The Movie Title that I Dislike

I dislike...
The movie title for Titanic for several reasons, too. I feel like when I saw this movie title for the first time, I knew almost too much about what was going to happen in the movie. I felt like this movie title could have been more "secretive" about what would happen in the movie. It's obvious that anyone that knows anything about the history of the Titanic knows that it's going to sink at the end of the movie, but some of the scenes in the movie were fabricated by the director, and could have been left a little more mysterious. I think that spotlight on Rose and Jack is a little less powerful in this movie title, which I wish had been different, since there is a love story behind the making of the film. Rose and Jack should have been highlighted a litle more in the movie title. The movie does have action in it, especially when the ship is going down, but I feel like too much of the ship sinking was shown in the movie title. I would have liked to save the ship-sinking sequence of events entirely for the movie itself.

Update on Progress Report

Just an update from earlier...

Ok, so I found out that Sharon overslept this morning and that is why she missed our planned meeting. I totally understand and have no problem rearranging another time to work on things.

I am not too nervous because we talked and we seem to still be on the same page. We are going to get together in the next few days, before Fall Break, to solidify some of our plans and choose a new date for our PR event. The one that we originally chose, November 2, is going to be too early. We want to make sure that everything is ok and ready to go. :)

Progress Report

I was supposed to have a one-on-one meeting with my partner, Sharon, in the library for a couple of hours so that we could gather our current and progressive thoughts and goals for our project up to this point, but Sharon did not show up. I am assuming that something happened that prevented her from coming, perhaps with her son Cameron.

Before I try to produce a progress report on my own, I will try to contact Sharon and schedule another time to meet with her, perhaps today after class around 5:00.

For my personal input, the following are my goals for the next week and a half:

1. Contact the school we are collecting books for. Talk to a librarian.
2. Contact the pizza company of our choice. I am thinking about using Colombo's Pizza because they are always interested in doing volunteer activities and perhaps they will donate an Atlas-size pizza for us to use. This is a 28 inch pizza that feeds almost 20 people.
3. I want to try and see if any local bookstores have any books that they can donate. Perhaps any of the Salvation Army locations, or even the Robert M. Cooper library will have books that they want to get off of their hands, but don't want to throw away.
4. I want to begin designing invitations for our classmates.
5. I want to continue work on the design of flyers, a facebook group, and the email we are sending out to the student body.
6. One thing that I am working for is getting a small advertisement put in The Tiger. I want the advertisement to look inviting, so that students realize that students are conducting the collection, and that it is for a good cause.
7. I was trying to come up with a theme for our artistic design on our flyers, facebook group, and other publicity items; I think that some sort of general holiday theme would be cool. I don't want to do the stereotypical clip art pictures of books on our communication items, so I think Sharon and I have the potential to come up with something appealing. Two of my good friends are graphic design majors and are always looking small projects to give input on. I asked Rob if he would be willing to help us with t-shirts and he said he would love to. I also asked Keri if she could provide us with advice for our logo and she said she would be more than happy to. She is very talented with the tools that are used to create logos and is more than happy to teach Sharon and I to use them. Logos are one of Keri's strong points.

These are the things running through my mind right now, but I hope to hear from Sharon to get her feedback and suggestions.

Movie Titles: Like 'Em or Leave 'Em?

I have always enjoyed watching movie titles, but it wasn't until I enrolled in visual communications that I learned to appreciate them. I don't like all of the movie titles that I watch, but I like most of them. Movie titles are helpful to me, and anyone really, because they provide a brief synopsis of what the movie is going to be about. Here is one movie title that I like and and one movie title that I dislike:

I like...
The movie title for How To Lose A Guys in Ten Days for several reasons. First, I like this movie title because I like the type of movie that it is. It's romance/comedy. The title does a good job of conveying the main point of the movie without giving away any of the crucial parts of the scene, or the end of the movie. Most of the scenes that they show in the title leave the viewer hanging and wondering what ends up happening, which in effect, makes the viewer want to go see the movie. I also like how the title spotlights the main characters, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. Sometimes movie titles cram so many people into the title that viewer's cannot really decide whether they want to see if because of the actors, or if the movie would be bad because of the actors, if the movie is going to be changing from charater to character in a consistent manner. To me, only seeing a limited number of actors in the movie title is necessary as to not confuse a viewer and dissuade them from seeing the entire film. I do not think tthat every movie title should involve only a few leading actors, but I think that for this movie trailer, it was appropriate to focus on just the two leading characters to accent their relationship, which is what the movie is ultimately about.