03 Aug What’s In A Name?
As we get closer to having a finished film, we’ve started to focus increasingly on our plans for it. While strategizing about distribution, we are also thinking about presentation. The most important aspect of presentation is the name. For at least a year we have been working with the title “Battle of Brooklyn.” However, we have become increasingly dissatisfied with this title for a number of reasons.
We want a title that keys in on the themes of the film, but one that is open enough to allow people to have a broad set of expectations. The idea of “home” is important, but so is the idea of standing up for principles. Here are a few that we have tossed around:
No Place Like Home
Home Game
Home
A Home
We Live Here
In terms of distribution, we have to think of a broader set of problems. Films with names that begin with “A” do much better on VOD than others because they are the first ones that people scroll through. We also have to think of other projects with similar names; “Home Movie\” might have been a great title if there wasn’t an awesome doc with this title already. Web site availability is another big factor. As we brainstormed this morning we got a very rude awakening after typing in weliverhere.com – WARNING- it’s a porn site without a splash page. This actually makes it hard for us to consider this name. It would be terrible if the film began to get some press and people started searching for it and ended up on this page.
We look forward to your ideas and votes on the ones that we have come up with- as well as those that you suggest.
Toby Barlow
Posted at 11:45h, 03 AugustHome Front
A Broken Home
Breaking and Entering
Homage
Stealing Home
Home Base
Broken Homes
Not At Home
We Were Here
Where We Were
The Last Place We Called Home
diana2mo
Posted at 11:57h, 03 AugustSome ideas:
– We Live Here: The Battle Against Destructive Development
– We Live Here: The Devastation of Downtown Brooklyn
– Heartbroken in Brooklyn
– Home is Where the Heart Broke
– No Longer Home: The Devastation of Downtown Brooklyn
Sherry Beilinson
Posted at 14:45h, 03 AugustA HOUSE IS NOT A HOME( AS IN THE HOUSE THAT FORREST RATNER BUILT)
A SHATTERED HOME
Matteo
Posted at 16:55h, 03 AugustHello,
No matter what your title will be, it has to have the word “Brooklyn” in it. The community fight over the AY project was much more than just the right to retain your place from the abusive hands of eminent domain and involved people from the whole borough, not just those in the proximity of the project footprint.
As a matter of fact, George F Will chose exactly the words “”Battle of Brooklyn” to start his article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101367.html
However, your observation about the name that do well on VOD is interesting, for this reason I would call it “A battle in Brooklyn”
or “A battle in Brooklyn: enter the Arena”
or “A battle in Brooklyn: David vs the avid hands of power”
Hope this helps,
Matteo
LUCY KOTEEN
Posted at 17:38h, 03 AugustHOME RULE
DISPLACEMENT
A BATTLE WELL FOUGHT
COMMUNITY VS CORPORATION
WE WON’T GO QUIETLY
BROOKLYN SOLD (NAME OF A SONG BY MAURICIO ALEXANDER)
HYPE VS HOME
BULLDOZED
Mindy Fullilove
Posted at 18:21h, 03 AugustAround the corner, Sean and Alexa, friends of my daughter Molly, had painted a beautiful “home” on their building. I like that for the title. The graphic was splendid. Everything’s a porn site, I think, so I wouldn’t worry too much about that.
Matteo
Posted at 19:00h, 03 AugustAt a second thought, the name that I’d choose is definitely:
“A Battle of Brooklyn: Enter the Arena”
Lawrence C. Starr
Posted at 19:34h, 03 AugustHow about:
A Home Lost
A Home, A Tragedy
A Home and a Hole In The Ground
Stealing Home – A Modern Fable
Just a few off the top of my head.
Andreas Horvath
Posted at 02:00h, 04 AugustHey Michael,
this comes from Salzburg, Austria, so I am not sure I qualify or you even give a shit, but yeah: “Battle of Brooklyn”, definately! Without any amendments. Especially when you think of intl. fests and audiences. Btw, how about “Battle for Brooklyn”?
Anyway, looks like the end of a real longtime project. I remember you were talking about this when I visited you in 2004. Good luck with it, curious to see the film!
Andreas
Michael
Posted at 10:26h, 04 AugustThanks andreas
great to hear from you .
new trailer up soon
The Doors Spin Wildly - NEWS
Posted at 10:11h, 04 August[…] exist in the armed services and financial fields. A lot of the issues at play in our film, “A Battle in Brooklyn” (click on link to see discussion of title) have to do with the revolving door between developers […]
Eric McClure
Posted at 15:11h, 04 AugustHere are a few thoughts:
Brooklyn Dodge
Holdout
Not for Sale
Hands Off Our Home
The People vs. Bruce C. Ratner
Unfortunately already taken: Home Alone
David Thayer
Posted at 03:03h, 05 AugustHow about —
RAILROADED
— in reference to the railyards … although I admit that I also like BROOKLYN DODGE and BULLDOZED above as well —
Chad Claussen
Posted at 09:03h, 06 AugustHome: Ratner’s Domain
No Place Like Arena: Especially in Brooklyn
No Place Like Home: Expect in Brooklyn
Here are a few of the ones I came up with. I know they are not very good, but I hope you have some good inspiration coming up with a name and finishing it up.
David Goldstein
Posted at 14:32h, 08 AugustA Separate Piece of Brooklyn
A Home Grows in Brooklyn
The Artful Brooklyn Dodger
Broke-lyn
We Lived There
We Live…Where?
The Butcher, The Mayor and the Neighborhood-Breaker
Apocalypse Brown
Apocalypse Row
Apocalypse How
Apocalypse Cash Cow
Home and Dearth
We Can’t Go Home Again
Marty: Tale of a Big Fat Fucking Douchebag
David Goldstein
Posted at 14:42h, 08 AugustBroken Homes
Last Exit for Brooklyn
A Fast Exit for Brooklyn
Please stop me…I can go on all day.