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Does this title sound good?

The script is about a group of terrorists who commit their acts all over a city, to try to make society come to a truce with their beliefs. I was thinking First Wave or First Reign, since it's the first wave of terror acts. It's a to be continued story, but only if a it become successful enough to have a sequel of course. Any good?
 
Nah.
They ain't doin' nothing for me.

Too generic.

Is there a special protagonist or antagonist?
How about a special device or method the terrorists use?

BTW, whatever acts are committed all over any city, great or small, just makes the inhabitants leave and angry outsiders come in.
Bringing society to it's knees is only possible when EVERYONE EVERYWHERE is trapped.
When i was snoozing at my son's T-Ball game tonight I pretty much didn't care WTH was going on in Bumfuckistan where some a$$ just blew-up a bus full of one-eyed orphans parked outside the Goats-Heads-4-Less-Mart.
Sux2Bthem.
After the game we got pizza and went swimming at the pool.
 
Another title I had was Montreal Melodrama, kinda like the movie Manhattan Melodrama. The hero is a cop trying to stop the whole thing. There is a femme fatale villain, aside from other terrorists villains. I don't want to give away the terrorists method in the title though. It's more of a surprise.
 
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My pick of the three is First Reign. No harm in making a list of (literally) one hundred names, though. This crazy screenwriter guy who's book I read told me 10% of your time spend writing should be name searching.
 
My pick of the three is First Reign. No harm in making a list of (literally) one hundred names, though. This crazy screenwriter guy who's book I read told me 10% of your time spend writing should be name searching.

I like that. I'd say it's absolutely true.

I hate, hate, hate coming up with titles.

My vote would be for "First Reign", too, but it sounds way too much like a generic, direct-to-VOD/DVD title.
 
If you're worried about a sequel already you're going to fail. Don't leave your story without a full resolution of the conflict, this is not Hollywood, and you don't have the money to gamble.
 
Just use it as a working title now. Sometimes,you write the script and a name suddenly pops into your head..

My working title is "Losses". Thats for 1 webisode of my 6 planned ones only :)
 
Communion might work-only it might be associated with either a certain film/book about aliens, or about a girl wearing creepy masks who may be killing off people at her sisters communion (including said sister) ("Alice Sweet Alice, I believe Communion was the American title-or perhaps it was originally Communion and changed to Alice) ;)
 
Titles are the last thing I worry about.

Is this really true? It's something that I've heard a lot of writers say but I've always felt it's a form of artistic snobbery (no offence! :D ). If I were to guess I would reckon that most people are constantly thinking up titles as they write. A good title can make or break any piece of writing and it seems to me that it's almost impossible to suppress that part of my mind that sees the title on posters or big screens or book covers whilst I'm writing...

Not saying it's good to worry about the title, I just thinking that it's probably one of the more common things that writers obsess about :P
 
Is this really true? It's something that I've heard a lot of writers say but I've always felt it's a form of artistic snobbery (no offence! :D ). If I were to guess I would reckon that most people are constantly thinking up titles as they write. A good title can make or break any piece of writing and it seems to me that it's almost impossible to suppress that part of my mind that sees the title on posters or big screens or book covers whilst I'm writing...

Not saying it's good to worry about the title, I just thinking that it's probably one of the more common things that writers obsess about :P

I can only speak for myself, but I really don't give much thought to a title. There are a couple things I am working on at the moment and I have no clue as to what I want to call them. :) You guys saw one, and I am calling it A Comedy. At some point a name will suggest itself, but I'll worry about that when the time comes.
 
Is this really true? It's something that I've heard a lot of writers say but I've always felt it's a form of artistic snobbery (no offence! :D ). If I were to guess I would reckon that most people are constantly thinking up titles as they write. A good title can make or break any piece of writing and it seems to me that it's almost impossible to suppress that part of my mind that sees the title on posters or big screens or book covers whilst I'm writing...

Not saying it's good to worry about the title, I just thinking that it's probably one of the more common things that writers obsess about :P

Sometimes the title inspires the story for me. And certainly if I think of a title while writing I keep it in mind or use it as a working title. And sure a title is an important part of getting someone to watch something. I'm just saying I don't stress over not having a good title for a project at least until the script is done/in pre-production.
 
Start with a working title, but don't marry it.
Be as flexible in your titling as you are in your writing.
And rewriting.
And rewriting.
And rewriting... etc.
 
Sometimes the title inspires the story for me. And certainly if I think of a title while writing I keep it in mind or use it as a working title. And sure a title is an important part of getting someone to watch something. I'm just saying I don't stress over not having a good title for a project at least until the script is done/in pre-production.

I think you're forgetting that the OP is harmonica44...

That's a man who knows how to not stress over the details... ;)
 
If you're worried about a sequel already you're going to fail. Don't leave your story without a full resolution of the conflict, this is not Hollywood, and you don't have the money to gamble.

There is a full climax and resolution. After it ends I was going to write a to to be continued preview. So even though it shows what will happen next, and the same parts of the story, start up again, it still has a just as much of a resolution, to call it an ending.
 
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