Small Update!

Character Names and Film Title

Character Names:

Last class, my partners Andrea and Alex, and I compared our research on names and came up with these final names for our characters:

Valerie(Val): For person A, the main character in this film, and the older sister of Person B.

Mara: For person B, Valerie's little sister, who eventually passes away in the film opening.

Isabella(Bella): For person C, the friend of both sisters.

    Research for both Valerie and Mara can be accessed here, in one of my previous blogs. The name Isabella, however, was proposed by one of my partners, and we decided on using the name as it is a very common name, and has a meaning that ties back to friendship.

Film Title:

    I'm excited to say that Alex, Andrea, and I have finally decided on our film title! We decided on the name 'Dear Mara'. The name of the film is meant to reinforce that the entire piece will be about Valerie overcoming the loss of her sister. We will be hinting at this title in our piece as we plan to briefly show Mara writing a letter addressed to her sister in the film opening(which the audience can later assume is something of a suicide note, leaving her last words for her sister to read). By titling the piece 'Dear Mara', the audience can make the inference that the film will be about Valerie overcoming her sister's passing, and that she would write a letter displaying her emotions after her passing and her journey overcoming this tragedy. Obviously, we are creating film OPENING and not an entire movie, and therefore we thought that using this title would be a creative way to hint to the audience what the contents of the film would theoretically be.