Film Title

Deciding a title for our film was arguably one of the most challenging parts of the project. The reason for this was because we had to come up with a title that would both do justice with the genre and also give our film a title that would appeal to the target audience. So the first steps taken to point us in the right direction was to search for as many noir film titles that we could find to give us an idea of what the title should be similar to. Below are noteworthy examples of noir movies with titles that guided us in the right path:

From films like these we deduced a few things from the titles - the titles tended to be a statement of some sort which gave an indication of what the film was about. Also, more prevalent amongst other tittles such as Touch Of Evil (1958) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955), they gave a sense of a deeper and more cynical meaning to it.

All of this was key because we needed to come up with a title that was short and snappy, indicative and also set the mood of the film.

With ideas ranging from 'Betrayal' to 'A Man In Question', we eventually chose to use 'A Man In Question' and work on that. We did this because our main character is in fact in police custody being questioned for the crimes he is guilty of, so the title seemed appropriate, also it was coincidentally similar to The Woman In Question (1950) which is also another noir film from the era.

Although the story revolves around one main character, through analysis we realised that the supporting cast had a subsurface story which all affects our protagonists' story. All of them to some extent face situations in which they are guilty of committing something, whether it be cheating or unlawful practices. So the title of the film was adapted to A Question Of Guilt which is now our final film title choice. We felt that this would work exceptionally well as it gives the audience things to think about, and along with the posters that we have planned to create, we felt that the title of our film really suits our film itself.