrillers; however this confirms that they were good ideas for titles. I think 'Kidnapped' got the least votes because it isn't subtle enough as thriller titles often are. I think the idea behind 'Little Star' was good which is why we had 6 votes, but I don't think it sounds fitting enough for a thriller. Due to the results from our questionnaire, we have chosen 'Silent Night' for the title for our thriller.