Final Title. . .

Sundays Child poem AKA Mondays child

Mondays child is fair of face, Tuesdays child is full of grace, Wednesdays child is full of woe, Thursdays child has far to go, Fridays child is loving and giving, Saturdays child works hard for his living, And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

The name of our production relates both to the religious and childhood focus of our film plot.

The name is influenced by the nursery rhyme above, intended to teach children the days of week. ‘Sabbath day’ refers to the religious day of rest whereby God had finished creating the world and respites. This is ironic as it is as though Gods creation of human life is being undone i.e. death of the children. This therefore relates to the religious theme of our plot without giving too much away, captivating the audience to find out more.

Before we had decided on this title we had a number of initial film names with to suit our story and genre, the option are as follow:

The Unholy
The Crucified
The Haunting of Molly Bell
Unholy
The Reaping
Unsanctified
Illuminati
Sunday's Child
Sinners

However, after much though we decided that many of these names would give too much away about the plot of our film, i.e. the religious reference. We also faced a problem, as ‘The Unholy’ was already a film made during the 1980’s which meant we were unable to use it. After further discussion we carried out a small scale questionnaire asking people which they thought best suited our plot and worked well as a film title.

Editing Process

We downloaded the original font style from the website Datfont, we choose the font 'pieces of eight'. As you can see the style of the font itself resembles a Gothic representation with its bold letters and sharp edges. We then copied this font into the program Fireworks. We chose this program as we all had previous experiences in the editing of both text and images from our previous year studying media. As you can see below we applied a vein texture onto the lettering, this texture resembles a torn tissue, especially due to the layer colour of a bloody red. The title now clearly represents the genre of the film as well as an indication to its content, ie. blood, gore etc.

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