[Insert Title Here]

Trees dispensed a number of handy tips on developing a movie idea. But I think one was missing: coming up with a good title.

Defining your genre, concept, and premise are all essential, of course, but a good title is no less so. It’s how a movie is identified before you see it. It’s how you recommend it if you liked it, or how you warn people if you hated it. The title is such an integral part of the movie’s identity that it’s hard to proceed into the writing without a good one. Sure you can add one later, drawing from some theme that developed as you were writing, but that’s putting a the cart before the horse. A more accurate analogy would be that it’s like throwing a bunch of ingredients together and waiting to see what comes out before calling it a cake or a casserole. You have to set out to make a cake. You have to have a title..

No, the script I’m working on doesn’t have a title.

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